Software Quality Assurance Engineer

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NowSecure is the mobile app security software company trusted by the world’s most demanding organizations and most advanced security teams. Only the NowSecure Platform delivers fully automated 360-degree coverage of mobile app security testing with the speed, accuracy, and efficiency that the modern enterprise demands. NowSecure identifies the broadest array of security threats, compliance gaps, and privacy issues in custom-developed, commercial and business-critical mobile apps through superior testing and analysis across SaaS, on-prem and MSP scenarios. More enterprises and government agencies trust NowSecure than any other as the fastest path to deeper mobile app security testing and certification, including 4 of top 5 banks, 4 of top 5 Federal Agencies, top retail & media brands and the top penetration testing service providers. 

We were founded with a mobile-only focus and a strong DNA in forensics and enterprise security. Currently, we have authored five technical books on mobile security for Android and iOS. Our engineers and researchers believe in creating conversations and supporting the community, so we build and share open source tools. 

We have offices in Chicago, IL, Seattle, WA and McLean, VA.  Our workforce is spread across the globe, just like the mobile devices we aim to protect. We believe that the world is flat as we seek to hire the best and not just the best in a region. You must dig being a tinkerer, be someone who gets into details and foremost be a self-starter - we strongly believe in GSD.

As a Software Quality Assurance Engineer, you will be part of a highly skilled software engineering team responsible for developing products for the mobile security space. We are seeking a candidate with a proven rigor of QA (BVT, Regression testing, new test plan/cases and updating those plans), distributed systems experience, knows how to work with node, can look at a bash script and though not be a wizard at bash be able to modify/customize, manual and some automation skills to work with the engineering and product teams to build system-level test automation, execute automated tests and perform manual tests as it relates to usability and overall UX. The successful candidate will work as part of a team in order to:

  • Design, develop, implement and improve test methodologies, test plans and test cases
  • Perform manual and automated functional and full system tests for NowSecure’s security products
  • Review bug descriptions, functional requirements and design documents
  • Work in an agile/iterative environment
  • Create, deploy and maintain automated system tests to replicate real-world scenarios

Experience Required:

  • 4+ years of working on progressively more complicated projects 
  • Troubleshooting skils - diagnose where things are breaking (and why)
  • Detail oriented - digs deep into issues
  • Proven problem solver - can come up with workarounds to get unblocked
  • Experience working in a REST API first development environment
  • 2+ years experience in Software Quality Assurance and/or software development experience
  • 2+ years experience testing distributed applications/services
  • 2+ years experience working with one or more common Internet protocols such as IP, TCP, HTTP/S, DNS, FTP, and/or SSL
  • 1+ year experience with Linux and command line instructions
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
  • Strong communication skills, highly driven, positive attitude, self-motivated and very flexible
  • Ability to work independently, and with a team

Preferred Candidates Will Possess experience in:

  • Github
  • Frameworks like selenium, nightmare.js, xctest, UIAutomation, Appium
  • Developing and maintaining test automation scripts, libraries and frameworks
  • Security software
  • Experience working with remote development teams
  • Experience with continuous integration systems like Jenkins
  • Experience with Linux internals
  • Experience with client/server testing
  • Experience working with scripting languages such as Python and PHP

What we offer:

  • Competitive Salary
  • Comprehensive Medical/Dental/Vision coverage
  • Flexible spending accounts including Transportation & .
  • 401k with Employer matching
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Happy hours and of course, Ping Pong!
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Our headquarters are located in the Chicago Loop, standing at the foot of the busy LaSalle Street canyon. Our office is located in an art deco-style skyscraper with a pinnacle statue of Ceres, Chicago's tallest building from 1930 to 1965. Easy access to great restaurants and rooftop views!

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