Software QA Engineer

We’re looking for a Software Quality Assurance Engineer to support our web and mobile products and services, and collaborate alongside Product, Development, and other members of the QA team.

Responsibilities:

• Engage in both formal meetings and informal conversations with colleagues to gain a thorough understanding of the product's functionality and overarching purpose. Utilize these insights to develop comprehensive test documentation and strategy.
• Use documentation and networking tools to determine whether bugs are caused by the server or client.
• Identify and document clear steps to reproduce bugs and work with the team to prioritize test cases
• Collaborate closely with Developers, Product Managers, and QA team to clarify inconsistencies between specifications, test cases, and product behavior.
• Make recommendations to improve product reliability, performance, and quality assurance best practices and processes
• Expand and improve automation scripts created in Maestro and Cypress frameworks
• Investigate, troubleshoot, and enter reproducible application issues into Jira
• Investigate and evaluate new testing technologies and products for web and mobile applications

Qualifications:

• 3+ years professional experience of web and/or mobile testing for a consumer-facing product
• Familiar with both manual and automation testing
• Strong experience with JavaScript and Jira
• Experience with Cypress and/or Maestro a nice to have
• API expertise (REST) on how the client communicates to/from servers
• Experience maintaining and updating test plans/test suites in a very fast paced feature changing environment
• BS/MS in computer science or equivalent work experience

Location: Menlo Park, CA

Type: Contract

Duration: 6-12 months, with possibility of extension

Pay Rate: $45-55/hr. W2