The Role
Lead QA initiatives to embed quality across the platform: design test strategies, create test plans, implement automation, write automation scripts, mentor QA team members, collaborate with developers and designers, prioritize bug fixes, and maintain quality documentation and metrics.
Summary Generated by Built In
Klir is on a mission to make water better. Our customers are global leaders in water management. We are looking for a Software
Quality Assurance Engineer that can help us
build-in quality to every aspect of our platform.
In this English-language, remote role, you ensure the team
achieves built-in code quality. You develop QA test plans, and drive the testing strategies and quality metrics that help us deliver a solid enterprise solution.
You set quality standards and provide feedback to help us meet our goals. You build upon experience in software testing tools and frameworks to help us implement
automation to deliver a validated release with
minimal delay. You advocate quality
policies that guide the entire team, and collaborate with management on estimation, resource
planning, and team development.
Responsibilities - Collaborating with developers to solve application faults.
- Planning test
schedules and test strategies to meet team
delivery objectives
- Creating and
maintaining company documentation,
such as quality manuals
and quality procedures.
- Engag ing all team members
within Klir in quality improvements and testing.
- Instructing and mentoring
team mates as a leader in QA practices, with support
and oversight.
- Providing feedback
and constructive advice to develop and grow
capability within the team.
- Meeting with the
software design team to plan test coverage and
verification methods.
- Identifying software application weaknesses and
target areas.
- Prioritizing and
planning bug-fix efforts.
- Planning and
delivery of initiatives to automate
testing and tools that support QA
goals.
- Writing automation
scripts and implementing software applications.
- Troubleshooting automation software and finalizing
system procedures.
Requirements
- Effective verbal and written communication in English.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in a Software QA, with at least 2 years leading a QA team.
- Broad experience on-boarding and using test automation tools and platforms.
- Expertise in principles and methods for software testing.
- Agile QA and test-driven development (TDD) practices.
- Customer advocacy and customer focus.
- Estimating and prioritizing work.
- Previous experience in creating test strategy and test plans on major projects
- Strong SQL query-writing skills (SQLServer, Oracle )
- Experience in an early-stage start up or proven track record operating in earliest stages of a product.
- Excellent organizational and problem-solving skills, with a broad base of knowledge in the areas of technology and communications
- Work in GMT -4 timezone hours
- Proficiency with
automation tools like Selenium, Playright and Testproject.io
- Proficiency with test
management tools like Azure DevOps or JIRA
- Experience
navigating and understanding code, using software
languages like C# and Javascript
Personal attributes:
- Active Listener
- Builds Relationships
- Scrum Values
- Follows Processes
- Time Management
- Meets Commitments
- You thrive equally in strategy and execution. You are
inventive and resourceful and can turn your ideas
quickly into implementations. We move fast, but we are smart about it.
- You are
entrepreneurial at heart, but methodical in your approach.
- You love
to learn about your craft and your own personal development.
- You get
a rush when you’re super busy and getting a lot
done. You get a super rush when your efforts land a win.
- You would rather just try a new idea than spend days
talking about it.
- You believe in collaboration and enjoy adding value and
getting value by engaging with every department that
touches the customer experience.
- You’re
probably your own toughest critic and have an
internal drive to succeed and help others do the same.
You never want to be the weak link, but the strongest.
- You are passionate about water and ensuring that the developed
world has enough safe and secure water needed to
sustain our species for generations to come.
Benefits
Our Commitment to you:
- We remunerate you well with a competitive salary and
benefits for your market. Operating at your best,
you can't worry about your quality of life at home.
- We commit that you have an opportunity to use your
talents to leave a factual lasting legacy for our
species for generations to come.
- By working with a Y-Combinator market leading company,
we commit that you have an opportunity to challenge
yourself to be the best you can be.
- We commit to give you the opportunity to work in a
team that understands life is far too important to take
seriously. Obviously, we are doing a crucial job
but we have fun while doing it.
- We commit to giving you the opportunity to work with a
group of people that value honesty and audaciousness, that
stand up straight & stick together no matter
what and aspire to be the difference between good
and great.
- We are committed to doing our best to make you
successful. The leader's sense of purpose is to help
you to be the best version of yourself. We achieve
this with fearless feedback, focus on growth and transparency.
Skills Required
- Effective verbal and written communication in English
- Minimum 5 years of experience in Software QA with at least 2 years leading a QA team
- Broad experience onboarding and using test automation tools and platforms
- Expertise in principles and methods for software testing
- Agile QA and test-driven development (TDD) practices
- Customer advocacy and customer focus
- Estimating and prioritizing work
- Previous experience creating test strategy and test plans on major projects
- Strong SQL query-writing skills (SQLServer, Oracle)
- Experience in an early-stage startup or proven track record in earliest product stages
- Excellent organizational and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work GMT -4 timezone hours
- Proficiency with automation tools like Selenium, Playwright and TestProject.io
- Proficiency with test management tools like Azure DevOps or JIRA
- Experience reading and understanding code using languages like C# and JavaScript
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The Company
What We Do
Klir's integrated water regulatory solution helps the world's water utilities make water safer. The Klir platform gathers, monitors and analyses regulatory compliance data, all in one easy-to-use web-based application. With it, water utilities are better equipped to quantify and mitigate the true risks to the environment and human health. It empowers them to improve their performance in addressing and managing enforcement actions issued by the Regulator and to develop more focused asset investment programmes. By providing them with a powerful way to manage all their regulatory compliance missions in one place, Klir is the ideal solution for water regulations and compliance that helps utilities capture widespread efficiency gains, while ultimately protecting the environment. To learn more about how Klir helps teams across an entire water utility organization achieve their strategic and operational goals, visit us today at www.klir.io.
