Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer (QA)

Summary

Join Emergent Software as a fully remote Software QA Engineer. This role requires experience in quality assurance, manual and automated testing of complex web applications, and participation in the agile software development lifecycle. You will work closely with a team of talented engineers, enjoy flexible work hours, and receive excellent benefits. The position offers opportunities for professional development and profit sharing. Emergent Software values work-life balance and compensates for overtime. The company is committed to providing high-quality software for its clients.

Requirements

• Experience on an agile development team in the role of a Quality Engineer performing manual testing and automated testing
• Test automation skills and experience with various automated testing tools
• Experience writing comprehensive test plans and test cases and moving them into testing automation tools
• A firm grasp on how websites, web applications, APIs, databases, mobile apps, windows apps, and the cloud function at a high level
• Ability to thrive on a small team in a fast-paced environment while juggling a variety of projects and wearing multiple hats
• Exemplary attention to detail with the ability to work with teammates to determine pragmatic solutions to quality issues
• Strong technical writing, verbal communication, and presentation skills are a must

Responsibilities

• Work with the agile team to plan test cases for User Stories and Features
• Create testing automation scenarios to be run on new development
• Document and interpret results of automated testing, creating bugs and documenting future remediation work
• Interpret and refine acceptance criteria, ensuring it matches overall project requirements
• Perform manual testing against acceptance criterion throughout the life of software projects
• Coordinate automation activities around regression testing and scheduled testing for clients
• Report and track issues accurately and effectively
• Evaluate mid-project changes for testing impact
• Help us improve our QA processes making them more robust and efficient
• Work directly with clients to coordinate their User-Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Other related duties as assigned by your manager

Preferred Qualifications

• Azure DevOps, Jira, and/or other agile work organization tools
• Experience test-planning for large projects
• Previous consulting experience either independent consulting or with a firm
• Microsoft stack technologies such as C#, .NET, SQL Server, Azure
• Content management systems (e.g. Sitecore, Umbraco, Contentful)
• Software development experience

Benefits

• Work from home or work remotely from anywhere you want
• Flexible work schedule meaning you can work regular hours or choose weekends and evenings
• Work-life balance is essential and highly valued at Emergent Software. If you choose to work more than 40 hours, you’ll be compensated for the extra work!
• Work on interesting projects solving complex business problems with custom software
• 100 hours per year to focus on your professional development . We invest in your growth!
• Profit sharing bonus means as we’re successful, you’re successful
• Excellent benefits package including medical insurance, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, FSA, disability, life insurance, and paid parental leave
• Medical Insurance: up to 80% of your monthly medical premium (HSA options available)
• HSA Contribution: up to $144/month
• Dental & Vision Insurance: up to 50% of your monthly dental and vision premium costs
• 401(k) plan: company match up to 4% of salary
• Profit sharing bonus: up to 15% of salary paid quarterly
• Extra compensation: get paid extra for work over 40 hours/week
• Employee referral & customer referral bonuses
• Flex Spending Account (FSA) for Dependent Care & Healthcare Costs
• Dependent Care FSA Contribution: $90/month
• Short Term Disability: $500/week for 12 weeks
• Long Term Disability: up to $6,000/month
• Group term life and AD&D insurance: $50k
• PTO, standard holidays, 2 floating holidays
• Paid parental leave: 2 weeks
• Staff development program: 100 hours/year plus training costs