What’s great about this role:

• Broad technical scope:  As a QA engineer, you’ll get exposed to the full gamut of our edge platform tech stack: hardware, desktop applications, web-applications, and ML. 
• Cross-functional role: At Instrumental, we are firm believers that the best products are built cross-functionally. You’ll participate in our innovative approach to product development and contribute in each phase. 
• Deep growth potential: As the first full-time QA engineer, you’ll be responsible for helping to build our approach and systems for a future QA team.

We’re looking for someone who:

• Has experience writing and manually executing test cases
• Strongly aligns testing against priorities of project and business 
• Has experience software-based web and/or mobile applications
• Has experience or is willing to learn hardware testing
• Cares deeply about the end-to-end user experience and is willing to flag issues even when they’re “to spec”
• Is comfortable working in a highly cross-functional environment and willing to participate in product, UX, and engineering design sessions to ensure QA concerns are addressed early
• Is super confidant in  communicating with stakeholders and the wider company 
• Can readily work within a Linux environment 
• Has an incredibly high attention to detail
• Is able to do basic statistical calculations in a testing capacity 
• Has basic SQL and/or scripting capabilities (SQL, shell, Python, etc.)


This is a great opportunity for someone with a background in product testing or mechanical engineering to make a switch to the world of software testing.