Position:  Software Testing Automation Engineer

Location: Chicago Loop

About Raise

Raise, a leading retail payments company and the world’s largest gift card marketplace, connects consumers to buy discounted gift cards or sell their unwanted cards for cash. As the leading retail technology partner with nearly 400 national brands, Raise offers a new type of digital payment for retailers.

Since the company launched in 2013, Raise has saved millions of consumers more than $140 million and has received $147 million in funding from investors including Accel, PayPal, Bessemer Venture Partners and New Enterprise Associates. Raise is headquartered in Chicago with an office in New York.

About The Position

As a Software Testing Automation Engineer at Raise, you'll be responsible for advancing our quality assurance processes and automated quality assurance code on the marketplace. You'll be embedded directly in a 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 end to end test suite and conduct testing across different levels of concern. If you're a hard working problem solver that enjoys breaking things and building automated testing to prevent those things from breaking again, 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 on our mobile applications and web 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
• Experience with JavaScript and web testing frameworks, such as Selenium WebDriver
• Familiarity with cross-browser compatibility concerns among modern browsers, and testing for cross-browser issues
• Employ a working knowledge of testing modern web standards
• 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
• Experience with TDD/ATDD and related tools a plus

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, vision, 401(K) with match, disability and life insurance
• Competitive PTO
• Raise Gives Back- 8 paid hours allotted annually for volunteer opportunities
• Pre-tax commuter program
• Paid parental leave

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