What are the responsibilities and job description for the QA Engineer position at SmartBear?
Quality isn’t just a goal. It’s the whole point.
Our customers are under a lot of pressure to deliver great software. But to compress lifecycles, add features, and compete in a world where ‘every company is now a software company’ is hard. And one mistake can mean their reputation, even future. That’s why it’s our mission to help. At any part of their software development lifecycle (SDLC), we provide the tools and discipline to focus on quality while streamlining their processes. So our customers can create and deploy software that works as designed – especially when it’s needed most. And we’re looking for people to join us.
Interested in Software Development? Eager to learn the ins-and-outs of Software QA? SmartBear is looking for a QA Engineer with an entrepreneurial mindset to help lay the groundwork ensuring our LoadNinja technology is of the highest quality before it reaches our users hands. Having an interest in Software Development is a must as you will work with Developers, Product Managers, and UX closely. As a QA Engineer you play a critical role in technical implementation, customer usage models, and the development of test plans and test suites that approximate real-world environments and regression tests.
LoadNinja is a cloud-based load testing solution aimed at producing web application load tests in an easy-to-use interface in real browsers. LoadNinja enables users to create tests in minutes with no coding skills needed. As a QA Engineer for LoadNinja, you will build and shape development practices on a tangible industry, a leading functional testing product with exposure to modern technology stacks and micro-services development tools. You will have the the ability to mold the QA footprint for a growing innovative product.
Responsibilities:
- Analyze business requirements to determine completeness, dependencies and impact on existing product functionality
- Take a leading role in defining acceptance criteria for new feature work
- Write and maintain acceptance test scenarios for different functional areas of the product
- Exploratory testing of feature components beyond the scope of agreed acceptance tests
- Manual regression testing of integrated components for each production release
- Write, grow, and maintain automated regression tests
- Monitor and debug automation test failures
- Gain an understanding of business concepts and how users use the product
- Work with Customer Support, Product, and developers on effective issue resolution
- Take leadership in advocating test process within the scrum team and guide developers in testing best practices
Qualifications:
- 3 years experience in software testing/test automation
- Strong knowledge of SDLC (particularly agile) and testing principles
- Passionate about quality in both the development process and final product delivered
- Keen interest in understanding how software/the product works
- Ability to analyze issues in detail and help determine root cause
- Excellent communication skills and an ability to work with remote teams
- Good documentation skills when using project management and test tools e.g. JIRA, Confluence
- Knowledge of a programming language e.g. JavaScript, Node.js a plus
- Experience with test automation tools such as Selenium, Cypress a plus
- Knowledge of Bash/Linux and network skills a plus
- Experience with source code management tools e.g. GitHub, SVN a plus
- Exposure to CI tools e.g. Jenkins a plus
About SmartBear
At SmartBear, we focus on your one priority that never changes: quality. We know delivering quality software over and over is complicated. So our tools are built to streamline your process while seamlessly working with the products you use – and will use. Whether it’s TestComplete, Swagger, Cucumber, ReadyAPI, Zephyr, or one of our other tools, we span from test automation, API lifecycle, collaboration, performance testing, test management, and more. Whichever you need, they’re easy to try, easy to buy, and easy to integrate. We’re used by 15 million developers, testers, and operations engineers at 24,000 organizations – including world-renowned innovators like Adobe, JetBlue, FedEx, and Microsoft. Wherever you’re going, we’ll help you get there. Learn more at smartbear.com, or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, or Facebook.
Candidates must have the ability to work permanently in the country without restriction. Please include following consent into your application: "Wyrażam zgodę na przetwarzanie moich danych osobowych w celu rekrutacji, jak również na potrzeby przyszłych rekrutacji, zgodnie z art. 6 ust. 1 lit. a Rozporządzenia Parlamentu Europejskiego i Rady (UE) 2016/679 z dnia 27 kwietnia 2016 r. w sprawie ochrony osób fizycznych w związku z przetwarzaniem danych osobowych i w sprawie swobodnego przepływu takich danych oraz uchylenia dyrektywy 95/46/WE (ogólne rozporządzenie o ochronie danych)".
SmartBear is an equal employment opportunity employer and encourages success based on our individual merits and abilities without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, ancestry, mental or physical disability, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, medical condition, sex, sex stereotyping, pregnancy (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), or any other legally protected status.
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