Senior QA Engineer - ReadyAPI

At SmartBear, we believe building great software starts with quality—and we’re helping our customers make that happen every day. Our solution hubs—SmartBear API Hub, SmartBear Insight Hub, and SmartBear Test Hub, featuring HaloAI, bring visibility and automation to software development, making it easier for teams to deliver high-quality software faster. SmartBear is trusted by over 16 million developers, testers, and software engineers at 32,000+ organizations – including innovators like Adobe, JetBlue, FedEx, and Microsoft.

Senior QA Engineer – ReadyAPI 

• Lead and drive the quality assurance efforts for the ReadyAPI product, ensuring its reliability, performance, and functionality.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to develop and execute comprehensive testing strategies and plans.
• Tech stack: JavaScript, HTTP, REST, SOAP, GraphQL, 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 Senior QA Engineer you will work on regression testing, test automation and overall providing the highest quality experience of the ReadyAPI products.  In addition, you will mentor and guide junior QA engineers, sharing your expertise and promoting a culture of quality within the team. This role offers an excellent opportunity for an experienced QA professional to make a significant impact on the success of our product.

• Collaborate closely with product owners, developers, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and provide input on design and architecture.
• Collaborate across QA teams to develop and deliver test automation, ensuring application quality.
• Identify, track, and manage defects.
• Mentor and guide junior QA engineers, providing technical expertise and promoting best practices in software testing.
• Continuously improve testing processes, methodologies, and tools to enhance overall efficiency and effectiveness.
• Stay updated on emerging trends, technologies, and best practices in software testing and quality assurance.
• Write acceptance criteria for requirements.
• Monitor and measure test coverage to improve test scenarios.

We are looking for you if you have:  

• 5+ years of strong experience with JavaScript for test automation, tools and frameworks such as SoapUI, ReadyAPI or other API testing tools.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Strong communication, leadership, and mentoring abilities.
• Familiarity with Jenkins, GitHub, Agile methodologies, and continuous delivery.
• Experience in following would be a big plus: MQTT, Kafka, OAuth2, JMS, AWS EC2.

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 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 an equal employment opportunity employer and encourages success based on our individual merits and abilities without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, ancestry, mental or physical disability, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, medical condition, sex, sex stereotyping, pregnancy (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), or any other legally protected status.

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