QA Testing Engineer | Automated Testing Focus

Our QA / Testing Engineers pair a variety of open-source programming languages and technologies with disciplined industry standards to own the quality of the features we build for our clients' products through many different testing methods and frameworks, including automated testing, unit tests, functional testing, smoke tests, black/white box testing, and more as appropriate for the project and the team.

All team members at Caxy work closely together to innovate on new technologies and deliver excellent products to our clients. In our QA Testing Engineer role, you will work with all different roles within the company and on rare occasions, you may engage directly with client technical teams. You will be responsible for 1-5 projects at a time (depending on the size, needs, and available bandwidth) and may work as the sole tester or as one of a few testers as appropriate.

Some of the things you'll do in this role are address level 1 website issues as relevant to the role, setup testing suites on projects, support help-desk teams, build unit, functional, or automated browser tests (selenium, playwright, puppeteer, or similar). You may also contribute to general testing prep, writing test plans, executing test plans, or providing testing documentation and sprint deliverables as appropriate for the role. 

You may be perfect for this role if you have... 

• A motivated, natural problem solver with a passion for finding problems before they exist. 
• A desire to stay ahead of the curve -- the problems, the opportunities, the security, the scaling -- if you are a future-forward thinker, you're made for this.
• A passion for quality management and owning the quality of products. 
• A discipline for staying on top of mission-critical standards around testing
• An appreciation for hopping in and out of things as needed -- you like variety and you like to be able to step in. 
• An interest in technology, an interest in consulting, and/or an interest in building a variety of applications across industries (startups, fintech, higher ed, manufacturing, etc). This interest means understanding that different spaces and different sizes require different solutions -- and tailoring those solutions to them is a huge value. 
• An ability to make iterative progress -- understanding how to prioritize key needs and create a plan to tackle smaller needs later
• You're a strong communicator and have a high attention to detail
• Strong analytical skills to assess test results, detect issues, and track root causes
• A true love of technology, a deep understanding of the role quality assurance plays in a software development life cycle, and a desire for continual learning and professional growth in this field.

Our QA Testing Engineers exhibit these skills...

• Expert communication skills and troubleshooting skills
• Expert documenting technical issues and solutions
• Expert attention to detail, problem analysis and problem solving
• Expert with data collection, analysis and reporting - particularly with consideration to documentation and reporting of defects, regressions, and other quality concerns.
• Proficient to expert gathering product requirements for testing
• Proficient to expert setting up test environments, working within test environments and keeping environments in sync with respect to tests
• Proficient to expert multiple testing methods manual and automated: black box, white box, smoke test, automated testing, unit tests, functional tests, etc. 
• Proficient to expert with automated testing frameworks like selenium, playwright, puppeteer or similar.
• Proficient to expert building automated test systems and managing the tests within them
• Proficient hands on experience with Quality Management Systems
• Competent - familiarity with CI/CD pipeline tooling (Jenkins, Github Actions, CircleCI, etc)
• Competent at working in version control (Git)
• Competent - writing test plans, managing test plans, and updating testing documentation
• Novice to Competent with project management tools like JIRA, Harvest, Github, etc.
• Nice to have - familiarity with JavaScript unit testing frameworks (Jasmine, Karma, etc.)
• Nice to have - familiarity with a JS techstack (Node, React, GQL) 
• Nice to have - familiarity with usability / accessibility standards, SEO, analytics 
• Nice to have - working knowledge of React/Node

Responsibilities you can expect...

• Respond to and resolve or coordinate resolution to issues reported in help desk as they relate to Testing Engineer role 
• Active participation in planning, grooming, and other SCRUM ceremonies as it pertains to the role and the responsibilities of a given project. 
• Setting up testing suites on projects and establishing or supporting testing standards generally for caxy standards and tailoring more specifically as required for projects. 
• Writing and maintaining testing notes on test-tickets and feature work as it pertains to this role. 
• Writing tests in technologies and languages that support our larger stack (Node, React, GQL, TypeScript, Postgres/MySQL, NoSQL (mongo, dynamo, couchbase), and others)
• Building the framework and standards for automated browser testing (selenium, playwright, puppeteer or equivalent)
• Continued learning about testing technologies, standards, and best practices. 
• Involvement in project deliverables and goals, meeting defined commitments as it pertains to the role
• Communication, as needed, to the team and to technical client teams to own or share testing and quality control responsibilities. 
• Writing and maintaining testing documentation, training documentation, and other resources as required for ensuring good quality code. 

We do have a few requirements...

• You are able to work during our working hours (9AM - 5:30PM Central)
• You are able to come to our office as needed.
• Previous experience as a testing engineer or similar role
• You have experience managing testing suite and test plans of large-scale applications 
• Knowledgeable with variety of testing methods /techniques
• Knowledge of Quality standards, regulations, and best practices
• Great troubleshooting skills and Analytical mindset
• Ability to understand and create test plans from specifications or verbal communicat