KUBRA is in growth mode and seeking a talented Quality Assurance Engineer to join our Product Engineering team!
The Quality Assurance Engineer works with the Engineering and Service Delivery teams to ensure products implemented match specifications and overall quality standards. As the QA Engineer, you will work on a wide range of projects, ranging from new and existing front-end web-based (mobile and desktop) applications to back-end API testing. You will also be responsible for working closely with Product Engineering and Product Management teams to create test cases, execute test suites, and create automated test cases for web and mobile applications.
What you get to do every day
- Design test plans from business requirements and specifications
- Analyze requirements, develop testing strategies/frameworks.
- Create automated tests for new and existing functionalities.
- Create automated tests for system performance.
- Regress and verify defects as needed, record test results, and provide metrics.
- Build and deploy software applications on multiple environments
- Design test plans from business requirements and specifications
- Execute complex functional, and unit test cases within test environments with a high degree of accuracy, including manual end-to-end testing
- Maintain test cases to be re-used for recurring and common (standard) projects
- Assist in the parallel running of the current system to ensure the new product results are validated against existing live applications
- Attend and participate in all agile ceremonies with the teams (stand-up, demo, retro, etc.)
- Attend and participate in occasional maintenance windows if needed
- Provide after hours support during maintenance windows as needed
- Assist in documentation for new features.
- Assist in developing personas, use cases, requirements, and acceptance criteria.
What kind of person should you be?
- Ability to create tests with or without business requirements or specifications
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment with a high degree of professionalism
- Excellent problem-solving skills, a love for technical challenges, and a willingness to learn
- Strong organization, time and project management skills and multi-tasking abilities
- Excellent oral and written communication skills including the ability to communicate effectively with all levels of employees and management
- A passion for Quality Assurance and for doing things the right way and a curiosity to dig deep and help find the underlying issue
- Ability to produce accurate and precise work, detect discrepancies and resolve discrepancies while meeting deadlines
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects
- Ability to stay focused on the task at hand, ensuring that timelines are met, and operations are not adversely impacted
- Strong work ethic, positive energy and thrives in a changing, dynamic environment
What skills do you need?
- 4-5 years of experience in a Quality Assurance role
- Demonstrated proficiency with testing Windows based applications
- Experience with testing REST web services
- Experience in API Testing
- Experience in testing on Postman
- Experience with Automated, Performance, Accessibility, and Security testing.
- Experience developing automated tests in one or more of the following languages: C#, JavaScript, Bash, PowerShell
- Experience with testing on K6 Load Testing
- Experience with writing unit/integration test cases is an asset
- Experience with source control systems (i.e. GIT) and tracking tool JIRA.
- Experience with one or more databases (i.e. SQL, Oracle)
- Experience with testing web applications in multiple browsers
- Experience using Windows OS
- Experience with testing tools and frameworks like Selenium, Ranorex, NUnit, XUnit., Cypress
- Experience with test driven development would be an asset.
- Software development experience and exposure to the DevOps is an asset.
What can you expect from us?
- Award-winning culture that fosters growth, diversity and inclusion for all
- Paid day off for your birthday
- Access to LinkedIn learning courses
- Continued education with our education reimbursement program
- Flexible schedules
- Free unlimited access to our refreshment stations (fully stocked with tea, coffee and other beverages)
- Two paid days for volunteer opportunities
KUBRA is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce. We will provide accommodations during the recruitment process upon request. Information received relating to accommodation will be addressed confidentially. We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only candidates under consideration will be contacted.
While we value the skills and experiences listed in our job requirements, we also recognize that talent comes in many forms, and welcome applications from candidates who meet most but not all specified requirements. If you possess a strong desire to learn and grow in a dynamic work environment, apply now!
KUBRA is a fast-growing company that delivers customer communications solutions to some of the largest utility, insurance, and government entities across North America. KUBRA offers billing and payments, mapping, mobile apps, proactive communications, and artificial intelligence solutions for customers. With more than 1.5 billion customer interactions annually, KUBRA services reach over 40% of households in the U.S. and Canada. KUBRA is an operating subsidiary of Hearst.
Our office is small enough to allow creative individuals to flourish, yet large enough to provide long-term stability. We place a tremendous amount of responsibility on our team members to be productive, focused and self-motivated. We offer a casual work environment, competitive compensation and a stellar benefits program.
