Job: QA Engineer JD [Part Time]

About our Client

Our client is building the financial infrastructure for the future of work. They’re starting by building a finance automation platform for businesses in the hospitality and events space (think Coachella, Soho House, The Ned, Public Hotels). Over the past 12 months they’ve grown their payments volume by 16x and raised seed funding from firms like B Capital Group, Notation Capital, MaC in addition to the founders of Ramp, NuvoCargo, Lambda School, and many more. We’re a small team on a BIG mission and we come from Meta, Palantir, Google, Thrasio, and ZocDoc.

They’re a small team that operates with high levels of trust, initiative, and collaboration. Our client hires people that they believe in and give them the tools + opportunity to succeed and grow with their.

About the job

Our client is working on their biggest project yet — building the next version of their app. This MVP proved to be wildly successful, so much so that we want to rebuild our app to handle the rapid user and feature growth they expect to see over the next few years. To ensure a smooth engineering and launch experience, they‘re looking to bring in a QA engineer that can work with their engineers.

“The person who takes this role will be working with our engineering team to actively test their code as it is written and pushed to our repos. Their work will allow us to ensure that the app we’re building can handle the needs of our user base. Also, because this is the first QA engineer we’re hiring, this person will have a huge impact on how we think about and approach quality as an engineering priority”. – Our Client

This is a part-time remote position

Responsibilities

• Identify and setup tools, frameworks, and languages needed by our client
• Collaborate with engineers to define and run test plans and test cases for the features they are building
• Maintain test documentation so that results are well understood by both the engineering and non-engineering teams
• Work with product + engineering to scope changes and and problem areas that we need to address
• Automate regression testing as time permits

Qualifications

Required

• 3+ years of QA engineering experience
• 2+ years of experience with cypress, puppeteer, and jest or mocha, including deployment and set up
• Proficient in JavaScript and SQL
• Experience testing both the backend and frontend of a single application
• Good communication and documentation skills

Extra Credit

• Proficiency in TypeScript
• API Integration testing
• Setting up automated testing frameworks
• Familiarity in cross-browser testing

Why you should work with us

Impact

As the first QA engineer with our client, you’ll have a huge influence on both the product and team. Your work will be the foundation for how they approach and think about testing the app

Fresh Code Base

Our client is building a new great system in a completely new code base. This means you’ll be able to focus on QA testing without having to worry about legacy code or known issues.

High-Trust Environment

Our client prides ourselves on trusting their team members to drive and deliver their work. No micro-management or unnecessary meetings. Instead, they trust you to lead their on the QA side while providing you any support you need