Senior Quality Assurance Engineer vacancy at Digitally Imported Inc

Description of the job

Seeking

The Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer is responsible for ensuring the quality and integrity of all mobile applications, front-end and back-end products through the development and execution of software testing, planning and documentation. The QA Engineer monitors processes and procedures in product development and design under the guidance of the QA Team Lead and the Product Owner.

This is a telecommute position. We are headquartered in Denver, USA but our team is distributed all over the world. Perfect for those digital natives looking for the flexibility of working remotely. Importantly, the person who lands this position needs to love working with people and love music.

Responsibilities and Accountability

• Plan, execute and communicate work on several mobile and web applications within our portfolio of products.
• Perform functional and non-functional testing of software products.
• Investigate and report defects found during development and reported by a support team.
• Design, implement, execute and debug tests cases and s.
• Validate and document completion of testing and development.
• Automate test cases (we use Postman + JS s for API, Ghost Inspector for Web, and currently we’re implementing Appium for mobile apps).
• Verify bug fixes on staging and production environments.
• Participate in requirement analysis activity to ensure that the requirements are complete, clear and consistent.
• Other duties as assigned.

Core Competencies and Experience

• 5+ years’ experience in software development with emphasis on quality assurance methodologies and testing
• Bachelor’s in software engineering, computer science or related field, or equivalent experience
• Proficiency within our technology stack from a QA perspective (Backend in Ruby/Rails; iOS app in Swift, Android app in Kotlin, Web sites are using Marionette.js), ability to work across all of application layers (Web apps, mobile native apps, databases, API etc).
• Understanding of software project development concepts and quality control methodologies.
• Passion for music
• Communicate clearly in written English

Desirable Skills

• Strong technical skills and experience in:
• Working with mobile logging/debugging tools (ADB, Android Studio, Xcode)
• Working with proxy tools, e.g. Charles
• Git/Github for source control
• API testing
• Test automation experience (Web / Mobile / Backend) will be a big plus

Personal Attributes

• Excellent decision-making and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work in a remote team environment
• Self-driven, organized and motivated to deliver kick-ass results