Quality Assurance

Descrição da empresa

Metal Toad is a values-driven technology consultant with over 20 years of customer delivery. Founded in 2003, Metal Toad has grown to become a leading cloud consulting partner, providing consulting, development, application support, and managed services.

We have helped to develop award winning consumer-facing applications for industry leaders like Sony, Daimler, Intel, the Golden Globes, Siemens Wind Power, ABC, NBC, DC Comics, Warner Brothers & the Linux Foundation. With staff in both North America and Brazil we support a diverse group of customers across multiple time zones.

Atividades e Responsabilidades

The QA Engineer ensures that we find problems before our clients do. You will work closely with your team members, practicing manual and automated testing, and driving innovation across the organization. As a thought leader in the QA space, you make a true difference in how QA delivers, and have a voice in our transition to CI practices. You thrive on learning, innovating, and participating in the professional community. As a QA Engineer, you will ensure high standards of quality and own all QA offerings and services by leading the quality initiatives and ensuring their marketability. You will escalate risks and known issues promptly and frequently, deliver quality releases to our clients, and collaborate with teams to guarantee the success of the project.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Collaborate with development team, Project Managers, and Technical Consultants to create and implement testing plan, mitigate bugs, and maintain project standards
• Write and maintain automated tests for user stories and features throughout a project’s life cycle
• Manual QA of developer work
• Proactively communicate risks and issues as they become known, to both clients and team
• Work independently, and have ownership over testing decisions and results
• Advocate for solutions, and determine bugs’ severity
• Ability to thrive working with Agile / SCRUM methodologies
• Shares knowledge with company and community through blogging and/or meetups
• Ensures tests adhere to accepted best practice guidelines, whether code-specific or framework-specific

EXPERTISE

• Researches new techniques, technologies, and ideas
• Shares knowledge with development team, helping them understand testing strategies and general concepts
• Makes recommendations and collaborates with colleagues (QA Engineers, Director of Technology)

Requisitos

Metal Toad is a fully remote company, so our work model is online. The candidate must be able to work between 8-9 am and 5-6 pm Pacific Time (PST) from Monday through Friday.

Fluent proficiency in English is a must for this position.

QUALIFICATIONS
Required
• Read (and agree to) our Corporate Values Statement
• Believe in the company mission
• 3+ years of experience with quality assurance
• 2+ years of experience with automated test suites like Cypress
• 1+ years of development experience
• Ability to create and implement testing strategies for a variety of projects
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Experience with full-stack testing
• Working knowledge of CLI
• Understanding of Git workflows and practices

Preferred
• Experience working with SCRUM methodologies
• Experience using / creating a Continuous Integration process