Quality Engineer

As a QE Engineer, you will work on our quality engineering initiatives throughout the engineering organization. You will work closely with product development engineers and SRE with a diverse background and collaboratively build automation testing practices. Apollo Engineering strongly believes in allowing team members to take ownership of what they do, and our approach to problem-solving relies heavily upon creativity, communication, and collaboration.

Minimum qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience as Software QA Engineer 
• 2+ years of relevant experience in a PLG Environment 
• Experience and good understanding of automation testing and frameworks like Cypress, Selenium, Cucumber, Playwright or Rspec
• Exposure to modern backend programming languages - Java, Python or Ruby (at least one of them)
• Experience with JavaScript and/or Typescript
• Expert knowledge of software testing, quality improvement, quality process, quality assurance methodologies, and best practices
• Experiences in web services, batch/extract file processing, microservice api level testing
• Good experience in Agile testing methodologies and best practices

Good to Have 

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related qualifications 
• Modern Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment technologies and techniques
• Synthetic Monitoring and Metrics gathering with tools like NewRelic, GCP Logging, Datadog
• Familiarity with Linux Containers and Virtualization (Docker)
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker Compose

Preferred Skills

• Strong problem-solving abilities and technical reasoning
• Ability to work cross-functionally with other engineering teams.
• Strong interest in learning new and emerging technologies
• Software Testing or Quality related certification is a plus
• Knowledge of microservices architecture
• Knowledge of the challenges faced by software engineers in a modern engineering department

Responsibilities 

Automation Testing

• Adhere to all aspects of QE processes and methodologies and ensure effectiveness and alignment to industry best practices 
• Achieving QE objectives and deliverables to customers based on quality standards
• Design and implement automated test cases using frameworks like Cypress or Playwright, based on product requirements.
• Prepare, review, and maintain testing documents (test plan, test cases, test reports,) to ensure complete test coverage 
• Manage proper execution by the QE team on different types of testing (functional, integration, end-to-end, performance, etc)

Internal Tools Ownership 

• Building QE dashboard to report health metrics of code quality and testing coverage
• Enhancing Synthetic monitoring practices with tools like NewRelic 
• Work closely with DevOps to support and troubleshoot test environments and coordinate parallel release testing.
• Supporting engineers on internal tools, systems, and processes. 

Project Tasks 

• Prepare and maintain test plans, test cases, and execution reports to ensure full coverage and traceability. 
• Provide task prioritization, project-level estimates, and planning support for feature development.
• Use of modern project management software such as JIRA to organize epics, stories and tickets and track progress
• Requirements gathering required for projects
• Manage or prepare customer demo presentations for project deliverables when needed
• Breaking larger tasks down into smaller tasks and identifying the order in which they should be completed
• Using agile project management techniques like stand-ups and weekly sprint planning

Cross-Functional Collaboration 

• Communicate technical ideas to software developers in written and verbal formats
• Provide strategic testing initiatives for projects to introduce efficient techniques and test productivity improvements
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering and global teams to align with organizational goals.
• Manage risks and deliverables to ensure that the testing activities remain within agreed scope, schedule, budget, and quality standards.