Senior QA Engineer
Leadr, Inc, United States
Job Description
What makes this job meaningful?
This probably isn’t the first job description you’ve read today. Maybe this is one of over 100 you reviewed this week. So, before we go any further, we want to stop and say thank you for considering this role. The rest of this post will be our pitch to you. We know you have options and we’d like you to consider adding us to that list.
The world is full of strained relationships. Perhaps no place is greater evidence of this than the workplace. The cliche of conflict between manager and employee is age-old and we’re tired of it. We’re so tired of it, that we’re out to change it.
Leadr is a new kind of people management software, and while that may sound like business jargon, I promise you that this is not your typical B2B software company. At our core, we are helping organizations develop their people by turning managers into coaches and giving employees a voice. We believe today’s employees expect more than just a title and a salary they seek opportunities to learn, grow, be challenged, and be valued for the ideas they bring to the table. Unfortunately, most organizations lack the tools and structure needed to create a culture to support these expectations across every team and every manager. If this mission matters to you, keep reading.
Our development team at Leadr gets to pioneer this vision through building our world-class product and the systems to support it. We take feedback from our team and customers to create a roadmap to build.
Why You’ll Be Motivated To Apply
- You’ve mastered the essential skills of testing web applications and need a new challenge.
- At this stage in your career you want to be asked to solve problems, rather than be told what to do.
- You are fanatically customer oriented (even internal customers) and thrive on applying your curiosity and talents to finding how things work and why they don’t.
- You have approached craftspersonship level and want to work in an environment where that actually matters.
- You prefer small teams of people who are smart with a get-it-done attitude.
- Leadr is an early stage startup and with that comes amazing growth opportunities. Most likely you’ve only worked at large mature bureaucratic companies or small companies that aren’t really growing. Leadr is neither of those things. You are going to stretch so much you’ll wish you were made out of nylon.
- Leadr is doing something radical and exciting. You noticed that when you checked out our website.
- Leadr is in a solid financial position and we are expanding rapidly.
Why We Need You
- QA is critical to the organized and predictable delivery of quality updates. We value QA and we're looking for someone at the top of their game to own this critical role.
- You will enable us to ship value faster and more frequently without breaking things or disrupting users.
- QA isn't just about finding bugs; it's about preventing them. Ensuring quality exists from design to deployment.
Requirements
Our Tech Stack:
At a high level our tech stack is a React frontend on top of a serverless microservice backend implemented as NodeJS AWS Lambdas with data stored in DGraph, a graph DB.
Our SDLC and Deployment Process:
We sort of do sprints. We push code to prod sort of weekly. Now we are following a Kanban approach and ship whatever has passed QA scrutiny to production once a week. We leverage Feature Flags heavily to control when we turn features on, but also as a safer alternative to branch-mania! We are slowly picking up the pace of deployments and are working towards eventually being able to safely and reliably deploying code to production several times per day.
To success in this role we would prefer.
- 5+ years of commercial experience testing web applications.
- Experience testing a B2B or B2C Saas product that was a "daily-use" type of application, with a SDLC that closely matches what we are striving towards. In that role you were an integral part of successfully and reliably deploying updates to production on a daily basis.
- Experience with feature flags is a huge bonus.
- Experience testing mobile applications (optional but helpful)
- Experience managing your own test environments.
- You have extensive experience testing web software in all manner of methods: scripted, exploratory, boundary, functional.
- You work well in small teams and are familiar with collaboration tools such as JIRA, Confluence and Aha.
- You exude creativity and initiative to improve product test coverage and effectiveness for the entire team.
- You’ve been part of a team that deploys commercial web apps built on cloud-native technologies through f