Offer summary

Qualifications:

At least 5 years of experience in a software quality assurance role., Strong experience in automated testing and familiarity with programming languages such as Javascript, Typescript, and SQL., Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a focus on holistic quality., A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or relevant experience is preferred..

Key responsibilities:

Build and maintain regression automation scripts to support application functionality.

Manually test software for validation and accuracy based on defined criteria.

Collaborate with product and customer-facing teams to ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle.

Record detailed documentation of feature behavior and identify software defects.

Job description

Arkestro’s Predictive Procurement accelerates enterprise spend transformation, using AI and game theory to unlock trapped savings and reduce risk, enabling teams to influence significantly more spend. By combining AI with deep Negotiation Science, Supplier Science, and Process Science procurement teams can improve win-rates while strengthening supply chain agility.

As a fast-growing tech company, we’re looking for builders and innovators — people who thrive in the face of ambiguity and who have a selfless dedication to do whatever it takes to make Arkestro and our customers successful. We believe in egoless execution and we are looking for people who will work together to solve hard problems. If you're excited to help shape our future, contribute to our company culture, and help to drive our business forward there is a tremendous opportunity for you here at Arkestro! See Arkestro in action at arkestro.com.

We’re looking for an experienced quality assurance engineer with a strong test background to continue to help us develop our QA processes and support the team building increased capabilities and enhancements to our Arkestro platform. We need someone who will be responsible for finding and reporting software defects and identifying discrepancies between specification and system behavior.

Responsibilities

Build regression automation scripts that support app functionality
Manually test software for validation and accuracy based on defined set of criteria
Execute smoke, regression, integration, performance and other testing types to ensure proper behavior of software
Record detailed documentation of feature behavior
Record pass/fails conditions of tests and correlates failures to bug identification
Identifies and escalates any risk to quality of the product or the process
Collaborates with the product team to ensure quality throughout the SDLC and product release cycles
Collaborates with customer-facing teams to incorporate user feedback in the testing strategy
Participate in refinement and estimations of effort to promote accurate planning
Utilize Github to maintain automation repositories, run custom scripts, and facilitate automated quality practices
Participate in On-Call rotation

Required Qualifications:

At least 5 years experience in a software quality assurance role
At least 5 years experience in automated testing
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Possess a mindset focused on holistic quality
Experience with programming languages such as Javascript, Typescript, Gherkin, SQL, Ruby/Rails

Nice to Have Qualifications

Experience with automated testing frameworks such as Jest/Puppeteer, Playwright, Postman, Jmeter or any other object-oriented based automated testing framework
Experience with testing support functionalities such as Github Actions, Lambdatest, Sendgrid, Datadog, PagerDuty
Understanding of quality management systems and quality control processes
Background in data-based testing and/or security-based testing
A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or other relevant experience

Pay Range

$105,000—$125,000 USD

Arkestro is committed to providing our employees with a benefits package designed to give you the flexibility you need to ensure a healthy life/work balance. Arkestro offers our employees great benefits and perks, including, but not limited to:

Competitive salary and startup equity
Medical, Dental, Vision insurance premiums covered up to 100% (employee only)
401K matching
Unlimited PTO
A remote-first team with regular opportunities to get together in person for team building, design sprints, and customer visits
A one time allowance of $1,500 for home office supplies
Annual budget of $1,000 for learning and professional development
Diverse, inclusive, highly collaborative, and vibrant culture

Arkestro is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.

Disclaimer

Please note this job description may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the job described and that additional tasks may be assigned to the employee from time to time; or the scope of the job may change as necessitated by business demands. Arkestro reserves the right to change duties, responsibilities and activities at any time with or without notice.

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