QA Test Engineer

It's our time to scale. It's your time to be part of something big.

Tulip's mission is bold. We're a team of experts who have worked with and for retailers over the past 20 years. We are driven to disrupt an entire industry and enable one of the world's largest job markets.

Tulip has built a retail mobile software platform that empowers leading retailers such as Mulberry, Chanel, Saks Fifth Avenue, Kate Spade, Coach, and Michael Kors to give mobile devices to their store associates so they can elevate service, sell more and provide a personalized experience.

Tulip is a place you come to make an impact, working with like-minded people to build something meaningful using the best technology. We are growing, and while lean is great, we need more people, energy, innovation and talent.

The QA Test Engineer will work closely with the Development and Product Management teams to assist in the definition of Product or Project requirements in addition to the test activities. You will be responsible for the development, implementation and execution of test cases, test data, tooling, test automation, inter-team communication, and test result communication.

What you will do:

• Obtain and maintain an advanced level of knowledge on the core testing tech-stack of Tulip:
  • Risk based testing and risk analysis
  • Test case design using the following techniques:
    • Boundary value analysis
    • Equivalence partitioning
    • Data Flow / Activity flow diagramming
    • State transition
    • Failure mode analysis
    • Decision tables

• • Gherkin for test case writing
  • API interrogation using Postman
  • Javascript, or other scripting language for test scripting
  • x-code for device log monitoring
  • SQL for database level verifications
  • GCP log analysis, Charles Proxy or Chrome Dev-tools for traffic monitoring
  • Knowledge and understanding of FTP
  • Linux command line

• Be hands-on with test planning, estimating, test design and test execution activities on the project or Sprint team.
• Chair and drive defect triage meetings and demos with internal and external stakeholders.
• Create, and maintain test suites, test runs and test plans using the company test case management software.
• Publish and communicate test status reports as required.
• Participate, influence and/or make Go, No-Go decisions based on evidence provided resulting from test activities.
• Design exhaustive functional, end-to-end and integration test scripts from user stories and other technical specifications.
• Test the underlying API web services using test harnesses or test stubs.
• Apply risk analysis methodologies that align with the project development approach.
• Prioritize testing tasks, ensure milestones, activities, tasks are completed as scheduled.
• Coordinate code deployment, upgrades and testing across numerous environments on various technology platforms.
• Communicate, or address scope changes that may impact testing (timeline, costs, risks).
• Automate repeatable tests using the company test automation framework.

What you bring:

• 4+ years of relevant professional experience testing web-based and mobile applications
• Experience with Eggplant Testing Tool is a huge bonus!
• Past experience with the following tools or similar:
  • Qase
  • Jira
  • Selenium Webdriver, Appium
  • Postman / API Fortress
  • Charles proxy / Fiddler / GCP logs
  • X-code for log monitoring and troubleshooting
• Experience in working in teams run using the Agile methodology.
• Proficient in deriving risks and designing test cases from user stories, use cases, requirements specifications, UX design diagrams, infrastructure design diagrams and other technical documents.
• Proficient in performing functional and integration (manual) testing with multi-tiered application environments.
• Proficient in developing test plans and strategies and can lead test execution activities for complex projects.
  
  

Bonus skills:

• Experience working in CI/CD in any cloud environment (AWS, GCP, Oracle, Azure)

Tulip has perks, career progress, and an intimate culture. We have:

• Embraced remote culture! Work remotely, permanently, and full-time.
• An excellent healthcare plan with no wait time, paid parental leave, and corporate gym rates.
• A culture of openness and idea generation. We have weekly all-hands and quarterly town halls. We pride ourselves on our transparency and keeping it real. From the most senior to the newest team member, we give you access to decision makers and career building work.
• The opportunity to grow and apply new skills be it hands-on or leadership. We prioritize diversity, inclusion, and building a community. We're a little weird but in a good way.
• Ability for employees in many roles to choose to work a 4½ or 4-day week.
• A “workcation” benefit that’ll let you work reduced hours in order to extend your vacations

Why we are awesome

Tulip is hungry and humble. When you join Tulip, you'll be part of a strong, thriving, diverse group of people who come from different disciplines, countries, and experiences. We do what we love and it shows in our unrelenting pursuit of affecting real change. We believe in investing in our people, building positive relationships with our customers, and treating our work like our craft. 

Tulip is at the cutting edge of technology. We work with big-name retailers. It's a chance to step up to solving complex technical problems and develop a deeper understanding of the retail world while being part of a niche startup style company. We don't fear failure; we embrace challenges. We're excited about taking the lesser known paths, using the open source tools and keeping up with the pace of evolving tech solutions. It's fun, it's fast, and it's future-focused.

Tulip gives back. Inspired, passionate, and committed people helped make us the successful company we are today. We challenge norms and put people before profits. Our CEO, Ali Asaria, created The Tulip Foundation, a charity controlled by all of us, the employees. We believe we can build a great company that changes the technical space while simultaneously giving back to society and the community.

Join us.

Feel like you can't tick all the boxes? If you have some of the skills and experience that we're looking for and are willing to use your talent to learn the rest, we encourage you to apply.

Tulip Retail is strongly committed to equal opportunities in employment. We welcome applications from all minority group members, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, members of sexual minority groups, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of Tulip Retail.

Tulip Retail welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available by request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.