Full-Time Senior QA Engineer
Education Perfect is hiring a remote Full-Time Senior QA Engineer. The career level for this job opening is Senior Manager and is accepting New Zealand based applicants remotely. Read complete job description before applying.
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Education Perfect is an EdTech platform designed to empower educators and amplify their impact in the classroom. We aim to enable teachers to personalize learning at scale with a range of powerful learning, assessment, and insights tools, helping them and their students reach their full potential.
As a Senior QA Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring the continuous improvement and development of features on our platform. Your primary task is to meticulously test new functionalities, identify bugs and inconsistencies, and work collaboratively across Product and Engineering teams to address these issues.
This senior role provides support to the QA Lead, and can involve mentoring and coaching other members of the QA and Engineering teams. It's an exciting opportunity for direct impact on our teams.
You will:
- Apply analytical skills to ensure the right things are tested in the most appropriate way.
- Play a key role in managing backlogs of defects, identifying, retesting, and resolving issues.
- Develop test plans within a fluid and innovative environment, in cross-functional teams.
- Perform manual testing at all stages (exploratory, regression, user acceptance testing).
- Identify opportunities to automate manually-tested operations, including developing and maintaining existing automated tests.
- Collaborate with others to define and resolve issues in advance of frequent releases.
- Clearly communicate QA best practice and share knowledge.
- Make strong contributions throughout the product development lifecycle.
Your skills and experience include:
- 6+ years experience in software testing & ISTQB certification
- Sound knowledge of agile principles, quality test frameworks, and practices
- Knowledge of existing automated testing frameworks and tools, and an eye for identifying enhancements
- Keen attention to test data metrics to provide insights that inform data-driven decisions
- Capable of envisioning the end-product, impacting change, and advocating exceptional customer experience
- Proven experience influencing stakeholders
- Advanced programming skills for crafting and maintaining test scripts.
- Experience in integrating automation into CI/CD pipelines.
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Experience, capability, and desire to mentor others.
- Team-oriented, with initiative in reaching out to others.
- Excellence in communication and information sharing.
What we offer:
- Remote and flexible working arrangements
- Communication allowance for remote workers
- Home office setup allowance
- Additional annual leave during shutdown
- Wellness allowance
- Employee Equity Bonus Plan
- Employee referral program
- Ongoing professional development
- Growth opportunities