Firmex, a Datasite company, is a global software-as-a-service provider. The company's Firmex VDR service is the world's most trusted virtual data room, having been used by over 140,000 companies worldwide to share confidential documents for due diligence, litigation and compliance.
This is a rare opportunity to have a significant say and impact on the future of our products, while strengthening your automation testing skills and employing investigating instincts. A QA Automation Engineer who wants to join a supportive team, invested mentors, and co-workers from every department, all working towards building their professional growth and the company. Someone who can communicate, and articulate quality issues at daily agile stand-ups, leading quality on the team. As a member of an agile feature delivery team the primary focus of this role is to bring quality leadership and insight which informs business and technical decisions during feature delivery. Our automation developer team members develop and own the testing plan, strategy, and framework for all feature projects.
**As our QA Automation Engineer you will**:
- Be the voice of quality on the team. You will represent your team, your role, and your purpose - quality - on your Agile team.
- Be articulate. You will articulate and defend testing strategies, trade offs, and decisions.
- Be accountable. You will develop and own test plans and automated tests at the component and integration level.
- Be focused. You will test and merge new features into the main development line.
- Be detail oriented. You will maintain all automated test suites as well as their documentation.
- Be curious. If you think you can improve something, you'll find a way to do it.
- Be confident. You will thrive in an Agile environment.
**What you'll need to be successful as a QA Automation Engineer**:
- 2 years of experience in API testing and API test automation using tools like Postman.
- 2 years of experience authoring tests in frameworks like RSpec, Jest, or Nightwatch.js.
- Experience and understanding with at least one programming language like JavaScript.
- Experience testing components hosted in AWS or other cloud services.
- Experience working with Jenkins or other pipeline solutions.
- A passion for Agile methodology but the flexibility to think outside the scrum. You can think on your feet, collaborate with your team and others, and you enjoy taking ownership for your work.
- A desire to put your best foot forward. You want to be part of a team dedicated to creating and delivering quality software.
- Outstanding communication. This is not a heads-down role. You will be working with a team that innovates together, out loud. And you will need to listen, engage, and present to external teams and senior project managers in a confident manner.
- Pride. You enjoy your work and getting a job done well. You want to be part of a team that promotes their accomplishments and sees the difference they make.
- Note: The "Core Duties" is a summary of the duties that are essential to this role and is not an exhaustive list. Firmex reserves the right to add or amend duties as necessary.
