Quality Assurance Engineer

About the Role
Validity is seeking an experienced Quality Assurance Engineer (QA Engineer) to join our QA team. You will work closely with the Product and Engineering teams throughout the development lifecycle. You will contribute to the enhancement of the test infrastructure by developing and implementing manual test plans and automated testing that ensures a robust, high-quality end-product. 
Specifically, you will:
Be instrumental in making our commitment to quality and trust come to life, leading the way towards automating our quality assurance efforts. You'll be crafting unique approaches to solving difficult problems, contributing to the continuous improvement of our engineering practices. You'll see your ideas come to life as part of a growing, success-driven team.
Position Duties and Responsibilities

• Understand product requirements, work closely with developers and product management to create test plans and test cases
• Participate in and in some cases lead requirement reviews, test case reviews, and planning sessions
• Review user interfaces for conformity and functionality
• Find, isolate, document, attribute, and track bugs through resolution
• Develop automated test scripts using Cypress for CI/CD
• Interpret and report testing results, and be a vocal proponent for quality in every phase of the development process
• Maintain documentation of test results and performance testing to assist in debugging and modifications
• Produce clear and concise tickets
• Conduct and continuously improve upon processes for regression testing and deployment

Required Experience, Skills, and Education

• 4+ years of experience working as a Quality Assurance Engineer
• 4+ years of expertise in testing methodologies, experience with standard QA and development tools, and the ability to operate within short release cycles
• 3+ years of software QA automation experience working with the following technologies: Java, JavaScript
• Experience in automation testing using tools such as Cypress, CircleCI, Selenium, Jenkins, etc.
• Experience working in an Agile development environment; working with product and development teams to determine QA parameters
• Experience with native UI test frameworks and dev tools
• Hands-on experience testing REST APIs using tools like Postman or Swagger
• Willingness to learn new technologies and continuously develop skills

Preferred Experience, Skills, and Education

• Working knowledge of continuous integration
• Experience in developing and maintaining CI/CD process for enterprise SaaS
• Experience with Multitenant architectures
• Experience testing embedded products running on Embedded Linux/RTOS and/or bare metal 
• Well-versed in tiered web application architecture and databases