RedShelf is a product-focused, education company that prides itself on having a fun and collaborative environment. Our team is passionate, growth-driven, and always goes the extra mile to deliver the best experience to our users. We offer the excitement and opportunity of a young, fast-growing start-up but with a proven track record of success.
Job Summary:
The Sr. QA Engineer is responsible for defining, developing, and implementing QA best practices and test plans of our products and process to deliver the best software possible.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Write automated tests using Python, identify clear acceptance criteria for development stories, develop test sequences, and train development team members of testing best practices.
- Training development team members of testing best practices
- Working with Development team to enhance and troubleshoot acceptance tests
- Managing defect documentation and tracking, resolution support, and bugfix verification
- Developing and executing pre-release test plans
- Working cross-departmentally with Customer Support and Product Teams to triage and troubleshoot issues and bugs
Requirements:
- 6+ years of experience working in a quality assurance role in an Agile/Scrum environment
- 4 years of automated test writing experience
- Experience designing and maintaining automated tests for whitebox and blackbox testing, executing REST API tests, Git (or other distributed control and source code management systems)
- 2+ years of experience using Selenium
- Ability to identify relationships between bugs and the underlying code while anticipating potential problems and roadblocks
- Ability to lead and mentor QA team
Other Desirable Skills/Experience:
- Python/Django (or equivalent Ruby or Java experience), JavaScript (Ember, React, Angular)
- Jenkins, AWS, Docker
- Nose, pytest, Browserstack/SauceLabs
- Celery, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, Redis, PostgreSQL
- Comfort and/or experience in a startup environment
- Knowledge and appreciation of the advances in higher educational software, course materials, and digital publishing is a plus
- Background and/or experience in educational technology and/or publishing
- Ideal candidate is self-sufficient and highly motivated, self-directed and possesses high energy and a passion for RedShelf
Why RedShelf?
Since inception, RedShelf has undergone tremendous growth by providing the learning community with the cutting-edge technology to transform education for future generations. Our goal is to make course materials affordable and improve student interaction with their course content. We partner with 600+ education institutions and 1200+ higher education publishers to deliver a better, more affordable experience to students using our studying platform.
On top of our competitive compensation package that includes company stock options, we offer an engaging office culture with frequent onsite and offsite events including intramural sports teams, happy hours, volunteer work, and more.
EEO Statement:
RedShelf is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Women, people of color, individuals with a disability, veterans, and others who would enrich the diversity of RedShelf are encouraged to apply.