QA Automation Engineer (JS)
SolbegSoft
Responsibilities:
- Serves as the quality expert and enforces quality assurance/control processes and procedures as an embedded tester on a cross-functional product team.
- Creates detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans for front-end features.
- Vets designs for usability and compliance pre-development. Wears the end user hat and asks intelligent questions/writes solid test cases.
- Estimates, prioritizes, plans and coordinates testing activities, including assisting the team with development estimates and release cadence.
- Designs, develops and executes automated test suites (acceptance, performance, regression, load, compliance, security and other suites) for the Web and mobile-Web front-ends.
- Identifies, records, documents and tracks bugs from inception through fix release.
- Acts as a liaison with internal teams (e.g. designers, product managers, other product engineering teams) to identify new system requirements in addition to vetting user stories during design/prototyping.
- Debugs production issues and reproduces said issues in staging/pre-production environments.
- Tracks QA metrics such as feature test coverage, open defect counts, production error rates, etc.
- Stays up-to-date with new testing tools and test strategies.
- Performs exploratory and regression as needed to validate changes or debug issues with automated tests.
- Bachelor's degree in a related field.
- Strong knowledge of the JavaScript / TypeScript.
- Minimum of five (5) years of experience in QA and three (3) years of automation experience in JavaScript.
- Demonstrated and proficient ability to write code.
- Demonstrated ability and experience developing and debugging automated tests using Jest, Playwright and Puppeteer.
- Demonstrated ability and experience developing or implementing automated testing frameworks for React projects.
- Demonstrated ability and experience testing (APIs) in a 'headless' fashion.
- Effective, consistent and impeccable communication (verbal and written).
- Ability to work productively in an Agile development process.
- Exhibits a "test to break" mentality as usability, security, stability and compatibility are guiding principles for the Development Front-End team.
- Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes.
- Demonstrated knowledge and experience with white/clear/black box testing.
- Demonstrated skills sets and experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases.
- Proven work experience in software QA, specifically automated test development for mobile and web end points.
- Self-starter, self-motivator, detail-oriented (unrelenting attention), highly organized. Motivated to excel, competitive in nature and does not confuse "efforts" with "results"; Maintains patience during testing processes.
- Possesses a positive, collaborative and forward-thinking attitude in general and to improve the status quo via quality standards.
- Must be able to work effectively and efficiently in a fast paced environment including stressful situations.
- Individual must be open to learn about and understand 'niche' industry.
- Demonstrates and maintains flexibility and adapts to changes within industry and company.
- Intermediate (B1+) spoken and written English level.
- Experience with mobile device testing.
- Experience with Appium, Robotium, XCUITest, Google Firebase Test Lab, or other mobile testing frameworks/paradigms.
- Experience testing web application front ends/websites.
- web design experience a large plus.
- Experience with automation paradigms for web applications (Selenium, Cucumber, Typescript, WATIR, or similar).
- Experience with compliance testing on front ends (508, WCAG 2.0, or similar).
- Experience with UI/UX testing/vetting; a background in design is a plus.
- Experience with distributed source control (Git, Mercurial, or similar).
- Experience using Atlassian stack (Jira/Confluence).
- Experience managing «lots" of test hardware/devices, including SauceLabs.
- Game industry experience a large plus.
