Senior QA Engineer

This is a remote position.  Thank you for your interest in our Senior QA (Evergreen) position.  

Ad Hoc is a digital services company that helps the federal government better serve people. Our teams use modern, agile methods to meet the needs of our users while closing the gap between consumer expectations and government.   

Work on things that matter

Our teams connect Veterans with services designed for their needs, help millions of people access affordable health care, and support important programs like Head Start. As we work with agencies to deliver critical services, we’re also changing how the government thinks about and uses technology. 

Built for a remote life

Ad Hoc is remote-first and remote-always. We’ve designed our culture, communications, and tools to support a nationwide team. Being remote allows Ad Hoc to bring the best people onto our teams and give them the freedom to create a work environment that fits their lives. Maybe you need to adjust your schedule to care for your family or take a bike ride. At Ad Hoc, that’s welcomed. 

Committed to high expectations and a welcoming culture

Ad Hoc values acceptance, accountability, and humility. We aren’t heroes. We leave our egos at the door to learn from our mistakes and improve the process for the next time.. We build small, inclusive teams to bring the best of consumer technology to the problems of government.

Primary Responsibilities: 

In this role, you will serve as an experienced individual contributor within a team, with the expectation that you will further develop your leadership, guidance and mentoring skills. With minimal oversight from leadership, you will be responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule and delivery requirements. A Senior Quality Assurance Engineer impacts the long-term goals of the program, while contributing to the development of the program’s engineering strategy. You may serve as the discipline's primary lead when working with stakeholders and utilize strong influential skills to drive improvements in engineering processes and practices. Primary expectations of a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer include: 

• Strong influential skills to propose and evaluate multiple approaches to technical and process problems
• May lead small, less critical, or temporary team structures and projects
• Presents testing strategy, results, risks, etc. to clients, stakeholders, partners, and other engineers
• Demonstrates expertise, accountability, and ownership for testing strategies, tools, and frameworks for the program
• Able to lead the development of a variety of test suites and partner with the team on optimizing them within their software development lifecycle
• Designs and maintains information dashboards that inform the program on multiple facets and trends of quality (defects, load testing, etc.)
• Monitors coverage of quality test suites (automated and manual) and builds plans to fill gaps, directing junior staff as needed
• Develops program testing strategies for teams to follow that are tailored to the technical stack and skills of the team
• Participates in planning and design sessions, informing team decisions on architecture and implementation that enable testing strategy, including automation.
• Actively participates in design and ensures building systems that are testable in the outset
• Participates in technical interviews with new candidates
• May serve as a mentor to other junior level team members

Basic Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree and 7 years of experience
• Experience establishing and evolving QA processes and tools
• Experience creating long term plans for improvement and delivering on them with out a lot of oversight or guidance
• Ability to think big-picture, but still work hands on

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Familiarity with complex Government environments
• Experience in the following areas:
  • Manual exploratory testing
  • Automated functional testing
  • Continuous testing
  • Data testing
  • Performance testing
  • Accessibility testing
  • Cross-functional requirements testing
• Strong experience with JavaScript
• Experience with automation testing tools such as Cypress or Selenium
• Experience with GitHub Actions, CI/CD process tools such as Jenkins or CircleCI
• Experience with RestAPI development and maintenance
• Experience and understanding of agile methodologies
• Experience collaborating with external teams and stakeholders
• Exceptional attention to detail

To learn more about working at Ad Hoc, please visit: https://adhocteam.us/join/

Benefits

• Company-subsidized Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Use What You Need Vacation Policy
• 401K with employer match
• Paid parental leave after one year of service

Ad Hoc LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, pregnancy, disability, work-related injury, covered veteran status, political ideology, marital status, or any other factor that the law protects from employment discrimination.

Ad Hoc job descriptions feature the starting range we reasonably expect to pay to candidates who would join our team with little to no need for training on the responsibilities we've outlined above. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide range of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and responsibility. The range of starting pay for this role is $113,900 - $135,000 and information on benefits offered is here. Our recruiters will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements.

job reference:  2259

Salary : $113,900 - $135,000