Quality Engineer

Summary

Join Apollo.io as a QE Engineer and contribute to quality engineering initiatives across the engineering organization. Collaborate with product development engineers and SREs to build automation testing practices. Take ownership of your work, leveraging creativity, communication, and collaboration to solve problems. The role involves automation testing, internal tools ownership, project tasks, and cross-functional collaboration. Apollo.io offers a supportive and collaborative work environment where your contributions matter and your career can thrive. The company is a leading go-to-market solution trusted by millions globally and is backed by top-tier investors.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience as Software QA Engineer
• 2+ years of relevant experience in a PLG Environment
• Experience and good understanding of automation testing and frameworks like Cypress, Selenium, Cucumber, Playwright or Rspec
• Exposure to modern backend programming languages - Java, Python or Ruby (at least one of them)
• Experience with JavaScript and/or Typescript
• Expert knowledge of software testing, quality improvement, quality process, quality assurance methodologies, and best practices
• Experiences in web services, batch/extract file processing, microservice api level testing
• Good experience in Agile testing methodologies and best practices

Responsibilities

• Automation Testing
• Adhere to all aspects of QE processes and methodologies and ensure effectiveness and alignment to industry best practices
• Achieving QE objectives and deliverables to customers based on quality standards
• Design and implement automated test cases using frameworks like Cypress or Playwright, based on product requirements
• Prepare, review, and maintain testing documents (test plan, test cases, test reports,) to ensure complete test coverage
• Manage proper execution by the QE team on different types of testing (functional, integration, end-to-end, performance, etc)
• Internal Tools Ownership
• Building QE dashboard to report health metrics of code quality and testing coverage
• Enhancing Synthetic monitoring practices with tools like NewRelic
• Work closely with DevOps to support and troubleshoot test environments and coordinate parallel release testing
• Supporting engineers on internal tools, systems, and processes
• Project Tasks
• Prepare and maintain test plans, test cases, and execution reports to ensure full coverage and traceability
• Provide task prioritization, project-level estimates, and planning support for feature development
• Use of modern project management software such as JIRA to organize epics, stories and tickets and track progress
• Requirements gathering required for projects
• Manage or prepare customer demo presentations for project deliverables when needed
• Breaking larger tasks down into smaller tasks and identifying the order in which they should be completed
• Using agile project management techniques like stand-ups and weekly sprint planning
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Communicate technical ideas to software developers in written and verbal formats
• Provide strategic testing initiatives for projects to introduce efficient techniques and test productivity improvements
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering and global teams to align with organizational goals
• Manage risks and deliverables to ensure that the testing activities remain within agreed scope, schedule, budget, and quality standards

Preferred Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related qualifications
• Modern Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment technologies and techniques
• Synthetic Monitoring and Metrics gathering with tools like NewRelic, GCP Logging, Datadog
• Familiarity with Linux Containers and Virtualization (Docker)
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker Compose
• Strong problem-solving abilities and technical reasoning
• Ability to work cross-functionally with other engineering teams
• Strong interest in learning new and emerging technologies
• Software Testing or Quality related certification is a plus
• Knowledge of microservices architecture
• Knowledge of the challenges faced by software engineers in a modern engineering department