Quality Engineer

**This is a Permanent EoR role and not a B2B Contract**

As a QA Engineer, you will work on our quality engineering initiatives throughout the engineering organization. You will work closely with product development engineers and SRE with a diverse background and collaboratively build automation testing practices. Apollo Engineering strongly believes in allowing team members to take ownership of what they do, and our approach to problem-solving relies heavily upon creativity, communication, and collaboration.

Minimum qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience as Software QA Engineer 

• 2+ years of experience of related experience working in a PLG Environment 

• Experience and good understanding of automation testing and frameworks like Cypress, Selenium, Cucumber, Playwright or Rspec

• Exposure to modern backend programming languages - Java, Python or Ruby (at least one of them)

• Experience with JavaScript and/or Typescript

• Expert knowledge of software testing, quality improvement, quality process, quality assurance methodologies, and best practices

• Experiences in web services, batch/extract file processing, microservice api level testing

• Good experience in Agile testing methodologies and best practices

Good to Have 

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related qualifications 

• Modern Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment technologies and techniques

• Synthetic Monitoring and Metrics gathering with tools like NewRelic, GCP Logging, Datadog

• Familiarity with Linux Containers and Virtualization (Docker)

• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker Compose

Preferred Skills

• Strong problem-solving abilities and technical reasoning.

• Ability to work cross-functionally with other engineering teams.

• Strong interest in learning new and emerging technologies

• Software Testing or Quality related certification is a plus

• Knowledge of microservices architecture

• Knowledge of the challenges faced by software engineers in a modern engineering department.

Responsibilities 

Automation Testing

• Adhere to all aspects of QE processes and methodologies and ensure effectiveness and alignment to industry best practices 

• Designing and developing QE artifacts for automation frameworks like Cypress or Playwright

• Achieving QE objectives and deliverables to customers based on quality standards. 

• Prepare, review, and maintain testing documents (test plan, test cases, test reports,) to ensure complete test coverage 

• Automating test cases based on product requirements. ◦ Manage proper execution by the QE team on different types of testing (functional, integration, end-to-end, performance, etc)

Internal Tools Ownership 

• Building QE dashboard to report health metrics of code quality and testing coverage

• Enhancing Synthetic monitoring practices with tools like NewRelic 

• Report and escalate issues with test environments. Must be able to work closely with Dev Ops and the internal clients to support deployment and testing of parallel releases for all channels and platforms. 

• Supporting engineers on internal tools, systems, and processes. 

Project Tasks 

• Perform QE testing activities as required (test case preparation, testing execution, environment setup, installation, etc) 

• Task prioritization and project level estimation. 

• Use of modern project management software such as JIRA to organize epics, stories and tickets and track progress.

• Requirements gathering required for projects.

• Manage or prepare customer demo presentations for project deliverables when needed.  

• Providing estimates and plans required for feature development.

• Breaking larger tasks down into smaller tasks and identifying the order in which they should be completed.

• Using agile project management techniques like stand-ups and weekly sprint planning. 

Cross-Functional Collaboration 

• Communicate technical ideas to software developers in written and verbal formats. 

• Provide strategic testing initiatives for projects to introduce efficient techniques and test productivity improvements.

• Work and collaborate with other teams across different offices of the company to achieve organizational objectives when needed .

• Manage risks and deliverables to ensure that the testing activities remain within agreed scope, schedule, budget, and quality standards.