Quality Engineer II

Summary

Join the Everbridge Engineering team as a Quality Assurance Engineer to design, develop, and maintain reusable test cases and scripts. Collaborate with engineers to integrate quality best practices into application development. Identify opportunities to enhance customer experience and reduce test cycle time through improved techniques and tooling. Responsibilities include manual testing, regression testing, defect detection and documentation, test environment maintenance, and test plan execution. You will also write test cases, debug basic problems, and update documentation. This is a 9-month fixed-term contract, remote position for New Zealand-based candidates only.

Requirements

• Excellent working knowledge of software testing methodologies , including the ability to write detailed test plans , test cases , and effectively debug issues
• Thorough understanding of QA best practices across the software development lifecycle
• Proven experience contributing to Agile/Scrum development teams , actively participating in sprint activities and quality deliverables
• Quick and independent learner — demonstrates the ability to identify information sources , grasp new technical concepts, and apply them effectively
• Self-sufficient and proactive — seeks additional knowledge when needed and avoids repetitive questions
• Experience Required : 2–3 years in a Quality Engineering or Software Testing role
• Contract Type : 9-month fixed-term contract
• Location : Remote – New Zealand-based candidates only

Responsibilities

• Manual testing and configuring test environments across different platforms
• Performing regression test cycles and smoke tests for releases
• Detecting software failures so that defects may be discovered and corrected
• Documenting anomalies and issues in a bug tracking tool
• Operating and maintaining test devices
• Writes test cases efficiently
• Understands technology related to product and can debug basic problems
• Demonstrates the ability to deploy and configure test environments
• Helping to design and execute test plans, recording and documenting results, and comparing to expected results
• Possesses basic domain knowledge needed to test products
• Updating documentation to ensure its accuracy
• Perform all reasonably related duties as assigned by the Employer
• Testing a portion of the product independently
• Detect and document software failures to a degree of detail that the failure can be reproduced and corrected
• Operate and maintain test environments and devices
• Design and execute test plans, recording and documenting results and measuring expected results
• Continuously review and update documentation to ensure it is accurate at all times
• Track and maintain defects, keeping up-to-date records
• Design and write test scripts and scenarios

Preferred Qualifications

Ideally possesses API test automation skills using Python and Pytest , or has the willingness and foundational understanding to grow into automation responsibilities