QA Automation Engineer - Contract

QA Automation Engineer - Contract

About the role:

This is a five month full-time contract position paid on as a 1099 worker that will then have the potential to continue on a part time/on-call basis.

What you’ll do

Our Quality Assurance Engineers are an integral part of the Brightidea technology team. As a QA Automation Engineer, you will ensure that the functionality that makes its way from developers' computers and into the wild meets the high expectations of both our stakeholders and our customers. Quality is something that impacts every aspect of the technology team's daily duties and so you will be helping keep that to a high standard no matter what the task. Testing is, of course, one aspect of that, but it's also so much more.

Responsibilities

• Work within established test automation framework to automate test cases for Web based application using clean coding practices and programming methodologies
• Analyze the results of scheduled automated test executions to determine root cause analysis
• Work with QA team in test case creation in order to automate them
• Work with a diversified team of manual QA and other automation engineers.
• This won't be a simple case of executing test plans that have been predefined for you. You will be involved at all appropriate levels of the development process. You'll turn functional requirements into test cases, help identify what systems can be potentially impacted by a release, generate test plans, augment/modify pre-existing test cases and plans as well as execute those test plans and provide detailed feedback to the development team in the form of bug reports.
• Learn from and contribute to a seasoned tech team. We are always eager to learn new ideas and try new things. Help us get even better - we'll love you for it.
• You're going to be talking to all kinds of folks. Developers, product managers, marketers, customer service, operations. If that scares you, either embrace it or click for the next job description.
• Help contribute to the company's internal knowledge base. It's a work in progress but it's getting bigger every day.
• Drive the development of test automation practices. We've got applications deployed across a number of different technologies and platforms, and anything we can do to offset the burden of manual testing with automated regression tests will only help us move faster while keeping the team lean.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience with test automation tools and libraries such as Selenium webdriver
• 3+ years of experience in one or more programming languages(used for test automation or development) like Java, Groovy, Python etc.
• 3+ years of experience in writing and executing manual test cases preferably in Test rail
• Full knowledge of QA methodologies and Agile process
• Ability to identify, isolate, and report software bugs, issues, and defects
• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams including developers, product managers, and other quality assurance engineers.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience in incorporating testing workflows within CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience in mobile testing
• Knowledge in Linux OS

What You Need to Succeed

• If finding a bug doesn't make you all giddy inside, then please don't bother applying. We want someone who relishes the hunt and feels truly rewarded once they've uncovered something - doubly so if it's really nasty
• Experience using Agile, Scrum/Kanban, and Quality Assurance processes and methodologies.
• Experience creating test cases that include both happy path and all manner of edge cases

We're on the lookout for people with a QA automation mentality. We've got some pieces in place to help automate our regression tests. We want to continue to build these out. If that excites and interests you, we want to hear from you. Especially if you've got experience writing automated regression tests. If you've implemented these in Selenium WebDriver that's super awesome. However, if you used other systems, that's good too. It's more about the experience than the tools used. We want folks with that mindset working here.

Background

Helping large companies innovate isn’t easy, but it is vital. Vital to creating new jobs, vital to igniting growth, vital to ensuring a safe, healthy and prosperous future for billions around the globe.

But, innovation at large companies is a mess. Employees often have lots of ideas to improve the business, but, with no formal process, their ideas go unheard, and they eventually give up trying to make a difference. Corporate innovation teams are expected to support a growing list of activities but have historically lacked strong tools designed for the job. Executives, despite having millions to invest, live in fear of disruption, and still have no idea where their “next big idea” will come from, or if it will come at all.

At Brightidea, we’ve built a software platform that’s solving these problems. We’ve been helping organizations be more efficient with the 1.5 trillion dollars invested in R&D annually.

Our Company & Culture

We are a tight-knit, entrepreneurial minded team of self-starters who show up every day with a singular mission: to create a world where the best ideas win. Our primary focus this year is to continue to add exceptionally talented and motivated individuals to the Brightidea team. We are ambitious, bold, highly-collaborative, focused, and we aim to win. We take a humble approach to changing the way corporate R&D teams run innovation challenges.

Anyone joining our company will have the opportunity to shape the culture and be an integral part of setting it up for long term success. If you identify with being humble, T-shaped, and relentlessly resourceful then this could be the perfect team for you to shine in.

Brightidea believes that everyone has the ability to make a difference and that a diverse team generates more innovation and bigger ideas. Just as our product invites organizations to crowd source innovation across their workforce, Brightidea is inclusive and does not discriminate. We accept everybody.