What are the responsibilities and job description for the Quality Assurance Tester position at Valence?
Why Valence?
Valence is a digital strategy, design, and engineering firm that is centered on the client experience and informed by the future. We help businesses navigate their digital journey to unleash opportunity.
Valence has been named as one of the best places to work by the Puget Sound Business Journal every year since we were founded and has been recognized as one of the fastest growing businesses on the East Side.
Do you value quality, innovation, creativity, passion, collaboration, and growth?
We offer flexible options to work from home in select states or collaborate with your team at our Bellevue, WA office. Our culture is about continuous learning, direct communication, open doors, mutual respect at all levels, promoting innovation, and embracing creative ideas from everyone. At every phase of employment, we want our employees to feel seen and heard even before joining our team.
We offer fully paid medical benefits for employees and their families, 401(k) match, generous PTO, flexible work schedules, 12 weeks paid parental leave, and plenty of company and team connection events.
Valence is a dynamic place to build your career, innovate and learn. Come join us – let’s build potential together!
Overview:
Are you passionate about exploring new and emerging technologies and how they can be used to solve challenging problems? If so, then this may be the right opportunity for you. As a Quality Assurance Tester at Valence, you will work alongside a group of talented engineers, project managers and analysts defining and implementing end-to-end, leading-edge solutions for our enterprise clients. With Valence, you can work in a collaborative environment where you can influence direction and see the impacts of your contributions. We love to innovate and are looking for people with a passion for learning and growing their technical skills
In this role, you will:
- Act as a validation and quality assurance expert, reviewing & testing the functionality of newly developed solutions.
- Conduct requirement analysis, define test strategies and lead the execution of test plans and cases.
- Translating functional design requirements into test requirements.
- Work in an Agile environment.
- Take smart risks and champion new ideas.
We’d love to hear from you if you have:
- 2 years of experience testing cloud-based solutions on AWS or Azure.
- Proven history of setting up testing tools and integrating into developer workflows.
- Ability to provide insight and guidance on the creation, maintenance, and improvement of QA tools and processes.
- Experience with API testing, load, and performance testing via cloud platform tools.
- Experience testing distributed systems.
- Strong critical & creative thinking skills.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Have a passion for customer service, always striving to deliver an excellent experience to your clients & project stakeholders.
- Work hours are 9am to 5pm Pacific Standard Time
- Have experience in selenium, Jest, Mocha is a plus.
Things to keep in mind:
- You are authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis now and in the future.
- Must live in Idaho/ Oregon / Washington State / Texas or be willing to work on a 1099.
What we Offer:
- Fully paid medical/dental/vision benefits for you and your family
- 401(k)-fully vested immediately, with match up to 4% of salary contributions
- 19 days of PTO, plus 8 paid holidays
- Flexible work schedules and telecommute options.
- 12 weeks paid Parental Leave.
- Flexible Spending Plan for dependent care and, health care
- Short & Long-Term Disability fully paid for Life Insurance.
- Numerous company and team building events.
- Innovative work culture with chatbot HR tools and our own Valence crypto currency
WHAT WILL MAKE YOU SUCCESSFUL AT VALENCE?
You have a passion for innovation and technology. You have a sense of humor. You believe in the potential in everyone. You are ego-free. You're collaborative and value a work culture where great ideas can come from anyone.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, gender, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability.