Quality isn’t just a goal. It’s the whole point.
Our customers are under a lot of pressure to deliver great software. But to compress lifecycles, add features, and compete in a world where ‘every company is now a software company’ is hard. And one mistake can mean their reputation, even future. That’s why it’s our mission to help. At any part of their software development lifecycle (SDLC), we provide the tools and discipline to focus on quality while streamlining their processes. So our customers can create and deploy software that works as designed – especially when it’s needed most. And we’re looking for people to join us.
SmartBear is seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer to work with the Zephyr Scale product. This product provides test management capabilities to Atlassian products, working as a plugin/extension for Jira and Confluence, for managing both manual and automated testing processes. You will be working on improving the quality and helping make sure that we deliver good software for our thousands of users.
As a person, we would love it if you are:
- Curious about other people’s opinions and perspectives, and happy being part of a creative team, bouncing ideas back and forth
- Keen to work in an inclusive, collaborative environment, giving and receiving feedback openly in whatever format works best for you
- Compassionate towards yourself, your colleagues, and your customer
- Keen to help continuously improving the way we work together
We especially welcome applications from people who up until now have tended to be under-represented in the world of tech.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the definition of a test strategy and manage its execution, through defining different types of tests to be used and coverage goals
- Analyze business requirements to determine completeness, dependencies, and impact on existing product functionality
- Take a leading role in defining acceptance criteria for new feature work
- Write and maintain acceptance test scenarios for different functional areas of the product
- Exploratory testing of feature components beyond the scope of agreed acceptance tests
- Write and maintain automated regression tests
- Manual acceptance test of some features before production release
- Monitor and debug automation test failures
- Gain an understanding of business concepts and how users use the product
- Take leadership in advocating test processes within the teams and guide developers in testing best practices
Qualifications:
- 4+ years of experience in software testing and test automation
- Strong knowledge of SDLC (particularly agile) and testing principles
- Passionate about quality in both the development process and final product delivered
- Keen interest in understanding how software/the product works
- Ability to analyze issues in detail and help determine root cause
- Excellent communication skills and an ability to work with remote teams
- Experience with test automation tools such as Selenium, Cucumber, JUnit
- Experience with source code management tools e.g., GitHub
- Experience with programming languages, particularly Java and Javascript/NodeJS
- Experience with CI tools
- English at least on B2 level
Desirable:
- Experience with CircleCI
- Experience with WebdriverIO Framework
- Experience with Docker
- Exposure to React
SmartBear offers:
- Bonus 5% of annual salary
- Copyrights deductible costs (creative tax)
- 300 PLN of annual budget for fitness reimbursement
- Employee referral program – 9 300 PLN gross for recommendation
- Birthday Benefit – Employees will be given the day off on their birthday and can expense lunch
- Possibility of remote work during the pandemic, flexible working hours
- Virtual Exercise Class with Fit Revolution
- Breakfasts on Wednesdays, Lunches on Fridays and many other stacks in the office during the whole week
- Buddy program
- Integration events
- SmartBear Talks
- Access to Pluralsight
- Private Medical Care and Multisport
- … and we are working on more ideas 😊
About SmartBearAt SmartBear, we focus on your one priority that never changes: quality. We know delivering quality software over and over is complicated. So our tools are built to streamline your process while seamlessly working with the products you use – and will use. Whether it’s TestComplete, Swagger, Cucumber, ReadyAPI, Zephyr, or one of our other tools, we span from test automation, API lifecycle, collaboration, performance testing, test management, and more. Whichever you need, they’re easy to try, easy to buy, and easy to integrate. We’re used by 15 million developers, testers, and operations engineers at 24,000+ organizations – including world-renowned innovators like Adobe, JetBlue, FedEx, and Microsoft. Wherever you’re going, we’ll help you get there. Learn more at
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SmartBear is an equal employment opportunity employer and encourages success based on our individual merits and abilities without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, ancestry, mental or physical disability, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, medical condition, sex, sex stereotyping, pregnancy (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), or any other legally protected status.