Quality Engineer

About the Role

Ontra is seeking a Quality Engineer reporting to our Engineering Manager on our Quality team.

For this job, we are currently only hiring candidates based in the United States. For more information on where we employ, please see below.

We’re looking for someone excited to embed and collaborate with cross-functional teams to perform exploratory testing, enhance automated testing solutions, and integrate test suites into CI/CD pipelines for seamless software releases.

If you are a proactive and accountable quality engineer curious about new technologies and trends, and thrive in collaborative environments, we’d love to get to know you!

What You’ll Do

• Software Testing: Quickly gain an understanding of Ontra applications and their relevant functionalities to effectively contribute to quality assurance processes, including manual and automated testing. You are a product expert in your domain.
• Relationship Building: Establish strong, collaborative relationships with peers across QE, Software Engineering, and Product teams to facilitate seamless communication and coordination.
• Automation Framework: Enhance our Playwright automation framework and supporting tooling, ensuring they are maintainable, reusable, and scalable.
• Quality Advocacy: Champion quality processes and foster a collaborative team ownership mindset around quality. Empower your team to own testing and quality from project inception through production and post-production deploy.
• Enabling Continuous Delivery: Enhance, stabilize, and speed up our Smoke and Regression Automated Testing Suites integrated into our CI pipelines to support Continuous Delivery and continuous quality checks of our main application.

What You’ll Bring

• Experience: 3+ years of significant experience with manual testing and automated testing tools like Playwright and/or Cypress.
• Programming Skills: Intermediate to expert level proficiency in TypeScript (preferred) or JavaScript, and familiarity with Ruby or any other object-oriented programming languages.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Intermediate experience in collaborating with cross-functional teams, including QA, Software Engineering,, Product, and DevOps.
• CI/CD & Infrastructure: Intermediate experience with CI/CD pipelines using GitLab or other Cloud Based CI Providers, as well as familiarity with AWS infrastructure technologies.
• Issue Management System: Familiarity with bugs/issue management systems, such as Jira, Trello, Gitlab, etc.