QA Automation Engineer

Summary

Join FORM as a QA Automation Engineer and collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to ensure high-quality software releases. You will be responsible for testing user stories across various products, developing comprehensive test plans, and providing regular status updates. A significant part of your role involves establishing QA best practices and creating scalable automated tests. While manual testing will be part of your responsibilities, your contributions to automation will be crucial. You will work closely with the Support team to resolve customer-reported issues efficiently. Success in this role requires strong communication, attention to detail, and a collaborative team spirit.

Requirements

• Be capable of testing APIs and data contracts that may not have a GUI
• Be comfortable coding and can script or automate tests when applicable
• Be familiar with regression testing web applications and/or mobile applications
• Know how to identify edge cases and can surface and test for such scenarios
• Understand the value in planning and can help the team account for such edge cases before work even begins
• Be able to differentiate symptoms from root cause and can rapidly diagnose and troubleshoot real-world problems quickly and without a lot of context or support
• Be able to wrap your head around complex systems and understand how to test both individual parts and the system as a whole
• Take the initiative to ensure projects are kept moving forward and communicate any blockers clearly to your team and stakeholders
• Understand that software development is a team sport, and QA isn’t simply just pointing out your teammates’ mistakes
• Possess strong verbal and written communication skills
• Have experience with different types and levels of testing and understand the value each brings – post live verification, regression, unit, integration, etc
• When things break — and they will — be eager, and able, to help diagnose and fix things

Responsibilities

• Test user stories across a variety of products
• Develop organized test plans
• Communicate status updates across teams
• Maintain a strong awareness of overall product stability through automation
• Help the QA Team establish best practices and create scalable, automated tests

Preferred Qualifications

• Have at least 3 years of experience in software application testing and quality control
• Be able to jump immediately into our toolset: Google Cloud, Cypress, SQL, Ruby, and Go
• Be able to work with command line tools when your work requires it
• Have worked with agile teams and be familiar with JIRA or other ticketing systems
• Understand serverless architecture and the complexities in testing such a system
• Have worked in a fast-paced environment where commitments matter!

Benefits

• Ability to work remotely
• Direct contract with a US-based company
• Competitive compensation level based on the level of knowledge and experience