Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Summary

Join Arkestro, a fast-growing tech company, as an experienced quality assurance engineer. You will play a key role in developing QA processes, building increased capabilities and enhancements to the Arkestro platform, and ensuring software quality throughout the SDLC. Responsibilities include building regression automation scripts, manually testing software, executing various testing types, documenting feature behavior, identifying and escalating risks, collaborating with product and customer-facing teams, and participating in planning and on-call rotation. The ideal candidate possesses at least 5 years of experience in software quality assurance and automated testing, strong communication skills, and experience with programming languages like Javascript, Typescript, Gherkin, SQL, and Ruby/Rails. Arkestro offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including comprehensive health insurance, 401k matching, unlimited PTO, a remote-first work environment, and professional development opportunities.

Requirements

• At least 5 years experience in a software quality assurance role
• At least 5 years experience in automated testing
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Possess a mindset focused on holistic quality
• Experience with programming languages such as Javascript, Typescript, Gherkin, SQL, Ruby/Rails

Responsibilities

• Build regression automation scripts that support app functionality
• Manually test software for validation and accuracy based on defined set of criteria
• Execute smoke, regression, integration, performance and other testing types to ensure proper behavior of software
• Record detailed documentation of feature behavior
• Record pass/fails conditions of tests and correlates failures to bug identification
• Identifies and escalates any risk to quality of the product or the process
• Collaborates with the product team to ensure quality throughout the SDLC and product release cycles
• Collaborates with customer-facing teams to incorporate user feedback in the testing strategy
• Participate in refinement and estimations of effort to promote accurate planning
• Utilize Github to maintain automation repositories, run custom scripts, and facilitate automated quality practices
• Participate in On-Call rotation

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with automated testing frameworks such as Jest/Puppeteer, Playwright, Postman, Jmeter or any other object-oriented based automated testing framework
• Experience with testing support functionalities such as Github Actions, Lambdatest, Sendgrid, Datadog, PagerDuty
• Understanding of quality management systems and quality control processes
• Background in data-based testing and/or security-based testing
• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or other relevant experience

Benefits

• Competitive salary and startup equity
• Medical, Dental, Vision insurance premiums covered up to 100% (employee only)
• 401K matching
• Unlimited PTO
• A remote-first team with regular opportunities to get together in person for team building, design sprints, and customer visits
• A one time allowance of $1,500 for home office supplies
• Annual budget of $1,000 for learning and professional development
• Diverse, inclusive, highly collaborative, and vibrant culture