Principal Quality Engineer

Title: Principal Quality Engineer

Fulltime

Location is Remote (Travel to client location at Lehi UT once or twice a month travel expenses will be covered)

Job Type

Fulltime

Description

Principal Quality Engineer. This role is a 100% remote with monthly

traveling requirement to our corporate headquarters located in Lehi Utah.

Most importantly for this role you will be expected to think outside the box; test not only the

happy path of new features and functionality but test the What if conditions as well. We

want to make sure our software is robust enough to handle the unexpected. As we continue to

expand the system its understood that a lot of things might be overlooked each week so it is

important to work towards creating automated tests that can duplicate the manual testing

done on new features. Continually adding new test cases is a huge benefit to the company. You

should also work well with others and understand how to read code including Java HTML &

Vue (JavaScript) and have a basic understanding of web frameworks and applications.

Requirements

What will I need to thrive in this role

Drive the software quality assurance lifecycle.

Establishing and coordinating test strategies.

Managing and mentoring QA team members at least 2 years experience managing a QA team with onshore / offshore members.

Each day of the week is spent working on the progression of the next release and ensuring that the work that the developers do meets our expectations for quality and acceptance.

Releases are deployed to production each Thursday evening at around 10PM MST you will be expected to be in attendance virtually for these releases to vet the deployment each week.

Fridays through the following Thursdays are primarily working to test (manual and automated) completed tickets that have been merged to the master branch of our system.

Testing includes working with mobile devices web and command line systems to ensure correctness of the system and its parts.

Occasional hotfixes and emergency tests are required if a bug is found in our production environment that affects our customer base.

Work with our Tech support team to validate bugs found by them or our customers.

Attend daily standup meetings with the development team to ensure close working relationships with them and to understand the testing load that is upcoming.

What does high performance look like in this role

High performance PQEs are continually adding value to the team helping the development team become more efficient and more

accurate. Adding tests to our test suite and ensuring that we find and maintain processes that facilitate correctness in our platform is key to this role. Bringing innovative ideas and processes in effort toward the pursuit of more efficient release cycles is always a benefit to the company.

What is my potential for career growth

It depends on your aspirations and desires. Weve had some QSTs transition to Software

Developers QE Team leads and more! We are a company who values internal candidates and

wants to see you grow with us so as you have monthly oneonone meetings with your

manager talk about what your goals are and well see how we can help you get there.

What is the team like The QA/QE team is small but provides huge benefits to the Engineering

department. Overall there are 8 QE people who work on this product and about 25 developers

that youll be working closely with. Our team is founded on humility and teamwork and we

make sure that there is no such thing as a dumb question. We know that we all have different

backgrounds and expertise so when you need to tap into someone elses pool of knowledge

know that theres not going to be an ego when you ask for help.