Software QA Engineer
We're looking for a Software Quality Assurance Engineer to support our web and mobile products and services, and collaborate alongside Product, Development, and other members of the QA team.
Responsibilities:
- 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:
- 3+ years professional experience of web and/or mobile testing for a consumer-facing product
- Familiar with both manual and automation testing
- Strong experience with JavaScript and Jira
- Experience with Cypress and/or Maestro a nice to have
- 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
- BS/MS in computer science or equivalent work experience
Location: Menlo Park, CA
Type: Contract
Duration: 6-12 months, with possibility of extension
Pay Rate: $45-55/hr. W2