Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Summary

Join Appspace, a company passionate about creating better work experiences, and become a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer. In this role, you will be responsible for formulating test strategies, designing test cases, executing tests, and representing QA concerns in cross-functional meetings. You will also provide valuable end-user feedback and may lead a small team of QA engineers. The ideal candidate possesses a minimum of 5 years of experience in an agile software development environment and strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Appspace offers a variety of benefits, including competitive salaries, medical coverage, a 14-week maternity leave program, and flexible work schedules.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of working experience in an agile software development environment
• Good testing and analytical skills
• Passion for testing and improving product quality as well as introducing innovative testing methods
• Good understanding of Quality Assurance in an agile environment
• Strong organizational skills – Ability to handle a dynamic environment
• Ability to prioritize and multitask
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Initiative and ability to demonstrate a proactive approach to tasks
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to work under pressure and to deadlines

Responsibilities

• Plan, analyze, design, and develop test cases based on various requirements documentation using practical testing concepts to ensure adequate test coverage
• Perform functional/non-functional manual test execution and execute automated test scripts to ensure quality code releases
• Log defects and track to closure
• Take ownership of QA activities on assigned projects, follow through acceptance from the test scope analysis to acceptance of the test exit report
• Maintain and update test cases and test plans in a timely manner
• Record all test results and analysis to provide a high-level summary for areas tested
• Prepare and set up the required test environment and test data based on project requirements
• Lead a small team of QA Engineers to work on testing projects
• Communicate work progress and all (work-related) pertinent information in an accurate and timely manner to the Software QA Lead
• Perform other duties as assigned

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud-based software platforms i.e: Google Cloud Platform, RabbitMQ, MongoDb, Kubernetes, Microservices and etc
• Experience with REST API testing tools i.e: Postman, Swagger, SoapUI or similar
• Experience with UI automation scripting i.e Selenium, Playwright and etc
• Experience with Performance / Load testing i.e: Jmeter
• Experience with CI/CD tools i.e: Bamboo, Jenkins and Azure DevOps
• Experience with Test management tools ie: Zephyr, ALM or similar
• Experience with Mobile app testing (Android and iOS)

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• Mental health resources
• 14 week maternity leave program
• Transport/parking allowance
• 20 Days PTO
• Flexible work schedules
• Remote work opportunities
• Paid company holidays
• Appspace Fridays (No non-essential internal meetings scheduled)
• A casual dress work environment