QA Engineer
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Job Description
Posit is seeking a QA Engineer with solid analysis and automated test case creation experience. The team you will be working with builds IDEs for Data Scientists. We will continue our focus of creating a delightful user experience for our Data Science community that is focussed on both the R and Python languages.
You will be working on a team that has been in the progress of building features for our users over the last 912 months. We are looking for a QA Engineer who can ramp up quickly to our technologies while also being able to contribute in our day to day work.
This role offers a great opportunity to contribute to the quality of our software through understanding what our customers want what our stakeholders are expecting careful testing and thoughtful analysis. If you are an optimizer who is passionate about learning new systems driving new technology and working with amazing people this job could be for you.
What youll own:
- Help define manual and automated test strategies and Definition of Done for projects. The team you will own quality for handles many distinct features and needs a champion of quality for each one. You will drive your team to determine what needs to be tested and automated define regression and validation requirements solicit feedback from stakeholders and document the test processes for the rest of the team.
- As a Quality Engineer for the team you will own the overall coordination and communication of your day to day work.
- Working closely with QA and Engineering leadership to ensure we have the correct process and strategy for our day to day work.
- Create maintain and enhance automated test suites Depending on the project these automated tests could be endtoend API or load and performance. It is critical for the team to have automated tests and a longterm automation strategy and we would love to hear from you how best to accomplish that.
- Domain expertise over time. QA engineers work heavily with other teams and often act as a connective glue between teams. To be effective you will need to learn from these other teams. This will include learning about the Posit products and what is most needed for the projects we support.
- User advocacy for new features and enhancements to products and projects
What youll help with:
- Collaborate with the developers and other stakeholders to make sure we are building the right things and building things right
- Collaborate with other QA Engineers to coordinate test coverage assess risk holistically be mentored in areas where you may not have expertise.
- Be a quality voice for the team and what is needed to deliver high value products to our customers
What youll teach:
- A quality mindset across the team. Everyone on the team owns quality but QA should help set the tone of user advocacy
- Ability to communicate across teams and stakeholders. You will be working with your QA team Engineers Engineering leadership and outside stakeholders.
What youll learn:
- An appreciation for data science workflows
- A deeper understanding of IDE and environments needed
- New skills related to data science patterns and best practices
You have QA Skills:
- The desire to help other teams and work with them daily in a highly collaborative environment
- Experience in the Typescript language
- Familiarity the R Language
- Experience web based interfaces and IDE applications
- Solid experience authoring automated tests.
- Able to write and understand automated tests in Typescript and Python (Playwright preferred)
- Experience creating highlevel test strategies for multiple products
- Curiosity and a willingness to learn new technologies
- A humble collaborative approach to producing highquality software
- 3 years of professional experience in software Quality Assurance or Software Engineering
Nice to have:
- Experience with Data Science and Python user persona
- Data mining or extracting usable data from valuable data sources
- Carrying out preprocessing of structured and unstructured data
Within one month you will
- Get to know everyone on the product team and become familiar with our current. software development practices.
- Work through our onboarding guide and get familiar with our products.
- Verify validate and build test automation for release work.
Within three months you will
- Participate in feature planning and provide feedback.
- Feel comfortable navigating the codebase and understand how things fit together.
- Worked with the QA team to ensure you have the test automation plans needed to support your teams needs.
- Established a learning relationship with your teammates
- Own your teams release coordination
Within twelve months you will
- Plan features and drive their development.
- Share your expertise and insights with team members contributing to the collective knowledge and skill set of the engineering team.
- Point to parts of the products that you have significantly contributed to.
Posit offerscompetitive compensation with extensive humanfirst peoplefocused benefits to prioritize your personal and financial wellbeing. Individual pay decisions are based on a number of factors including qualifications for the role experience level and skillset. This hiring range reflects base salary and assumes that the job will be performed in the United States.
Working at Posit:
- We welcome all talented colleagues and are committed to a culture that represents diversity in all its forms.
- We prioritize giving ourselves focus time to get deep work done. We minimize meetings and attempt to operate asynchronously.
- We are a learning organization and take mentorship and career growth seriously. We hope to learn from you and we anticipate that you will also deepen your skills influence and leadership as a result of working at Posit.
- We operate under a unique sustainable business model: We have over 50 of our engineering dedicated to creating free and open source software. We are profitable and we plan to be around decades from now.
- Posit is a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) and a Certified B Corporation which means our opensource mission is codified into our charter. As a result our corporate decisions balance the communitys interests customers employees and shareholders. Hear more about why we think this matters here.
Notable:
We offer competitive compensation with extensive humanfirst peoplefocused benefits to prioritize your personal and financial wellbeing. These benefits apply to fulltime positions only.
- 100 of medical dental and vision insurance premiums are covered for employees and their families! Fertility and genderaffirming healthcare is included in all of our plans.
- Supplemental mental health and wellness benefits are available via Ginger even if you dont opt in to our insurance plans including Ginger for teen family members.
- Posits genderneutral paid parental leave policy covers all new parents including foster and adoptive parents.
- All fulltime employees are eligible for 401k enrollment starting on day one.
- After six months of employment Posit provides a substantial yearly match to employee 401K contributions.
- An annual profitsharing bonus for employees recognizes our teams contributions to company performance across the year.
- We are a 100 distributed team. You are also welcome to come into our Boston office.
- We offer a $400 monthly reimbursement for coworking space rental if you prefer to work away from home.
- Our Lifestyle Savings Account offers an initial deposit of $1800 and then an additional quarterly stipend of $375 to cover the costs of professional development wellness financial health charitable giving and remote work support.
- We provide a flexible environment with a generous vacation policy that encourages a minimum of four weeks PTO per year plus 13 paid company holidays.
Are you excited about this role but not sure if your experience aligns with every qualification in the job description Thats okay. We know multiple perspectives are essential for a thriving organization and wed still love to hear from you!
Posit is committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage applicants of different backgrounds cultures genders experiences abilities and perspectives to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color national origin religion sexual orientation gender gender identity age physical disability or length of time spent unemployed.
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