Quality Automation Engineer

Summary

Join SMASH, a tech talent agency connecting professionals in Costa Rica and Colombia with US companies. We prioritize long-term relationships, focusing on cultural fit as well as technical skills. This remote position offers work-from-home flexibility and benefits including private medical insurance, an English academy, and business skills coaching. As a Quality Assurance professional, you will plan, design, and test applications, ensuring high-quality code and effective products. You will also collaborate with teams, analyze project plans, and report on testing results. This role requires 4+ years of software testing experience, familiarity with various testing methodologies and tools, and excellent communication skills.

Requirements

• 4+ years’ experience supporting and testing software products
• Experience with test methodologies
• Experience with Selenium
• Experience in working with agile or other iterative fast-paced projects
• Experience with website testing
• Experience with mobile application testing
• Familiar with Azure DevOps
• Familiar with automation frameworks tools
• Familiar with programming languages C#, .NET Core
• Good English and communication skills, team player, and strong attention to detail

Responsibilities

• Plans, designs, authors, and tests applications to maintain high-quality code and deliver a high-quality, effective product and documents all stages of the process including remedies
• Reproduces reported issues and documents clear reproduction steps
• Provides high-level technical diagnosis when problems are encountered by finding and tracking defects through to resolution
• Analyzes project plans and create custom test plans for each project
• Tests new vendor software compatibility and adapts to new software including bug tracking
• Uses application logs, data analysis, and correlation to existing documented issues
• Defines and reports on quality assurance information to management and stakeholders on results of testing and pertinent issues
• Interacts with others across the organization, both locally and remotely, in working to ensure that the product is delivered with high quality and adherence to the request
• Reviews, qualifies, and categorizes incoming issue reports, and prioritizes and balances demands of multiple priority items, and adapts
• Understands end-to-end software systems, from client to server and services interaction
• Identifies differences between established standards and user applications and suggests modifications to conform to standards
• Engages with various software projects in each level of its lifecycle and provide testing coverage of specified user stores
• Assists with release coordination
• Performs other duties as assigned
• Work with automation frameworks

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or related field

Benefits

• Work from home
• Private Medical Insurance
• English Academy for Employees and Relative
• Business Skills Coach – Certifications