Who are we?

NowPow, whose name is a play on knowledge is power, is a women-owned and led technology business based on Chicago’s south side. NowPow’s multi-sided platform is a personalized community referral management solution that enables care professionals – social workers, physicians, justice workers – to manage and close the loop on health and social service referrals and directly support patients, members, and clients in their own self care. NowPow helps people get the care they need, whether they are managing chronic health and social conditions or just staying well.

The Role:

We are looking for a Quality Assurance Engineering Intern to join our Technology Department. You will work with the engineering team to help execute our agile testing strategy with our releases. In addition, you will help us expand and maintain a test automation framework and compose automated tests for our NowPow platform. A good candidate will be excited to take on new challenges, be able to implement test strategies, and be ready to jump into the details of the test execution.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with the Engineering and Product team to help execute the test plans for each NowPow release.
• Participate in product requirement and design reviews with product managers and other engineers.
• Develop Test plans and Test cases for the functional areas to be tested.
• Execute test cases during the development sprints and document results.
• Expand our test automation strategy with the Engineering team
• Design, build and maintain a test automation suite
• Participate in the regression testing of the product
• Drive adoption of best practices in code health, testing, and maintainability.
• Provide feedback for improving development processes.
• Analyze and decompose complex software systems and collaborate with and influence others to improve the overall design.
• Work with the Customer Support team to reproduce customer problems and to provide solutions to customers
• Accurately determine, assign, track and manage project task, activity, documentation, time information per internal standards.

Requirements:

• Enrolled in a quantitative degree - computer science, or equivalent.
• Experience with Web UI Technologies and Microsoft .NET (ASP.NET, C#, ADO.NET) is a plus.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Comfortable with new technologies.
• Passion to build great software.
• Experience with Visual Studio, Git, and developer toolchains (such as node, npm, Grunt, Gulp or Webpack) a plus.
• Comfortable writing SQL queries and experience with SQL Server a plus.
• Comfortable absorbing new technologies quickly
• Passion to build great software

Why NowPow?

We work at NowPow because we care! NowPowers are passionate about our mission and are excited about the opportunities and challenges we face. At NowPow, we cultivate a culture of collaboration and respect, where everyone is a valued team member.

Our people and our culture are important to us and make working at NowPow special. We invest in the self-care of our team and provide competitive benefits to support this. We celebrate our successes every week with a company-wide happy hour on Fridays and recognize those who went above and beyond in their work. Outside of work, we have fun through company events such as laser tag, ice skating, and heading to the ballpark for beautiful weather and a baseball game – and look forward to being able to do so again!

We are looking for highly motivated and hard-working individuals to join our team and help us connect health care to self-care. Please apply now to join our growing team!

Equal Employment Opportunity

NowPow is an Equal Opportunity Employer. NowPow evaluates applicants for employment on the basis of qualifications, merit, and work-related criteria without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital status, citizenship, national origin, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. Our management team is dedicated to this policy with respect to recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, benefits, associate activities and general treatment during employment.