Software Test Engineer at Simply Business in Boston, MA

This role is also more than a practitioner role - it’s a coaching role as well. The focus of “testing” in the industry has missed a massive opportunity of spreading the wealth of testing knowledge into engineering organizations. You will be working directly with your peers to identify and communicate risks before development starts. By coaching and mentoring developers to have the necessary skills to understand quality and know how to test, they can master testing to not only increase the efficiency and capacity of their teams, but also write higher quality software.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define testing strategies pre-implementation
• Research and gain knowledge in specialized areas in the testing domain (e.g. exploratory testing, usability testing, contract testing, etc.)
• Emphasizing the importance of executing the right tests
• Collaborate with product managers, have an understanding of what to test & deliver
• Promote a culture where the team creates well-defined testable acceptance criteria
• Drive the team to perform testing during the earliest stages of implementation
• Review code to advocate for testability and development anti-patterns
• Assist in root cause analysis with customer facing issues & educate gaps in test approach
• Monitor & enhance test automation coverage and test strategy
• Identify enhancements or implementations of current/new testing tools
• Work with testing community to improve test strategies & automation efficiencies
• Create educational content, including workshops, tutorials & documentation

What We Are Looking For:

• Critical & Lateral thinking
• Systematic & Systems thinking
• Change agent with effective soft skills
• Mindset to solve problems not symptoms
• Thought leader with a passion for training, mentoring and coaching others
• Understand the value of different types of testing techniques and when to apply them
• Fast to adapt to constant changes and feeling comfortable with it
• Comfortable pairing with engineers in a distributed, co-located environment
• Focus on what is most important at all times, realizing when to change the game plan and when to stick to it
• Great communication skills, both within and outside the team
• Curiosity in understanding the domain and system architecture
• Have demonstrated ownership of continuous improvement initiatives around testing
• Deep understanding of testing principles and a variety of testing techniques and methods
• Strong understanding of Agile & Kanban
• Strong desire to work collaboratively with business teams. We do not divide ‘business’ and ‘tech’ teams, we see both as one team as we are all working towards one shared goal
• Strong interpersonal skills to work well in our very open and friendly environment
• Proficiency in at least one programming language, Ruby experience is not essential. You’ll just need to be happy to cross-over to Ruby if you join us – and we will support you with that
• Understand Test Driven Development, how coding, testing (in the form of writing unit tests) and design are tightly interwoven
• Understand Behavior Driven Development, ability to work with product managers and developers to clarify business rules and capture these test scenarios for verification
• Skilled in using a variety of testing tools at all levels in the testing pyramid
• Experience having built and/or maintained test frameworks
• Worked with continuous integration tools