Klir is on a mission to make water better. Our customers are global leaders in water management. We are looking for a Software Quality Assurance Engineer that can help us build-in quality to every aspect of our platform.
In this English-language, remote role, you ensure the team achieves built-in code quality. You develop QA test plans, and drive the testing strategies and quality metrics that help us deliver a solid enterprise solution. You set quality standards and provide feedback to help us meet our goals. You build upon experience in software testing tools and frameworks to help us implement automation to deliver a validated release with minimal delay. You advocate quality policies that guide the entire team, and collaborate with management on estimation, resource planning, and team development.
Responsibilities
- Collaborating with developers to solve application faults.
- Planning test schedules and test strategies to meet team delivery objectives
- Creating and maintaining company documentation, such as quality manuals and quality procedures.
- Engaging all team members within Klir in quality improvements and testing.
- Instructing and mentoring team mates as a leader in QA practices, with support and oversight.
- Providing feedback and constructive advice to develop and grow capability within the team.
- Meeting with the software design team to plan test coverage and verification methods.
- Identifying software application weaknesses and target areas.
- Prioritizing and planning bug-fix efforts.
- Planning and delivery of initiatives to automate testing and tools that support QA goals.
- Writing automation scripts and implementing software applications.
- Troubleshooting automation software and finalizing system procedures.
Requirements
Essential:
- Effective verbal and written communication in English.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in a Software QA, with at least 2 years leading a QA team.
- Broad experience on-boarding and using test automation tools and platforms.
- Expertise in principles and methods for software testing.
- Agile QA and test-driven development (TDD) practices.
- Customer advocacy and customer focus.
- Estimating and prioritizing work.
- Previous experience in creating test strategy and test plans on major projects
- Strong SQL query-writing skills (SQLServer, Oracle )
- Experience in an early-stage start up or proven track record operating in earliest stages of a product.
- Excellent organizational and problem-solving skills, with a broad base of knowledge in the areas of technology and communications
- Work in GMT -4 timezone hours
Desirable:
- Proficiency with automation tools like Selenium, Playright and Testproject.io
- Proficien