Software Test Engineer

Awardco - Lindon, UT

Full-time - Entry Level

Lindon, UT

Publishing Industries

About the position

Awardco is reimagining the workplace to be more rewarding, supportive, and fun for everyone. As one of the fastest-growing companies in the employee experience industry, our mission is to help employees love what they do, love where they work, and get recognized for their efforts-especially our own employees! And as winners of Glassdoor's Best Places to Work, Best in Brightest in the Nation, and Great Place to Work, we do much more than talk the talk. As a QA Engineer here at Awardco, you will contribute to the constant improvement of our platform. You will develop an extensive knowledge of the Awardco product, and be solely responsible for catching any problems prior to release.

Responsibilities

• Review and analyze system specifications
• Report bugs and errors to development teams
• Help troubleshoot issues
• Conduct post-release/post-implementation testing
• Develop clear and engaging documentation for both automated and manual testing efforts
• Create and execute test cases for new team-level features
• Conduct ad-hoc and scripted manual tests
• Design and develop automated tests for critical paths of Awardco's platform
• Contribute tools and improvements to an evolving test automation framework
• Convert manual test cases into automated cases in an existing framework using Cypress with JavaScript

Requirements

• Schooling and/or experience (Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, Information Systems majors, QA/Development Bootcamp)
• 1+ years proven experience as a Software Test Engineer, QA Engineer, or similar role
• 1+ years of experience with JavaScript
• 1+ years of experience working with SQL
• 1+ years of experience with a Test Automation Framework (Cypress, Selenium, Cucumber, etc)
• Experience with Python and Locust is a plus
• Experience with various automation testing types (Unit, Functional, Load, Security, Behavioral, Integration, Component, End-to-End)
• Experience working with APIs and web networking protocols
• Understanding of the agile software development process
• Familiarity with manual testing types (Regression, Black Box, White Box, Sanity)
• Ability to document and troubleshoot errors using test management software (JIRA)
• Experience with continuous testing in a CI/CD environment
• Excellent communication skills, specifically suggestions with UI design and functionality
• Attention to detail
• Basic troubleshooting and analytical skills (identifying bugs, feature defects, etc)
• Good verbal and written communication skills (has the ability to build a good relationship between developers and product managers)
• Has the ability to manually test and follow the QA testing process in the platform

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Python and Locust is a plus

Benefits

• Great Place to Work certified
• One of the Best and Brightest companies to work for
• Ranked on the Salt Lake Tribune's Top Workplaces
• Leadership that listens
• New 200,000 sq. ft. headquarters