QA Engineer

Company Overview

Founded in 1993, Baxter Planning has 30+ years of industry expertise setting the standard for SaaS in the service supply chain planning space. With a strong and growing customer base, we are developing new products and solutions as well as finding new ways to extend and enhance our established products building on our success in the market. We combine the agility and innovation of a start-up with the stability of an established, profitable, global company.

Location

Baxter Planning is headquartered in Austin, Texas with offices in Spain and India. Though this role will mostly be remote, the position will be located out of our rapidly growing Barcelona office.

Joining Baxter Planning you will find that we strongly value our team members and culture as it is reflected in our generous benefits, exciting and supportive work environment, and excellent work-life balance.

Position Overview

As a QA Engineer, you will play a critical role in ensuring the quality and reliability of our multiple SaaS products. You will design creative ways to break software and identify potential bugs. You will be re-sponsible for analysing the functionality of our applications and designing automated functional tests. You will collaborate closely with product managers, software engineers, and other stakeholders to contribute to product design, testability, and implementation.

Responsibilities
 Be responsible for all quality aspects in a Scrum team: manual testing, regression testing, automation, bug tracking, bug prevention and process improvement
 Develop test plans based on the analysis of feature requirements and a deep understanding of an applications behavior to verify the functionality, usability, performance, and reliability of our soft-ware applications
 Conduct thorough manual and automated testing of web applications, APIs, and other software components
 Identify, document, and track software defects and issues and work with the development team to ensure timely resolution
 Participate in the planning and estimation of testing efforts and provide feedback on potential risks and areas of improvement to enhance user experience
 Continuously enhance and optimize testing processes and methodologies to improve overall efficiency and effectiveness
 Define the test framework, test preconditions, and other test control and reporting functions to enable others to test functionality
 Stay updated with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices related to software quality assurance, and proactively share knowledge within the team
 Actively contribute to a positive team culture by fostering collaboration, knowledge sharing, and continuous learning

Qualifications
 4+ years experience as a QA Engineer or similar role in a software development environment
 Proficiency in writing clear, concise, and comprehensive test plans, test cases, and bug reports
 Experience with test automation tools and frameworks, such as Selenium, Karate Framework, TestNG, Junit, Cucumber, Appium, or similar
 Experience with API testing tools such as Postman, SoapUI, Swagger
 Strong knowledge of SQL queries
 Knowledge of distributed version control system (e.g., git)
 Solid understanding of software development life cycle (SDLC) and Agile methodologies
 Familiarity with programming languages; Java is desirable, or good knowledge of another language or desire to learn (Python, JavaScript)
 Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with keen attention to detail
 Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to effectively interact with cross-functional teams
 Self-motivated and proactive, with the ability to work independently and manage priorities in a fast-paced environment
 Strong written and oral communication skills
 Fluency in English

Preferred Qualifications
 Experience with continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) practices and tools (e.g., Jenkins)
 Knowledge of MongoDB would be valued
 Knowledge of performance testing methodologies and tools (e.g., JMeter, LoadRunner)
 Familiarity with cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure) and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)

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