About the Role:

In this role you will be one of the first QA Engineers at ActionIQ. You will be embedded with an engineering team, working closely with developers and product managers, defining and implementing multi-layered test strategy, contributing to the release transformation process and promoting quality centered engineering culture. Supported by other QA Engineers, you will play an integral part in helping us shift testing left in our SDLC.

About the Team:

The QA Team at ActionIQ is in a unique position to define quality standards across the company and provide guidance to engineers on how to meet these standards. We strive to incorporate best testing and test automation practices, optimize work processes and enhance tools.

You will be working shoulder to shoulder with engineers to design, implement, test, and maintain a reliable and scalable platform that delivers terabytes of data every day. You’ll join a team where we support our teammates, help them grow, and encourage each other to keep a healthy work-life balance.

One year from now you will have:

• Learned the ins and outs of our platform and mastered assessing risks, understanding dependencies, tracking down and communicating issues
• Worked alongside engineers and other teams, bringing quality into every step of building and delivering features
• Been recognized by engineers in multiple teams as a great collaborator and coach
• Influenced engineering practices and contributed to the building of our testing infrastructure

Responsibilities:

• Define and implement test strategies for an individual engineering team in alignment with platform wide quality assurance vision
• Partner with other QA engineers to establish a company wide culture of defect prevention
• Review functional requirements, assure its completeness and suggest test coverage required
• Support engineers in testing of new product features
• Use exploratory testing and other tools to guide test automation efforts
• Coordinate across teams in order to resolve defects timely

Requirements

What you bring to ActionIQ:

• 3+ years of relevant experience at a tech company, exposure to startup culture is a plus
• Strong knowledge and passion for testing methodologies, tools and processes
• Experience defining and implementing Agile test strategy for a product and its components
• Excellent exploratory testing skills
• Experience investigating and debugging difficult problems, utilizing DB queries and reading through logs
• Aspiration to champion bug prevention and testability across the platform
• Interest in sharing expertise around quality and driving cultural change, including ability to work through disagreements

Nice to have:

• Experience with big data, MySQL, cloud infrastructure, JIRA, TestRail, CI/CD, Github and Jenkins
• Basic test automation or coding skills
• Exposure to various test automation solutions from front end UI to API to backend
• Experience with test data generation, and data testing/validation

Our work is broad and complex in nature - please don't rule yourself out if you do not meet every requirement.

Benefits

• Work with a fun, inclusive, and smart team of people as we build a NYC-based enterprise software company!
• Competitive compensation package, including significant equity component
• Backed by top-tier VCs (Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, FirstMark Capital)
• Top notch health insurance benefits, including 12 weeks paid parental leave for both parents.

• We are currently working remotely due to COVID-19, but we will be opening a beautiful new office right on Madison Square Park! All NYC-based employees will have the option to return to the office 3 days per week beginning after Labor Day on an “opt-in” basis. We plan to officially reopen our office in the beginning of 2022.
• Check out our latest blog post here to learn how we designed our return to work plans.

• Work from Home stipend to optimize office set up

ActionIQ is committed to building an inclusive, equitable, and diverse organization. We embrace equal opportunity for all applicants and seek to foster a culture of belonging for our employees. We recognize and appreciate that the more inclusive we are, the better we will function as a team. AIQ welcomes qualified applicants of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or family status, disability, military veteran status, and any other status or background. Join us on our journey to build a product that will help our customers deliver memorable experiences that will drive loyalty and growth.