QA Engineer- ReadyAPI

At SmartBear, we deliver the complete visibility developers need to make each release better than the last. Our award-winning and industry-favorite tools—TestComplete, Swagger, Cucumber, ReadyAPI, and Zephyr—are trusted by over 16 million developers, testers, and software engineers at 32,000+ organizations, including world-renowned innovators like Adobe, JetBlue, FedEx, and Microsoft.

QA Engineer – ReadyAPI 

• Build and shape development practices on a tangible industry, a leading API development product.
• Play a critical role in technical implementation, customer usage models, and the development of test plans and test suites.
• Tech stack: JavaScript, HTTP, REST, Websockets, GraphQL, SOAP, gRPC, Apache Kafka, Git, Docker

Product intro 

ReadyAPI allows teams to create, manage, and execute automated functional, security, and performance tests in one centralized interface. 

With ReadyAPI development teams around the world (e.g. NASA, FedEx, ...) can test API types like REST, SOAP, Apache Kafka, MQTT.  Record live API traffic, or virtualizing web services to remove pipeline dependencies. Finally integrates with GIT, JIRA, Slack, Jenkins and many more development tools. 

Go to our product page if you want to know more about ReadyAPI 

You can even have a free trial to check it out 😊  

About the role 

As a QA Engineer you will work with acceptance testing, regression testing, test automation and overall providing the highest quality experience to users. 

• Identify business requirements and work closely with the product owner, developers to find solutions, providing feedback and ensuring they are fit for purpose 
• Write acceptance criteria for requirements 
• Perform manual testing (exploratory and non-functional) and log results 
• Review results of automated tests and log defects 
• Performance, stress test 
• Identify, maintain and drive bespoke test automation solutions 
• Monitor and measure test coverage to improve test scenarios 
• Provide feedback/input on the techniques, solutions and tools used throughout projects 

We are looking for you if you have:  

• Experience with JavaScript for test automation, tools and frameworks such as SoapUI, ReadyAPI or other API testing tools, Cypress 
• BDD approach to software development
• Experience in test automation within an Agile environment 
• A risk-based approach to testing 
• Non-functional aspects of web application testing, such as UI, Accessibility, Security and Performance
• Experience in following would be a big plus: MQTT, JIRA, OAuth2, JMS, Jenkins, AWS 

Why you should join the SmartBear crew: 

• You can grow your career at every level. 
• We invest in your success as well as the spaces where our teams come together to work, collaborate, and have fun.
• We love celebrating our SmartBears; we even encourage our crew to take their birthdays off.
• We are guided by a People and Culture organization - an important distinction for us. We think about our team holistically – the whole person. 
• We celebrate our differences in experiences, viewpoints, and identities because we know it leads to better outcomes. 

Did you know? 

• Our main goal at SmartBear is to make our technology-driven world a better place. 
• SmartBear is committed to ethical corporate practices and social responsibility, promoting good in all the communities we serve. 
• SmartBear is headquartered in Somerville, MA with offices across the world including Galway Ireland, Bath, UK, Wroclaw, Poland and Bangalore, India. 
• We’ve won major industry (product and company) awards including B2B Innovators Award, Content Marketing Association, IntellyX Digital Innovator and BuiltIn Best Places to Work.

SmartBear is committed to creating an inclusive workplace for employees where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. We are an equal opportunity employer and make employment decisions based on merit, qualifications, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, gender, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other protected status under applicable laws. We are dedicated to fostering a workplace that reflects a diversity of thought and experience as well as our values of being smart, open, driven, accountable, and curious.