Software QA Engineer
Job Summary
We're looking for a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to work on our web and mobile applications and partner alongside the Product and Development teams. This is an opportunity to work at a customer-driven company with a collaborative team that values technical excellence, innovation, and creativity while working together and having fun.
Responsibilities
- As a team member, engage in both formal meetings and informal conversations with colleagues to gain a thorough understanding of the product's functionality and overarching purpose. Utilize these insights to develop comprehensive test documentation and strategy.
- Use documentation and networking tools to determine whether bugs are caused by the server or client.
- Identify and document clear steps to reproduce bugs and work with the team to prioritize test cases
- Collaborate closely with Developers, Product Managers, and QA team to clarify inconsistencies between specifications, test cases, and product behavior.
- Make recommendations to improve product reliability, performance, and quality assurance best practices and processes
- Expand and improve automation scripts created in Maestro and Cypress frameworks
- Investigate, troubleshoot, and enter reproducible application issues into Jira
- Investigate and evaluate new testing technologies and products for web and mobile applications
Qualifications
- 5+ years professional experience of web and/or mobile testing for a consumer-facing product
- API expertise (REST) on how the client communicates to/from servers
- Experience maintaining and updating test plans/test suites in a very fast paced feature changing environment
- Ability to think outside of the box and beyond the obvious to uncover behind-the-scenes type bugs
- Strong experience with at least 2 of the following: JavaScript, Selenium, Cypress, Appium, Java, and Jenkins
- Act as a strong advocate for quality in the product development process
- Experience with defect tracking software (Jira)
- Ability to triage problems, prioritize accordingly, and propose a resolution
- BS/MS in computer science or equivalent work experience
Location: Menlo Park, CA (onsite 2 days/week)
Type: Full-time
Salary Range: $110-130K (DOE)