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

• Proven experience leveraging AI tools to enhance software development processes, including code generation, debugging, and productivity optimization. Candidates should demonstrate fluency in integrating AI-driven solutions into their workflows and a willingness to stay current with emerging AI technologies

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.