Senior Quality Engineer

For this job we are currently only hiring candidates based in the United States.

About the opportunity

Ontra is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer that will be reporting to our Manager, Engineering on our Quality Engineering team.

This person will be joining a new scrum team as the founding Quality Engineer. With an automation first mindset, you will develop and enhance software automation (functional, non-functional, API) to enable high quality and rapid software delivery. You are a multiplier of Quality by leading your team in quality and testing methodologies, sharing your expertise and up-leveling your teammates, and injecting high quality standards throughout the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).

You will work closely with our Infrastructure Engineering team to ensure fast and stable CI/CD pipelines to support your and other Ontra development team's delivery.

If you are a team player eager to work in a high growth environment where you will have the opportunity to build processes from scratch, we'd love to get to know you!

What you'll do

• Results-oriented: Work closely with our Infrastructure team to incorporate the automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines to ensure bug free releases to Production

• Proactive: Identify areas of improvement as well as additional key workflows for automation and start adding them to appropriate test suites

• Self-starter: Building out automated functional test suites (Regression and E2E tests for Web platforms and backend API) and non-functional test suites (Web A11y). Aid in manual testing to ensure the features are working as defined in the acceptance criteria

• Forward-thinking: Learn new technologies and advocate for high quality software development

• Detail-oriented: Help creating best practices around test frameworks, documenting processes and documenting results for the broader team

• Mentor: Mentor developers on the scrum team on best practices around various forms of testing and be able to review unit and integration tests written by developers

What you'll bring

• Experience level: 7+ years of experience working in a high growth product environment building test automation suites and manual testing experience. Experienced with programming languages, including JavaScript/TypeScript (required) and Ruby (preferred) or any other object oriented programming language

• Technical knowledge: Ability to recommend best frameworks for solving problems at hand, while partnering with cross functional teams, including Architecture

• Full Stack Testing: proficiency with automated testing tools like Playwright (preferred) and/or Cypress is a must, experience with manual QE testing, API testing and web accessibility testing.

• Best practices: Expert in DevOps practices related to building CI CD pipelines (using github, gitlab or similar)

• Problem solving: Excellent Troubleshooting and triage skills