Software QA Engineer (Philippines)

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Working for DreamHost you can be a steward of your own career. We invest in our people, we promote from within the organization when possible and we offer extensive training to aid in your success. In this role, we offer a company-issued laptop, the flexibility to work from home and during local business hours. We are proud to be a US employer with a fantastic culture and the ability to offer so much to our employees.

Note regarding location: This is a remote position within the Philippines only. This position is only open to people living in the Philippines.

Overview

The Software QA Engineer's role is to develop, establish, and enforce quality assurance standards and measures for products and services created within the organization. This individual will also gather and analyze data in support of business cases, proposed projects, and product requirements. This will include writing test plans and scripts for tracking defects and fixes in product development, software application development, and deployment, and executing these test plans to ensure overall software quality.

Responsibilities

• Develop and establish quality assurance measures and testing standards for new applications, products, and/or enhancements to existing applications throughout their development and product life cycles

• Conduct internal audits to measure and assure adherence to established QA standards for software development, application integration, and information system performance, and corresponding documentation

• Create and execute test plans and scripts that will determine optimal application performance according to specifications

• Verify and revise quality assurance standards as needed

• Ensure that testing activities allow applications to meet business requirements and systems goals, fulfill end-user requirements, and identify existing or potential issues as well as provide possible solutions

• Collaborate with software/systems personnel in application testing, such as system, unit, regression, load, and acceptance testing methods

• Make recommendations for improvement of applications to programmers and software developers or engineers

• Communicate test progress, test results, and other relevant information to project stakeholders and management

• Test any new software to ensure integration into company systems meets requirements, system compliance, and technical specifications

• Analyze formal test results in order to discover and report any defects, bugs, errors, configuration issues, and interoperability flaws

• Assist in the development of change control processes, practices, and guidelines for new and existing technologies 

• Participate in developing, distributing, and coordinating in-depth end-user reviews for modified and new systems or applications

• Cultivate and disseminate knowledge of quality assurance best practices

• Knowledge of UNIX tools, particularly debugging tools

• Knowledge of test management tools such as Jira and Xray

• Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Travis, Ansible)

• Experience with GitHub/GitLab

• Familiarity with SSH, FTP, SCP, HTTP, DNS protocols

• Familiarity with JavaScript, Python, and/or Perl

• Strong skills testing user interfaces with relational database backends

• Ability to communicate to individuals with various technical abilities

• Ability to provide detailed step-by-step information in the form of bug and testing reports

• Ability to determine when there is a skill gap with new products

• Be able to read and speak English

• 5 years of progressive automation experience