Software Automation Quality Engineer

Company Overview

Glass Lewis is the world’s choice for governance solutions. We enable institutional investors and publicly-listed companies to make sustainable decisions based in research and data. We cover 30,000+ meetings each year, across approximately 100 global markets.

Our customers include the majority of the world’s largest pension plans, mutual funds, and asset managers, collectively managing over $40 trillion in assets. We have teams located across the United States, Europe, and Asia-Pacific giving us global reach with a local perspective on the important governance issues. Founded in 2003, Glass Lewis is headquartered in San Francisco, California with additional offices in Kansas City, Missouri; Paris, France; Limerick, Ireland; Karlsruhe, Germany; Sydney, Australia; Tokyo, Japan; and Manila, Philippines.

Position:

We are hiring a Software Automation Quality Engineer to play a key role in the team driving our efforts in quality assurance. The right candidate is highly motivated, self-driven, eager to learn, and passionate about taking ownership of their contribution to the product. We are a highly professional, self-organising team working in a truly agile environment. Our culture is built on being open to new ideas and feedback and we believe in building great software, technical excellence and having fun.

Responsibilities:

• Key responsibility to ensure that all quality checks, risk assessment and processes and procedures have been followed by the teams in relation to all releases to production.
• Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities with our teams to ensure quality and test coverage.
• Collaborate in an agile environment, actively participating in agile ceremonies including Daily Stand-ups
• Assist teams in developing test plans and cases to ensure accuracy and completeness.
• Review user stories requirements, specifications and technical design documents when required
• Work with agile teams to identify integration points for new work
• Create and maintain dependency documentation for system wide regression
• Assist with execution of manual testing with a close eye to transition to automation testing.

Requirements

Above all we value communication, common sense and interpersonal skills. The ideal candidate will bring:

• Strong documentation and communication skills.
• Willingness to give and take feedback and share knowledge
• A strong desire to learn and improve.
• The ability to influence QA and testing best practices within your team
• Willingness to transition/learn to automated testing

From a technical perspective we would require a minimum of 5 years QA experience through the entire lifecycle of an enterprise application. Use of the following technologies and methodologies would be a distinct advantage:

• Proven work experience in software development
• Proven work experience in software quality assurance
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes
• Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases
• Hands-on experience in API testing
• Hands-on experience with both white box and black box testing
• Hands-on experience with automated testing tools ( Cypress and Playwright)
• Hands-on experience in Performance testing ( e.g: JMeter)
• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting (Java Script)
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process

Nice to have's

• Experience with security testing is a plus
• BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject