Quality Engineer @ Ontra

About Ontra
Ontra is the global leader in AI legal tech for private markets. Powered by industry-leading AI, data from 1M+ contracts, and a global network of legal professionals, Ontra’s private markets technology platform streamlines and optimizes critical legal and compliance workflows across the full fund lifecycle. Ontra’s purpose-built solutions automate contracts, streamline obligation management, digitize entity management, and surface insights. Trusted by more than 800 global GPs, investment banks, law firms, and advisors - including nine of the top ten PEI-ranked firms worldwide - Ontra helps firms focus on what’s important to them.

Our Culture
Ontra is a remote-first company that values the power of connection. We find innovative ways to stay connected, both virtually and in person. By promoting ownership, inspiring creativity, and championing collaboration, Ontra enables you to shape your impact and growth. Our commitment to innovation extends beyond our technology; it’s embedded in our culture, and AI plays a crucial role in everything we do.

Our culture is one where belonging is the cornerstone of every interaction, rooted in acceptance and respect for all. Our commitment to inclusion begins at the application process, ensuring a fair and equitable hiring experience that values the unique contributions you bring from day one.

About the Role

Ontra is seeking a Quality Engineer reporting to our Engineering Manager on our Quality team.

For this job, we are currently only hiring candidates based in the United States. For more information on where we employ, please see below.

We’re looking for someone excited to embed and collaborate with cross-functional teams to perform exploratory testing, enhance automated testing solutions, and integrate test suites into CI/CD pipelines for seamless software releases.

If you are a proactive and accountable quality engineer curious about new technologies and trends, and thrive in collaborative environments, we’d love to get to know you!

What You’ll Do

Software Testing: Quickly gain an understanding of Ontra applications and their relevant functionalities to effectively contribute to quality assurance processes, including manual and automated testing. You are a product expert in your domain.
Relationship Building: Establish strong, collaborative relationships with peers across QE, Software Engineering, and Product teams to facilitate seamless communication and coordination.
Automation Framework: Enhance our Playwright automation framework and supporting tooling, ensuring they are maintainable, reusable, and scalable.
Quality Advocacy: Champion quality processes and foster a collaborative team ownership mindset around quality. Empower your team to own testing and quality from project inception through production and post-production deploy.
Enabling Continuous Delivery: Enhance, stabilize, and speed up our Smoke and Regression Automated Testing Suites integrated into our CI pipelines to support Continuous Delivery and continuous quality checks of our main application.

What You’ll Bring

Experience: 3+ years of significant experience with manual testing and automated testing tools like Playwright and/or Cypress.
Programming Skills: Intermediate to expert level proficiency in TypeScript (preferred) or JavaScript, and familiarity with Ruby or any other object-oriented programming languages.
Cross-functional Collaboration: Intermediate experience in collaborating with cross-functional teams, including QA, Software Engineering,, Product, and DevOps.
CI/CD & Infrastructure: Intermediate experience with CI/CD pipelines using GitLab or other Cloud Based CI Providers, as well as familiarity with AWS infrastructure technologies.
Issue Management System: Familiarity with bugs/issue management systems, such as Jira, Trello, Gitlab, etc.

Pay Transparency
Ontra takes individual candidate location, experience, and skills into consideration when determining compensation. The base pay range is listed below. Additionally, all positions are eligible for unit-based equity grants.

Some positions may be eligible for additional compensation, such as commission or other variable compensation structures, which is not included in the below base pay range.

If you are selected to participate in our interview process, your Talent Acquisition Partner will share more details about the total compensation package for the role.

Base Pay Range

$146,000—$204,000 USD

Hiring Locations
We currently hire exclusively in the locations listed below. Select jobs may have more specific location requirements due to business needs.

United States
Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, Minnesota, North Carolina, New Jersey, Nevada, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington

APAC
Hong Kong, Singapore

EMEA
United Kingdom

Benefits Snapshot

Remote-first working policy, with office hubs in SF, NYC, Santa Barbara, and London
Twice yearly team offsites for in-person collaboration
Paid flexible time off policy
Paid parental leave and benefits
Employer-supported retirement contributions, varying by country
Monthly phone and internet reimbursement
Company-sponsored LinkedIn Learning accounts, department budgets for professional development, and robust onboarding program
Various options for medical, dental, and vision insurance

Travel
Occasional travel is required for Ontra employees, including typically at least twice per year to attend team and larger group off-sites for in-person collaboration. For some roles, additional travel may be required based on the requirements of the role and business need.

Inclusivity
Ontra is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Ontra will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact [email protected].

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Note on Employment Verification: All employees hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in their particular location.

Note to External Agencies: We are not accepting any blind submissions or resumes/CVs from recruitment agencies. Any candidates sent to Ontra will NOT be accepted or considered as a submission without a signed agreement in place.

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