QA Engineer

Summary

Join BeyondTrust, a leading cybersecurity SaaS company, as a QA Engineer and contribute to creating a safer world. You will work in an Agile Development Team, ensuring the quality of software before release. Collaborate with your team to develop and execute test plans, identify and report defects, and improve product quality. You will be responsible for various testing activities, including functional, non-functional, workflow, and exploratory testing. This role requires strong communication skills, adaptability, and a proactive approach to learning new technologies and skills.

Requirements

• Degree or equivalent in a business or IT related discipline or equivalent professional experience in a software testing environment
• Minimum of 2 years commercial software testing experience
• Solid understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Good understanding of TCP/IP (IPv4, IPv6)
• Knowledge of relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, etc.)

Responsibilities

• Collaboration with members of your Agile team to ensure software delivered by each sprint and each integration test meets both functional and non-functional requirements
• Collaboration with members of your Agile team in the creation and execution of test charters, test scripts, recording outcome of tests, reporting defects and identifying opportunities for product improvement
• In collaboration with the Agile team, definition and execution of increasingly complex workflow and scenario testing
• Execution of exploratory testing as required to meet the test plan
• Creation and maintenance of suitable test environments for all software testing to take place. This includes the set-up of the software being tested and populating or configuring test data. This may extend to testing of interaction with devices e.g. testing of interfaces and integration with other modules, products or interface test harnesses
• Perform static testing and impact assessment of development documentation
• Collaboration with members of your Agile team to ensure all user stories have enough acceptance criteria defined, from which test cases will be derived
• Assist with the population and maintenance of automated testing under the direction of the test automation specialists
• Analysis of customer support issues escalated to engineering
• Achieve agreed productivity targets in order to ensure tasks are delivered to schedule, reporting as early as possible to team or manager where delivery milestones cannot be met
• Work with the Agile team to achieve excellent levels of product quality prior to external release
• Work with the Agile team to produce any required documentation and training materials for the product(s) within your areas of responsibility
• Any other activities in support of the business which can be reasonably expected to fall within the capabilities of the employee

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Agile methodologies with Scrum experience a plus
• Solid understanding of Windows required with Linux and Mac experience a plus
• Knowledge of programming languages (Python, JavaScript, C#) and the ability to read code is a plus
• Experience with Cloud environments, and Cloud technologies (AWS / Azure) is a plus
• Experience with directory services (Entra ID, Active Directory, LDAP, SCIM, etc.) is a plus
• Experience with authentication services (SAML, Open ID Connect, etc.) is a plus
• Experience with web service communication protocols (SOAP UI, REST API) is a plus
• Experience with Bug Tracking/Project Management tools (Jira) is a plus
• Experience with Test Case Management tools (Jira X-Ray) is a plus