Software QA Engineer for a well known personal finance company in Menlo Park, CA at OSI Engineering

We’re looking for a Software Quality Assurance Engineer to join our team! The ideal candidate will have experience with web and/or mobile testing for consumer-facing products.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with colleagues to gain a thorough understanding of the product's functionality and overarching purpose. Utilize these insights to develop comprehensive test documentation and strategy.
• Use documentation and networking tools to determine whether bugs are caused by the server or client.
• Identify and document clear steps to reproduce bugs and work with the team to prioritize test cases.
• Collaborate closely with Developers, Product Managers, and QA team to clarify inconsistencies between specifications, test cases, and product behavior.
• Make recommendations to improve product reliability, performance, and quality assurance best practices and processes.
• Expand and improve automation scripts created in Maestro and Cypress frameworks.
• Investigate, troubleshoot, and enter reproducible application issues into Jira.
• Investigate and evaluate new testing technologies and products for web and mobile applications.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years professional experience of web and/or mobile testing for a consumer-facing product.
• API expertise (REST) on how the client communicates to/from servers.
• Experience maintaining and updating test plans/test suites in a very fast paced feature changing environment.
• Ability to think outside of the box and beyond the obvious to uncover behind-the-scenes type bugs.
• Experience with at least 2 of the following: JavaScript, Selenium, Cypress, Appium, Java, and Jenkins.
• Act as a strong advocate for quality in the product development process.
• Experience with defect tracking software (Jira).
• Ability to triage problems, prioritize accordingly, and propose a resolution.
• BS/MS in computer science or equivalent work experience.

Compensation: $45-55/hr. W2

Location: Menlo Park, CA (onsite 2 days/week)

Type: Contract (6 months with possibility of extension)