Quality Assurance Engineer

Quality Assurance Engineer

Bucharest (Romania) / Hybrid (2d/week)

• We value engineering as a whole and try not to assign too many labels like “full-stack” and get caught up in jargon.
• We like open discussions about everything.
• We’re fast and never afraid to get our hands dirty.
• We always have big goals like turning a monolith into micro-services or changing a sunset technology with a better one.
• Excited about CI&CD and automation.
• We view DevOps, QA, Dev, and PM as one big team and together try to do right by the product.
• Results matter to us, and we often have technical liberty to pick the right tool and just “get it done”.
• Sometimes things don’t work as you initially planned so you go back in and iterate.
• We value transparency, solutions, working software over extensive documentation, and servant leadership. 

• We have a high degree of flexibility in remote work location and hours, but we also appreciate and encourage getting together with the team in a hybrid mode. 

• Define and execute end-to-end test cases.
• Perform functional, application, regression, compatibility, performance, and smoke tests.
• Define and track quality assurance metrics such as defect densities and open defect counts.
• Report agreed metrics and progress.
• Work with the Development team to develop, publish and implement test plans.
• Take ownership for the quality of the product that is released.
• Participate in Sprint plannings and everything related to the SCRUM process.
• Help the business define requirements and shape up features.
• Troubleshoot production issues / escalated support issues for the software platform that the QA is responsible for testing by tracking software bugs and investigating the causes.
• Help identify ways to enhance testing strategy with new tools, processes, or techniques.
• Provide stakeholders with concrete measurements of product quality.

• Firm understanding of software development and IT.
• Basic understanding of how web applications are structured, web protocols and tools.
• Ability to document and troubleshoot errors.
• Advanced level of written and spoken English.
• Agile methodology familiarity.
• Experienced in working with tools like Jira, Confluence, etc.
• Analytical mind, willingness to understand complex systems and find their weaknesses.
• Basic mobile platforms knowledge (iOS, Android).

• Knowledge and hands-on experience of a test management tool. Able to work with build/configure/deploy tools.
• Basic knowledge of HTML and CSS
• Basic SQL and database knowledge
• Basic administration - may include Windows, Linux, Mac OS system and network administration, Virtualisation (VMWare/Hyper-V/VirtualBox)
• API testing tools like Postman, JMeter, etc.