Instructure is hiring a
Quality Assurance Tester

Summary

At Instructure, as a Quality Assurance Engineer, you will maintain top-notch quality and performance for APIs, web apps, and interfaces by creating a detailed quality assurance plan. You will work in small cross-functional teams, overseeing test strategies, conducting manual and automated testing, identifying security vulnerabilities, and contributing to release management processes.

Requirements

• Experience in implementing and improving quality practices in a microservice, cloud architecture environment
• Proficient in software development and delivery practices with a deep grasp of software quality and CI/CD release management
• Demonstrated ability to drive a quality assurance program and manage change effectively
• Experience with security testing and understanding of security standards and challenges
• Proficiency in SQL and experience with a variety of testing tools (e.g., Selenium, JMeter, K6, Postman)
• Ability to work collaboratively with diverse teams, including remote and geographically distributed members
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to communicate effectively
• A continuous learner, keeping up with new practices and technologies in quality assurance
• Experience in an Agile, Lean, DevOps organization and culture

Responsibilities

• Oversee the creation and execution of test strategies, plans, cases, and summary reports
• Lead manual acceptance API and UI/UX testing
• Develop, document, and maintain functional test cases, data validation, and automated scripts
• Execute and evaluate manual and automated test cases, documenting results and collaborating in an Agile environment with rapidly changing requirements
• Identify security vulnerabilities such as injection attacks, authentication bypasses, and conduct comprehensive security testing
• Serve as a Quality expert on your team assisting with troubleshooting and defect resolution
• Coordinate with your delivery team to explore automating manual testing and supporting user acceptance testing
• Operates within an environment utilizing tools such as Drone.io , AWS cloud technologies, GitHub, SumoLogic, Grafana, Selenium, and JMeter or K6 among others
• Contribute to release management processes, working closely with your team on deployment and version control tasks

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience
• Quality Assurance and Testing Certifications, such as ISTQB (International Software Testing Qualifications Board) Certification, Certified Software Quality Engineer (CSQE), or Certified Software Tester (CSTE)

Benefits

• Excellent benefits and perks, including access to our Modern Health Platform, PTO, maternity/paternity leave, childcare assistance, fitness and well-being allowances
• IMacs or Macbooks
• Work with a tight knit team who embrace innovation and are committed to being excellent at what they do