Job description

We are seeking a rigorous and detail oriented QA engineer for our AP and Pre-AP software product.   You must reside in the US to apply.  We are a fully distributed and international team though 1/3 of us are in Boston Metro area.  S/he will have the opportunity to work on mission critical software that will impact 3-5 million students in 2019. 

Requirements:

• Proven experience in understanding complex user needs with multiple stakeholders


• Proven examples of generated detailed requirements documentation, acceptance criterias, test scenarios, test runs and sprint bug reports


• Extremely metric oriented and strive for repeatability across the QA team


• 3+ years of QA experience


• 3+ years experience with API testing, UI testing, end to end testing and various types of manual testing.


• 3+ years experience QA’ing high-availability enterprise software a plus


• 3+ years experience with Databases (SQL or noSQL) to manipulate, load and delete test data


• Experience with Selenium testing and rigorously combining automated and manual testing striving for 100% use case coverage


• Fearlessly diving into SQL or log analysis


• Ability to clearly document bugs, screen shots, console logs and bug replication steps so developers can rapidly fix bugs


• Always updating test scenarios and test runs with latest requirements and acceptance criteria


• Educating developers on past bugs so that they can decrease mistakes in future


• Ability to communicate with devs in technical terms on browser exceptions, API errors, HTTP status codes and application latency


• Understanding of load testing is a plus


• Experience with apache bench is a plus


• Python based automation is a plus


• Strong Agile Process Experience


• Experience with continuous integration, test driven development, behavior driven development


• Ability to dive deep into technical issues and identify whether a bug is front end or back end related


• Strong verbal and written communication skills


• Comfortable with github and merging pull requests


• Experience in debugging performance issues in docker, kubernetes and AWS ECS containers is a plus


• Experience in debugging performance issues with javascript and reactjs or other SPA architecture a plus


• Desire to continuously, learn, improve and apply new technologies that will increase operational efficiency and effectiveness


• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent a plus