QA Engineer

Job Description

Are you interested in working for a hospitality technology company whose ethos includes innovation, culture, and customer service? We're looking for an individual with grit, integrity, curiosity, and yearns for greatness! If you thrive working in a fast-growing startup and are ready for a new adventure, Concilio Labs could be the next step in your career.

As a Concilio QA Engineer, you will work collaboratively in a high intensity, rapidly growing environment, with other development and product management teams to maintain Concilio's products and applications. You're energized by applying your expertise with a group of talented people to achieve something important, together. You have excellent attention to detail, a strong passion for high quality and are always looking for new and more efficient ways to test and report metrics on our solutions.

About the Position:

Testing Strategies and Responsibilities

1. Review visual designs, functional requirements, specifications, and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback
2. Participate in end-to-end testing initiatives throughout the entire Software Development Life Cycle from test planning, test design, test execution, and test reporting. This includes performance testing, stress testing, front end, back end testing, automation testing, including functional, regression, exploratory, black box and white box
3. Create and document detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans, procedures and test cases (for both functional and nonfunctional requirements)
4. Assist with estimation, prioritization, planning, and coordination of testing activities
5. Design, develop, and execute automation scripts
6. Identify, record, document thoroughly and track bugs. Collect and analyze logs and network traces of failure to determine the root cause of failures.
7. Analyze formal test results in order to discover and report any defects, bugs, errors, configuration issues, and interoperability flaws
8. Perform thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved
9. Coordinate software releases along with release manager to run scripts prior to production deploy while ensuring that products render and function properly on all major web browsers and mobile devices.
10. Develop and apply testing processes for new and existing applications and products
11. Build and improve automation testing frameworks and tools for API and web-based applications
12. Track quality assurance metrics (i.e. defect densities and defect counts)
13. Regularly assess the effectiveness of our testing technologies and practices. Conduct internal audits to measure and assure adherence to established QA standards for software development, application integration, and information system performance, and corresponding documentation
14. Ensure that our systems and solutions maintain the highest levels of availability and data integrity

Team Collaboration and Growth

1. Liaise with internal teams (i.e. developers and delivery managers) to identify system requirements
2. Work closely with the entire QA team to design and build integration tests
3. Be a strong quality advocate, collaborating closely with software engineers, designers, and product managers to release revolutionary products
4. Pair with software engineers to identify and prevent gaps with automation/regression coverage and even build frameworks
5. Work with developers on improving system testability and creating testing environment
6. Work on special tasks and projects as needed
7. Stay up-to-date with new testing tools and test strategies

About You

• Clearly communicate capabilities, opportunities, and recommendations to both technical and nontechnical audiences
• Exceptional interpersonal relationship building skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Strong analytical capabilities for advanced problem-solving
• Ability to influence decision-making and change
• Highly organized and strong ability to multitask
• Ability to display good judgment
• Ability to work cross-functionally in a fast-paced environment
• Self starter and self motivated
• Comfortable working with customers and internal teams in different time zones

Educational Requirements

• Bachelor's degree. B.S.

Experience

• Minimum of 4+ years of professional experience in quality assurance, system development within Software Development in a fast paced environment
• Minimum 1 year of experience with maintaining and executing automation tests
• Previous experience working in an agile development environment (Scrum)
• Able to prioritize in a fast moving, high pressure, constantly changing environment
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and projects simultaneously in an organized and timely manner
• Good sense of urgency, resourcefulness, and independence
• Experience with Jira or other task collaborations tools
• Working knowledge and understanding of Quality Assurance practices
• Experience with Continuous Testing and Continuous Delivery
• Expertise in test automation, building test harnesses, and integrating automated testing tools and frameworks (Selenium, Cucumber)
• Knowledge of OOPs concepts
• Solid understanding of one or more programming languages (i.e. Java, Python)
• Experience in testing RESTful API, SOAP
• Solid working knowledge of SQL and scripting
• Knowledge of version control systems (Git, Gitlab)
• Strong knowledge with UNIX/Linux environment
• Experience in automated testing of distributed systems
• Experience with AWS cloud based solutions
• Experience collaborating with developers and business authorities to automate critical workflows for testing
• Experience with test efforts for mobile applications and especially with mobile automation tools is a plus
• Experience with load and performance testing
• Experience with security testing is a plus