Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer (QA)

Summary

Join Emergent Software as a Software QA Engineer and work remotely from Latin America on interesting projects for US-based clients. Collaborate with a team of top-notch engineers in an agile environment. Responsibilities include planning test cases, performing manual testing, documenting results, reporting issues, and working with clients on UAT. You will need experience in agile development, manual testing, test planning, and strong communication skills. Emergent Software offers flexible work schedules, work-life balance, professional development opportunities, and excellent benefits tailored to your country, including a paid trip to an annual in-person event. The company values work-life balance and compensates for overtime. This is a remote-first company with a flexible work schedule.

Requirements

• Experience on an agile development team in the role of a Quality Engineer performing manual testing
• Experience writing comprehensive test plans and test cases
• 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
• Interpret and refine acceptance criteria, ensuring it matches overall project requirements
• Perform manual testing against acceptance criterion throughout the life of software projects
• Document and interpret results of testing, creating bugs and documenting future remediation work
• 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)
• Coordinate automation activities around regression testing and scheduled testing for clients, as applicable
• 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 a shared workspace
• Flexible work schedule meaning you can work regular hours or choose weekends and evenings
• 100 hours per year to focus on your professional development . We invest in your growth!
• Excellent benefits package tailored to your country
• All workers are first class team members
• Other than working from Latin America, your experience working at Emergent will be the mostly the same as employees in the US
• This includes a paid-for trip to our yearly in-person event
• Work on projects with people from the US and Latin America speaking English 100% of the time
• Work closely with other talented engineers and team members . Our vetting process means you can count on your team members to know what they are talking about
• 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