Automation Quality Engineer

Join Our Team at Litera: Where Legal Technology Meets Excellence 

Litera has been at the forefront of legal technology innovation for over 25 years, crafting legal software to amplify impact and maximize efficiency. Developed by the best legal minds in the industry, our comprehensive suite of integrated legal tools is both powerful and user-friendly and simplifies the way modern firms manage core legal workflows, secure collaboration, and organize firm knowledge and experience. Every day, we help more than 2.3 million legal professionals focus on their craft. Litera: Less busy work, more of your life’s work. 

Overview 

As a Automation Quality Engineer at Litera, you will be part of a dynamic team that is passionate about driving innovation in the legal technology space. You will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge tools and collaborate with industry experts to deliver solutions that make a real difference in the legal profession. You will be a critical team member responsible for the quality engineering in our product development team by using your expertise in test planning, design and implementation (automation). You will be crucial in our continuous improvement objectives to shift left and find and prevent defects as early as possible by improving software requirements (stories), specifications and acceptance criteria. Join a team who share in your passion for building highly available, quality software that provides value to our clients and their clients too. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Develop and maintain automated and manual tests and test suites. 

• Develop, publish and tracks test plans. 

• Identify/resolve software inconsistencies, ambiguities, and defects before, during and after implementation. 

• Practice positive interactions - encouragement in place of judgment. 

• Collaborate with software engineers, QEs, and Product Owners. 

• Work with the customer success team, as needed, to triage and support critical issues.

• Role progression 

  Within 1 month, you will: 

  • Learn the functional areas of the application and intended uses. 

  • Manage, test and report on bugs using Jira and xRay. 

  • Establish relationships with all developers and QE members on the team. 

  • Act as a member of an Agile team that solves complex challenges and builds working software. 

  • Work with senior QE members to communicate unacceptable risks to quality. 

  • Adhere to standard operating procedures to ensure consistency in the way we test software. 

  Within 3 months, you will: 

  • Support and accountability for timely releases and adherence to release activities. 

  • Contribute to agile planning by establishing tasks and forecasts for work to be performed. 

  • Write and execute test cases that probe system limits in terms of function and performance. 

  • Create automated test scripts for new features (stories) 

  • Assure automated regression test cases are integrated and pass each build. 

  Within 6 months, you will: 

  • Consider dependencies in test case design and execution. 

  • Establish subject matter expertise in multiple feature areas of the application. 

  • Ownership of feature testing for critical feature areas within the application. 

  • Collaborate with key stakeholders and report on quality initiatives important for customer and product success. 

  • Define new opportunities for quality improvement