QA Engineer

Job Summary:
As the 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 tools and best 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.
Job Responsibilities:
As the QA Engineer, you will be responsible for:

 
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
   
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.
  
 
Project Tasks
  

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

Job Skills & Experience:

 
3+ experience as Software QA Engineer
 
Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related qualifications
 
Develop, maintain and execute smoke, regression, functional, performance, and other test cases.
 
Proficiency in any programming language/coding, including Python, Ruby, and JavaScript
 
Experience and good understanding of UI automation testing and frameworks like Cypress, Selenium along with javascript/typescript/ruby
 
Experience in software testing, quality improvement, quality process, quality assurance methodologies, and best practices.
 
API testing (manual and automated as applicable)
 
Experience with SQL
 
Experience in Agile testing methodologies and best practices.
 
Modern Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment technologies and techniques. Exposure to git/bitbucket/gitlab equivalent tools
 
Capacity to perform independently & efficiently in a fast-paced environment
 
Familiarity with migration testing
 
Familiarity with AWS/GCP Cloud tools/technologies
 
Familiarity with non functional testing - cross browser testing, performance and load testing
 
Familiarity with rails console(Ruby on rails application)
 
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