Sr. Software Quality Assurance Engineer

About Bobtail

Bobtail is dedicated to increasing happiness by eliminating inefficiencies in the supply chain.  We envision a supply chain without friction, fraud, waste, and abuse where companies succeed based on the value they create.  

We work in a unique way at Bobtail, where we value teams over individuals and encourage experimentation and iteration to constantly improve.  Teams are given flexibility in working towards a shared purpose and given the freedom to decide how they will accomplish their goals.  

If you are an out of the box thinker that takes a proactive approach in collaborating with others to solve problems and achieve your goals - we would love to talk to you.  

The things we value:

1. Mission
2. Teams over individuals
3. Collaboration
4. Communication
5. Iteration
6. Experimentation and failing fast
7. Initiative and solutions oriented approach
8. Documentation
9. Data
10. Mental health and work life balance
11. Diversity
12. Transparency

You should apply if you have:

• Exposure to SDLC from reviewing requirements through to debugging complex systems in Production.
• Strong theoretical fundamentals and hands-on experience designing and implementing highly covered automated testing environments.
• 5+ years of experience in software quality assurance engineering with demonstrated proficiency in related tools and technologies such as Selenium / Cypress, Jmeter etc.
• Experience in testing enterprise software, event driven microservices architecture, and distributed systems at scale.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related engineering degree.

You will be responsible for:

• Work as a senior software quality assurance engineer, heading and handling both automated and manual testing of mobile apps, APIs and web apps
• Black box, security, regression, usability, performance, and stress testing
• Creating test plans and cases
• Ensuring test cases have a high level of test coverage.
• Prioritizing and executing tests
• Maintenance of the test environment
• Tracking software bugs and investigating the causes
• Preparing detailed test reports
• Pointing out problem areas
• Working with large scale, highly available and resilient modern financial systems.
• Working with automated deployment, enabling code release multiple times a day.
• Working with modern tools and languages that excite you.
• Being an integral part of a team, in addition to its culture and ways of working. Common practices include agile methodologies.

Some of the technologies you’ll get to work with:

• Selenium / Cypress, or suggest better alternatives.
• Java / Typescript / Javascript.
• Docker, AWS.

Benefits

• Monthly Mental Break Day
• Paid Time off
• Work from home (or wherever)
• Parental leave

Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is Bobtail’s nucleus. We are an equal opportunity employer and embrace people of different backgrounds, cultures, religions, national origins, races, colors, genders, gender expressions, sexual orientations, ages, marital status, veteran status, experiences, abilities and perspectives.