Remote working is the new norm. Do you want to avoid a daily commute, reduce stress, achieve work-life balance, spend more time with your family, be more creative, and improve productivity? At RemoteStar, we follow a remote-first work policy. If you’re passionate about working from home or a nearby co-working space with leading start-ups and scale-ups, RemoteStar can be a great fit. At RemoteStar we help both employers and employees to build a great remote-team culture, reduce overheads, and improve productivity.
About Client - A UK based Startup Founded by a team of Google and Rocket Internet alumni, is looking for a Backend Engineer to join their team to build and scale their collaborative product.
About Role - Remote QA Engineer
As a QA Engineer you’ll be responsible for:
- Establish QA foundations: design and implement a comprehensive QA strategy, including the development of testing frameworks and methodologies tailored to client's needs.
- Automate testing processes: develop and maintain automated test scripts and methodologies to enhance our testing efficiency and coverage, reducing reliance on manual testing.
- Improve product robustness: identify, document, and track defects, ensuring they are resolved before product releases. Ensure key features, especially integrations (eg. Jira, Slack), are thoroughly tested.
- Monitor and report: implement monitoring tools and processes to catch issues proactively, ensuring we are aware of integration failures and other critical issues before our users.
- Collaborate cross-functionally: work closely with developers, designers, founders and other stakeholders to understand requirements, provide feedback, and ensure the highest quality in product releases.
- Champion a culture of quality: raise the quality bar within the team, fostering a proactive approach to bug identification and resolution.
- Drive documentation: document testing processes, procedures, and best practices for future reference and team training
- What do we value:
- Experience: +3 years of experience in QA engineering, working with scaleups, being exposed to a growing number of users.
- Technical:
- Proficiency in writing automated test scripts using tools such as Selenium, Cypress.
- Experience with manual testing, including exploratory testing and regression testing.
- Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and testing methodologies (manual, exploratory, automation).
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated tests into the build process.
- Understanding of web technologies and cloud platforms (preferably GCP).
- Knowledge of API testing tools such as Postman or Swagger.
- Problem-Solving: strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a keen eye for detail.
- Communication: excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams in a remote first environment.
- Self-Starter: highly motivated, proactive, comfortable with ambiguity in entrepreneurial environments, and able to work independently with minimal supervision.
- Agility: ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment and adapt to changing priorities.
What will you get?
- A chance to be an early member in a startup focused on redefining cross-functional interactions, within the future of work.
- Ability to solve problems with a team that deeply cares about velocity and making an impact.
- Remote first working environment.
