Position: QA Engineer Intern
Location: Chicago, IL
Reports to: IT Director

Company Description

In the past eight years, Zoro has grown from a group of 6 people working out of a 2,000 square foot building, offering fewer than 100,000 products to a group of 300+ working out of two locations, offering more than 2,000,000 unique products.

Imagine what you could help us achieve as the QA Engineer Intern!

Job Description

Zoro is offering one paid internship in our software Quality Assurance (QA) team for the 2019-2020 academic year.

This is an opportunity that will enable you to work as an intern while you finish your studies. The start/end dates and working times can be flexible based upon your school schedule.

The individual chosen will learn about supporting IT development through the process of software testing. The Zoro Quality Assurance team is charged with releasing quality software, quickly. As a QA Engineer Intern you will have an opportunity to work side-by-side with software and quality assurance engineers where you will learn application development, software testing and test automation skills.

Our team is small, friendly and personable. A Zoro QA Engineer Intern becomes a part of the Zoro family and is fully embraced by the team on day 1. The intern should expect to not only contribute to work that actually matters but that is critical to the strategic direction of the company and growth of the brand. Our company celebrates fresh ideas and welcomes contributions and questions.

Responsibilities

• Specifying, designing, implementing and testing automation framework 
• Executing automated tests on multiple environments using multiple browsers.
• Expanding automation framework to provide additional test capabilities.
• Designing, coding and documenting automated test cases within a defined framework to ensure the quality of our product.
• Translating existing manual regression test cases into automated tests.
• Analyzing existing systems to find areas for improvement.
• Conducting diagnostic analysis and troubleshooting to resolve complex software issues.
• Evolving automated test framework to achieve higher test throughout, with increased accessibility and test execution flexibility.

Qualifications

Preferably, our QA Engineer Intern will be in his or her final year of a computer science or information technology program at an accredited college or university. We realize that many students do not have deep exposure to the information technology industry, but our ideal intern will show interest and aptitude – not necessarily mastery of specific concepts.

Exposure to the following technologies and concepts are desirable:

• Software Development
• Software Testing
• Software Testing Automation tools
• Programming in Object Oriented language such as C#, JavaScript, Java, Python

Zoro is an Equal Opportunity Workplace and an Affirmative Action Employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.