Software QA Engineer - Viamo Inc

With more than 130 team members spread across 25 countries, and serving projects in more than 40 countries, we truly work on a global scale to catalyze a mobile tech movement. We are connecting nonprofits, governments, and businesses to the people they serve using the digital technologies they already have in their pocket (voice calls, interactive SMS, and social network chatbots).

Our vision is a world where all people? have access to the information they need to make decisions? for healthy, prosperous lives, and have meaningful relationships with governments, civil society and businesses.

Position

Currently, we are building new capabilities for our mobile engagement platform while maintaining reliability, usability, and scalability. In this role, you will contribute to a quality,reliable, predictable and satisfying experience with Viamo’s next-generation platform, improving its scalability and adding major new feature areas. You will work closely with project managers, developers and designers in reviewing feature specifications and designing well-structured test cases towards delivering quality, reliable and complete software, while supporting your team to grow through knowledge sharing.

Responsibilities

In your role you will be:

• working closely with project managers, developers and designers in reviewing feature specifications to ensure full understanding of individual deliverables.
• planning, designing and creating comprehensive and well-structured test cases from feature requirements at high quality.
• implementing test cases that cover the scope, related components and edge cases of features and activities towards delivering high quality and reliable releases.
• use significant knowledge of test automation and techniques to build and maintain tests.
• working with release engineers for fortnightly releases and run post-release smoke tests.
• participating in bi-weekly release review meetings to demo features to clients.
• an active member of the QA chapter, contributing and leading key initiatives which aimed at the growth and success of Engineering QA function at Viamo.
• reporting, tracking, verifying defects and testing fixes

Required Skills

• at least 2 years of software QA experience in a dynamic software engineering environment.
• has knowledge of general software QA methodologies, tools, and processes.
• has experience with Appium, Selenium WebDriver, Postman other common webUI/API/mobile testing tools
• have experience using relevant automated testing frameworks.
• able to perform full integration, end-to-end and user acceptance testing
• has a strong ability to empathize with user needs and think like a user
• enjoys working with a diverse multicultural and remote-based teams
• has experience with PHP or Python programming languages.
• has experience with SQL databases
• is familiar with agile methodologies

Here’s Our Vision of A Great Team Fit

• You are a strong collaborator and contributor to any team
• You are a self-starter, motivated and able to learn quickly in a fast-paced environment
• You share an attitude of ambition, diligence, attention to detail, and pragmatic perfectionism
• You are flexible, proactive and can take initiative with unplanned situations
• You have good communication skills, able to accurately and efficiently convey thoughts and ideas
• You are eager to learn and further develop your career pathways in the Software QA practice and support colleagues achieve
• You have a desire and a mindset to break things, to test across multiple simple and complex scenarios and to anticipate problems that may arise with a solution.
• You are able to get things done

Why Work With Us:

Purpose + Ambition:

We are solving one of the world’s toughest challenges: connecting organizations to people in low-resource settings in a meaningful, respectful, and equitable way on a global scale. We aim to reach 100M unique individuals by 2021, creating a movement of more than 2,000 organizations who are using our products to engage with their end users.

Autonomy + Responsibility:

Every person on our team plays a critical role in creating the organization they want to work at. Our people work with their managers to create their KPIs and are responsible for meeting their goals with little direct oversight.

Global Community:

You will have the opportunity to work within our global team. We have meetings with participants across 15 time zones and use a combination of tools to collaborate across departments and countries to learn, play, support and grow together.

Supplemental Benefits:

• Continuous learning opportunities and support for professional development
• Culture that values trust, curiosity, positive human impact, and diversity
• Health benefits plan
• Flexible work schedule
• Generous vacation
• Equipment to be productive
• Casual dress code

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