Quality Engineer

TetraScience is the Scientific Data and AI company. We are catalyzing the Scientific AI revolution by designing and industrializing AI-native scientific data sets, which we bring to life in a growing suite of next gen lab data management solutions, scientific use cases, and AI-enabled outcomes. 

TetraScience is the category leader in this vital new market, generating more revenue than all other companies in the aggregate. In the last year alone, the world’s dominant players in compute, cloud, data, and AI infrastructure have converged on TetraScience as the de facto standard, entering into co-innovation and go-to-market partnerships: Latest News and Announcements | TetraScience Newsroom:

In connection with your candidacy, you will be asked to carefully review the Tetra Way letter, authored directly by Patrick Grady, our co-founder and CEO. This letter is designed to assist you in better understanding whether TetraScience is the right fit for you from a values and ethos perspective. 

It is impossible to overstate the importance of this document and you are encouraged to take it literally and reflect on whether you are aligned with our unique approach to company and team building. If you join us, you will be expected to embody its contents each day. 

Tetrascience is expanding rapidly and adding a Quality Engineer (QE) to one of our new teams focusing on use-cases for Scientific AI applications. The QE Engineer is expected to quickly grasp complex use-cases from early-stage applications, create comprehensive test plans and perform test automation.

In this role, you will be entrusted with a variety of responsibilities that play a crucial part in our team's success. Your primary focus will be to diligently execute tasks that contribute to our overall objectives, ensuring that projects are completed on time and meet the high standards we uphold. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, engaging in problem-solving sessions and sharing your insights to drive innovation and efficiency.

Additionally, you will have the opportunity to take ownership of specific projects, allowing you to demonstrate your expertise and management skills. This may involve overseeing project timelines, coordinating with stakeholders, and ensuring that all deliverables align with our strategic vision. By actively participating in meetings and providing clear updates, you will help foster a cohesive team environment aimed at achieving our goals.

Ultimately, your role will not only be about completing tasks but also about contributing to the continuous improvement of our processes, supporting our mission, and helping to cultivate a culture of excellence within the organization.

As a QE Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in our product development lifecycle. Your responsibilities will include:

• Take ownership of the QA process and overall product quality.

• Review and use case requirement documents and technical design documents and provide timely and meaningful feedback

• Understand application requirements and use-cases, create test cases, perform manual testing, track test runs and test cycles, report issues and track them meticulously.

• Independently estimate, prioritize, plan, and coordinate QE activities

• Develop test cases that cover different edge cases based on use-cases, not let go of any details and be very nuanced in the QE approach.

• Use your quality engineering background to work seamlessly in a fast-paced environment while maintaining the strict quality process.

• Effectively collaborate with a diverse group of scientists, data engineers and application developers.

• Be driven by results - have a pragmatic approach and urgency towards evolving requirements, follow and resolve blockers and basically take things to resolution.

• Keep improving test coverage by continuously reviewing customer issues and usage patterns

• Be curious about the science behind the application use-cases and be willing to continuously learn and adapt to the application.

• Utilize prior test automation experience to design and implement robust, effective workflow-based tests within our AI-based Playwright test framework

• Use basic experience with databases and data verification to query and verify data integrity and correctness for scientific data applications.

To excel in this role, you should possess the following qualifications and experience:

• 5+ years as a Quality Engineer or Quality Assurance Engineer.

• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes

• Proven expertise in designing comprehensive test plans, creating test cases and reporting test runs and defects

• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process

• Basic understanding of database systems and SQL for querying and data verification.

• Strong proficiency in AI-based test automation, particularly with Playwright.

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject

• Proactive and self-motivated, with the ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

• Nice-to-have if you have experience with science background, or experience with scientific instruments.

• Nice to have if you have experience working with cloud based applications that are data intensive.
  

Join TetraScience and contribute to shaping the future of scientific research through innovative and high-quality software solutions!

• Competitive Salary and equity in a fast-growing company.

• Supportive, team-oriented culture of continuous improvement.
• Generous paid time off (PTO).
• Flexible working arrangements - Remote work.
  

We are not currently providing visa sponsorship for this position