Job Type: Consulting/Contractor
Location: U.S.
Department: Software Engineering
Position: Senior QA Engineer for exciting SaaS startup
Website: https://www.illumy.com
illumy is looking for a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to join our experienced SaaS communications team. We are looking for candidates in the United States that have experience with cloud-based software development, are adept at drafting test cases and QA documentation, are excited about overseeing the full testing lifecycle, want to join a team of QA engineers, and are happy to report progress to the development and leadership teams. We are looking for candidates in the U.S. only that are effective at working remotely and as a part-time contributor (and potentially growing to full-time). If you’re in a full-time job, but have some extra time after hours to help with an exciting garage-band startup, we’d love to chat!
About illumy:
We are building a communications “super app” that combines email, messaging, group chat, voice, video, and phone into a single seamless cloud-based experience on any device. No more jumping between different applications, accounts, and user interfaces. illumy is fast, fun, modern, private, and secure. Enter the new world of hyper-communications!
Our team and location:
illumy is a startup headquartered in Silicon Valley and made up of team members from leading companies such as RingCentral, Zoom, Amazon AWS, Cisco, Intel, and Comodo. Our team members are located across many U.S. time zones and work remotely while collaborating through illumy.
As a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer you will:
-Meet with our software development and product teams to determine QA efforts and direction.
-Work with our QA team to design and implement test procedures.
-Write new test cases and maintain a comprehensive test bank.
-Build and maintain the QA test processes and tools.
-Perform manual and automated testing to identify and report bugs and issues.
-Review and report on quality assurance testing results.
-Respond to requests from development, product, and management teams.
You may be a good fit for this role if you:
-Have experience working with a QA team with a focus on expanding test coverage, ensuring feature completeness, delivering high performance, and providing rock solid security and substantial scalability.
-Have knowledge of manual and automation testing frameworks and methods.
-Have experience writing test scenarios, test cases, and maintaining a test bank.
-Have the ability to isolate, identify, report, and track issues within Jira Cloud.
-Understand how to test backend platforms including microservices, databases, and APIs.
-Understand how to test frontend software on the web, desktop, iOS, and Android.
-Have expertise with modern QA tools.
-Are ready to work with remote team members (in the U.S. and abroad)
-Have a degree in computer science or related fields or equivalent work experience
-Have great interpersonal skills and problem-solving abilities
-Speak fluent English
Bonus points if you:
-Have experience with Agile process management using Scrum and Kanban
-Understand high availability systems
-Speak Russian
Please visit our website at www.illumy.com to learn more about what we’re up to and the communications revolution we are bringing to the market! We look forward to meeting you!
Note1: We video interview each person to meet you fully. If you are camera shy and are unwilling to participate in a video interview, please do not apply.
Note2: We are only interested in U.S. candidates, please do not apply if you are outside of the U.S. (we have means to confirm this).
Note3: We like to see LinkedIn profiles ahead of an interview to see your prior work history and recommendations.
Note4: We are not looking to work with agencies or outsourced providers at this time.
