Position:  Quality Engineer

Location: Chicago Loop

About Raise

Raise is the largest, most trusted marketplace where our mission is to help consumers make their money worth more. Shoppers can buy discounted gift cards to over 3,000 brands or sell their unwanted gift cards for cash through our mobile applications and website.

Raise partners with retailers to offer a new type of digital payment, and since our launch in 2013, we have saved consumers over $100M to date. Raise is headquartered in Chicago with an office in New York.

About The Position

As a Quality Engineer at Raise, you'll be a quality implementor in Raise's marketplace. You'll be embedded directly in an agile team with engineers, designers, and product managers to build our technology at speed while never sacrificing quality standards. At Raise, developers write their own functional and unit tests; your job is to own the test suite and conduct testing across different levels of concern. If you're a smart, hard working problem solver that enjoys team leadership and breaking things, this is the perfect role for you.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to derive effective test cases from business requirements
• Own and participate in end-to-end feature testing; design test strategy, test plan and test cases
• Test from within the mindset of the end user
• Identify, reproduce and triage defects. Drive robust root cause analysis for defects found for Raise’s mobile application and web site components
• Continuously re-assess test coverage based on feedback from developers, product owners and internal/external customers and develop automation to close the gaps
• Work closely with team members and stakeholders to evangelize quality for the given product area
• Champion quality efforts for your product area(s) and be THE voice of quality

Skills & Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent combination of technical education and work experience
• 3+ years of QA experience preferably with web and/or enterprise applications
• Excellent understanding of different test types, tools and methodologies
• Ability to review complex software specs with a focus on testability, test automaton and quality improvements
• Hands on experience developing test strategies, test plans and test cases
• Experience with test automation tools and scripting
• Excellent problem solving, analytical and technical troubleshooting skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with an ability to develop relationships with external team(s) and stakeholders
• A quality mindset and passion for testing
• (bonus) Experience with TDD/ATDD and related tools

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, vision, 401(K) with match, disability and life insurance
• Minimum 15 days PTO plus 11 paid holidays
• Raise Gives Back- 8 paid hours allotted annually for volunteer opportunities
• Pre-tax commuter program
• Paid parental leave
• $5,000 adoption credit
• Breakfast and healthy snacks provided every day and catered lunch on Fridays

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