Junior Quality Engineer
About The Position
As a Junior Quality Engineer at Striveworks, you will be challenged—and trusted—on day one to safeguard and improve the quality of our core products. In this mission-critical work, you will verify that software is performing as designed, document test results and implications, plan and implement new test strategies, and grow in your knowledge of our software. You’re right for this opportunity if you value and possess technical aptitude and enjoy pushing the boundaries of your own capabilities. You are passionate about what is possible with software engineering, data science, and machine learning. You are comfortable following a defined plan while also thinking about how it can be improved, and you communicate results and ideas to your team throughout the process.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or another engineering or science discipline, or completion of a software development boot camp and 0-2 years of relevant professional experience
- Understanding of core programming concepts and basic proficiency in one or more programming languages
- Understanding of software testing concepts and methodology
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills
- Attention to detail
- Ability to clearly communicate technical topics in documents and conversations
- Due to the nature of this role, candidates must be a US person (a US citizen, a US national, or a Green Card holder)
Nice To Haves
- Proficiency with test automation tools such as Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, TestRail, React Testing Library, Postman, or similar
- Exposure to or proficiency with modern software engineering tools and processes (Agile, version control, issue tracking, CI/CD, etc.)
- Proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, or Golang
- Experience with containerization tools such as Docker, Podman, or Kubernetes (k8s)
- Exposure to concepts in machine learning and data science, and/or machine learning libraries like TensorFlow, PyTorch, sk-learn, or similar
- Experience delivering technology solutions in secure government environments
- Eligibility and willingness to obtain and maintain a Secret (or above) US security clearance, or an active Secret (or above) US security clearance
Responsibilities
- Executing manual software tests based on written test plans and scripts
- Executing manual software tests based on your intuition of what is most useful
- Clearly documenting deficiencies, reproduction paths, and ideas for underlying causes
- Clearly documenting and communicating aggregate test results and their implications
- Translating requirements documents and your knowledge of the products’ visions into relevant test plans and scripts
- Envisioning, defining, and communicating new test strategies, plans, or scripts that improve coverage, methodology, and/or efficiency
- Assisting with automating tests
- As able, diagnosing the root causes of test failures
- As able, implementing software fixes to be reviewed by other engineers
- As able, building tools and infrastructure to improve testing
- Continually expanding your knowledge of Striveworks’ software and your ability to contribute to it
Benefits
- Medical/dental/vision insurance
- Voluntary life, long-term disability, accident, and hospital indemnity insurance
- HSA and FSA (including dependent care FSA) plans
- 401(k) plan
- Unlimited PTO
- Paid parental leave
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Number of Employees
51-100 employees
