QA Engineer

Team: Quality Assurance Engineering

Location: United States (Remote)

Commitment: Regular Full-Time

Workplace Type: remote

To accomplish this you'll need

• 3+ years of QA experience with manual and automated testing of web-based applications, including experience with different kinds of testing like Integration testing, Black box testing, Security testing, Load testing, Regression testing etc.
• Strong experience with manually testing web-based applications, thinking out of the box and finding bugs, has an analytical approach to troubleshooting and owns quality.
• Hands-on experience with Cypress or Playwright (JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Strong understanding of Ruby (on Rails) codebases (comfortable reading and debugging).
• Proficiency with testing tools and frameworks, such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, JUnit, TestNG, or similar, API Automation tools like Postman, Rest Assured etc, preferably in Java/Ruby.
• Familiarity with modern web development technologies and frameworks, such as React, would be an asset.
• Experience with Version control systems like GIT, Test management tools like Jira, Testrails, CI/CD tools like Jenkins.
• Got solid knowledge of and practice in a variety of technology spanning, languages (e.g., Ruby, Java), databases (e.g., MySQL, Postgres), Operating systems (e.g., Mac, Windows, Solaris/Linux/AIX) 
• Experience leveraging AI tooling to improve quality and automation.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to think critically and identify edge cases.
• A proactive "shift left" mindset, focusing on early detection and prevention of defects.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with the Engineering and Product teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field. 
• Strong attention to detail and a commitment to delivering high-quality products.
• Exposure to the Payments industry and/or PCI/DSS would be a strong asset. 

What you need

Design & execute test cases: Design test strategies and implement/execute test cases in collaboration with other team members 
Build and maintain Cypress/Playwright tests.
Own projects and drive processes: Take ownership of projects, analyze process gaps and work actively towards building/aligning QA best practices. 
Be a product SME: Be a fast learner and strive towards becoming a product SME. 
Document regression cases and important workflows: Closely track the regression cases with new releases, add regression cases and feature workflows to their document stack to keep it updated. 
In Sprint Automation: Partner with Engineering to ensure adequate automation coverage is implemented.
Partner across teams: Collaborate with Product managers, Engineers, Customer care and DevOps to finalize requirements, identify real-time use cases and improve test effectiveness. 

What you will bring to the team

• Attention to details: Pays great attention to even minute details while testing and raises it with the concerned people.
• Curiosity: Exhibit investigative attitude to know more, wanting to explore further, wanting to discover the unknowns, put efforts to deviate from a logical approach to uncover issues.
• Customer obsession: Driven by the opportunity to solve customer (external and internal) problems and always looking for ways to deliver products with the best of quality.
• Collaboration: Personable and approachable, working across cross-functional teams and gaining confidence in others regarding your expertise. 
• Follow-through: Comfortable working independently, heads-down at times, with a strong sense of ownership and accountability. Hyper detail-oriented and able to juggle multiple tasks and priorities. 
• Flexibility: Savvy and nimble, quick to catch onto new tech and systems, juggling both the needs of our customers and our products and services.