Senior QA Engineer

First Help Financial; Needham (MA); Remote; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a fast-growing and culturally diverse company that offers auto loans to underserved communities. As a Senior QA Engineer, you'll lead quality and testing efforts within a dynamic Scrum Team, driving excellence in software quality. With a focus on automated testing, you'll collaborate with colleagues from around the globe to enhance testing methodologies and ensure top-notch product delivery. Enjoy competitive salaries, generous benefits, and a supportive culture that values work-life balance and career growth. This is your chance to make a significant impact in a company committed to exceptional service and innovation.

Benefits

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

401(k) Match

Tuition Reimbursement

Paid Parental Leave

Paid Vacation

Employee Recognition Programs

Monthly Lunches

Social Activities

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience as a QA engineer in Agile environments.
• Proven experience with automated testing and quality advocacy.

Responsibilities

• Build and execute manual and automated test cases.
• Track and report bugs, manage testing resources for sprints.

Skills

Automated Testing

Selenium WebDriver

TestNG

Cypress

Agile Methodologies

Exploratory Testing

Impact Analysis

Software Quality Practices

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science

Tools

JIRA

Automation Anywhere

TestRail

Postman

Job description

First Help Financial (FHF) is a fast-growing and culturally diverse company in the U.S. We provide auto loans to the underserved and care for our customers and partners with exceptional service. Through flexible financing options and tri-lingual support, we offer consumers an easier way to finance their first car. We lend to and support our portfolio which has consistently grown 30%+ each year over the last nine years.

Here you will find hard-working colleagues who come from over 20 countries. We hold ourselves to the highest standards of professionalism but also enjoy our work. Our culture and benefits are geared towards making you successful in life and comfortable at work.

Your Title: Senior QA Engineer

Your Location: Remote/Anywhere in the US

You Report To: Engineering Manager

Compensation:80K or moreplusbonus, depending upon experience

Learn more about our awesome Engineering team

About the Opportunity

First Help Financial, voted and certified as a “Great Place to Work” by our workforce for five years in a row, is adding a new partner to our Engineering department to accommodate our remarkable growth! This individual will lead the quality and testing effort for a Scrum Team and push quality process above and beyond standards.

What you will do:

Your responsibilities but not limited to:

• Build and execute manual and automated test cases
• Collaborate with other team members, build a long-term quality strategy and drive the successful implementation over time
• Provide expertise on the grooming, estimating, and testing of the stories in a sprint
• Support scrum team in the creation of proper test cases
• Track and report bugs that have been found
• Manage testing resources as needed to complete the sprint and overall epic goals
• Develop smoke tests, sanity tests, performance, and reliability testing as needed
• Provide quality metrics and expert insight into the health of the software
• Use appropriate quality tools and infrastructure to scale and manage our testing effort
• Enhance and improve the testing methodology for better results, increased productivity, and higher quality, becoming the QA expert in the team

What you bring:

• Demonstrate historical career stability
• Proven experience as a QA Engineer with a focus on automated testing using Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Maven, Cypress etc.
• 4+ experience as a QA engineer in an Agile environment
• Bias for action shifting-left Test and Quality Advocacy during development process.
• Knowledge of JIRA, Automation Anywhere, TestRail, and Postman strongly preferred
• Computer Science degree strongly preferred
• Knowledge of Financial software, environments, and industry strongly preferred
• Ability to define a testing strategy using different tests: manual, unit, end-to-end, integration, etc.
• Strong understanding of software quality practices, tools, and methodologies
• Knowledge of testing tools and their best application for specific needs
• Knowledge of testing metrics and how to use them for best results (i.e. Test Coverage, for bugs MTTF Mean time to Fix, for incidents MTTR Mean Time to Recovery, MTBF)
• Detail oriented, analytical, and inquisitive; big picture thinking but can be hands on.
• Exploratory Testing and ability to catch Edge Cases Scenarios.
• Ability to do impact analysis

FHF Benefits…

• Great Perks – We offer generous salaries, competitive health and welfare benefits (medical, dental, vision, LTD/STD, Identity theft, paid parental leave and much more), paid vacation, 401(k) match, tuition reimbursement, social activities, monthly lunches, a robust employee recognition and talent development program to enhance your career with us.
• Culture - We are believers in maintaining a healthy work-life balance. While we work hard and care deeply about our customers and partners, we want you to have room for your family, friends, and yourself.
• Growth - Company growth provides unprecedented career growth. FHF’s extraordinary year over year growth in revenue and new markets provides opportunity for you to establish and develop your career growth. We engage each employee to build a career plan that benefits everyone and we have a proven record of investing in you.
  

Diversity and Inclusion

FHF is committed to building a culture that respects and embraces all walks of life, inclusive of gender, race, culture, age, sexual orientation, and other identities. We will make accommodations when interviewing anyone with special needs.