Quality Assurance Engineer at Zola Electric

Job Summary

• This may be your dream job if you’re someone who dreams of combining your knowledge and skills to help ZOLA Electric change the renewable energy landscape.
• You need to be passionate about bringing solar energy to off-grid areas and emerging markets with the unique social, technical, and business challenges that come along with it.
• You are inspired by the opportunity to unleash human potential, and motivated to help build a truly epic business.

Position

• The Quality Assurance Engineer is responsible for planning and implementing Quality Assurance (QA) testing procedures for our software tools, apps and platforms.
• To run exploratory and automated testing procedures for Zola’s range of software applications, from enterprise Web applications, to consumer quality Android/iOS mobile and tablet apps, to custom software that connects solar systems to the data warehouse.
• To work with other QA testers (including QA services) to estimate, plan, and implement complementary testing activities.
• To ensure that quality issues and defects are appropriately identified, documented, tracked, and resolved in our bug tracking system.

Amongst other, the role consists of:

• Participate in project planning meetings to help define ongoing software quality objectives
• Embed a project QA testing process alongside
• Manage and report on key performance indicators for QA process
• Identify and analyze joint software PM/QA tools to improve productivity and quality
• Observe workflows, procedures, systems and controls for effective QA testing pipeline
• Review feature specs and recommend tactics to improve testability
• Follow bug reporting process in use by overall organization
• Achieve benchmarks for timely processing of reported bugs based on level of severity
• Utilize QA testing and ticketing tools
• Participate in iterative improvements to QA process to achieve faster and higher fidelity output
• Participate in team retrospectives to identify root causes of issues
• Create test plans for project features to systemize quality control
• Run exploratory testing procedures on software to uncover bugs and unanticipated usability issues
• Test integrations of interconnected applications to ensure data integrity and expected output
• Implement automated testing of UI workflows
• Document investigation process, steps to replicate and recommended resolution (where applicable) to allow engineers to take speedy action
• Triage issues in an established ticketing workflow, expending resources where most impactful relative to plan

Requirements

• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or related discipline
• Experience using JavaScript, Python or other language to automate tests
• 2+ years successful software QA management experience
• Software QA Automation and black box testing experience
• Working knowledge of QA in Agile methodologies
• Experience testing web and mobile products
• Experience with Android mobile testing
• Familiarity with integrated hardware/software product testing
• Experience working with distributed (virtual) teams
• Experience in Android and iOS UI testing
• Able to multi-task in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
• Strong commitment to quality and ability to work closely and communicate effectively with developers and project managers across multiple teams
• Ability to conduct testing activities and recommend process improvement opportunities for multiple concurrent projects
• Interpersonal skills and able to work with various cross functional teams to deliver high quality products
• Highly effective communicator and problem solver
• Willingness to learn and implement new processes
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong talent development and leadership skills.