Intermediate Quality Assurance Engineer

Company Description

We are Edify, one of the highest-ranked IT companies in Costa Rica and Central America.

We're a consolidated technology services consulting firm specializing in education technology. We deliver unbelievably creative and rock-solid solutions for a wide range of clients, including major corporations, startups, educational institutions, and non-profit organizations.

We help our clients design, build and run some of the most interesting ventures in the industry while promoting a warm, friendly and cooperative culture. Work and life should definitely be balanced, so we're serious about cultivating a great work environment.

Job Description

Responsible for analyzing, designing, developing, maintaining, evaluating and assuring the quality and performance of different software system components and their respective relationships, supporting and guiding others in his work team.

Key roles, Responsibilities and Functions:

• Support in defining the quality control process for the project and its integration with the development process.
• Analyze project requirements of low and medium complexity.
• Support the team in identifying testing needs and propose tests for both functional and non-functional requirements of the system.
• Estimate the effort required to implement tests for previously analyzed requirements.
• Develop a test plan based on the analyzed requirements.
• Generate high-level tests for the analyzed requirements.
• Implement the frameworks for scheduled tests.
• Implement integration and system tests with the help of the team.
• Implement low-level test cases for the analyzed requirements.
• Support in defining the strategy to ensure that tests remain updated in relation to introduced changes and propose improvements to it.
• Implement scheduled tests as planned for the project.
• Execute the implemented test cases both manually and automatically.
• Verify and issue reports on test case execution results. Examples: defect reports, daily project status report, test coverage debt report, code analysis report, design proposal analysis report.
• Contribute to ensuring that the quality control process is followed as planned, identify any deviations, and propose corrective actions.
• Issue test reports for iteration closure.
• Issue deployment reports to production.
• Issue project completion reports.
• Document lessons learned.
• Document technical and process aspects related to daily tasks (technical documentation, estimate reports, actual effort -timesheets-, task flow).
• Support in defining the quality control process for the project and its integration with the development process.
• Analyze project requirements of low and medium complexity.
• Support the team in identifying testing needs and propose tests for both functional and non-functional requirements of the system.
• Estimate the effort required to implement tests for previously analyzed requirements.
• Develop a test plan based on the analyzed requirements.
• Generate high-level tests for the analyzed requirements.
• Implement the frameworks for scheduled tests.
• Implement integration and system tests with the help of the team.
• Implement low-level test cases for the analyzed requirements.
• Support in defining the strategy to ensure that tests remain updated in relation to introduced changes and propose improvements to it.
• Implement scheduled tests as planned for the project.
• Execute the implemented test cases both manually and automatically.
• Verify and issue reports on test case execution results. Examples: defect reports, daily project status report, test coverage debt report, code analysis report, design proposal analysis report.
• Contribute to ensuring that the quality control process is followed as planned, identify any deviations, and propose corrective actions.
• Issue test reports for iteration closure.
• Issue deployment reports to production.
• Issue project completion reports.
• Document lessons learned.
• Document technical and process aspects related to daily tasks (technical documentation, estimate reports, actual effort -timesheets-, task flow).

Qualifications

Required skills: 

• Object-oriented, functional, procedural, and asynchronous programming paradigms.
• Software engineering processes (development cycle and quality control).
• Software quality assurance (unit tests, integration, system, and user acceptance tests).
• Automated testing, performance testing, load testing, stress testing, API testing, among others.
• System design patterns, best practices for development and system testing.
• Documentation (test cases, design diagrams, README.md, API, wiki). (desirable)
• Java, Javascript/Node JS, SQL (desirable)
• Agile development methodologies including SCRUM and Kanban. (desirable)
• Ruby, Python, PHP, JSON (desirable)
• Object-oriented, functional, procedural, and asynchronous programming paradigms.
• Software engineering processes (development cycle and quality control).
• Software quality assurance (unit tests, integration, system, and user acceptance tests).
• Automated testing, performance testing, load testing, stress testing, API testing, among others.
• System design patterns, best practices for development and system testing.
• Documentation (test cases, design diagrams, README.md, API, wiki). (desirable)
• Java, Javascript/Node JS, SQL (desirable)
• Agile development methodologies including SCRUM and Kanban. (desirable)
• Ruby, Python, PHP, JSON (desirable)

Previous experience working with the following tools:

• Tools for test case programming such as Selenium, Jmeter, TestNG, among others.
• POSIX shell management.
• Build tools (Build Managers) and dependency management tools like Maven, Gradle, Grunt, Gulp, WebPack, NPM, and Yarn.
• Tools for continuous integration process management like Travis, Jenkins, and CircleCI. (desirable)
• Relational and non-relational databases. (desirable)
• Source control management tools. (desirable)
• Basic knowledge of Cloud computing: AWS. (desirable)

Academic training:

• Technician or Bachelor in Computer Engineering, Computer Science and related or level of demonstrated equivalent knowledge.

Language:

• Technical and conversational English level B2+ according to the Common European Framework.

Work experience:

• Minimum 3 years of experience in quality assurance, of which at least 2 years are in test-oriented software development.

Additional Information

Benefits:

• 100% work remote from any part in Costa Rica.
• Digital Nomad.
• Monthly Internet connectivity allowance.
• Private health insurance for employees (90/10), 50% for beneficiaries (spouse and children).
• International Health Insurance.
• Marriage leave.
• Bereavement leave.
• Sick days.
• Ergonomic equipment.
• Educational assistance (courses, certifications, books).
• Life insurance for employees.
• $800 referral bonus.
• Personal support through our wellness department.
• Dental insurance.
• Optical insurance.
• Snacks and beverages if you want to work at the office.
• Free Parking.
• Meal allowance if you want to work at the office.
• Flex time
• Our Career Development Manager ensures ongoing, tailored support for each employee’s growth and career progression.

Edify is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage all candidates to apply regardless of their sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national identity, disability, age, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status or any other characteristic protected by law.