QA Engineer

Company Introduction

Our mission is to enable every organization to be climate conscious and positive with the world’s best climate software and data products. Persefoni is creating an all-in-one platform that allows organizations to measure, analyze, and reduce their Enterprise Carbon Footprint. Our goal is to provide our customers unprecedented visibility and insights into the impact their organization has on the environment. Leveraging the latest breakthroughs in data science and software, our technology will empower teams and leaders to mobilize their organizations to continuously improve their greenhouse gas emissions metrics.

About The Role (What you will get to do)

The Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer will work with the team to develop, maintain, and execute automated tests primarily using Cypress.io. 

The QA Engineer will serve as a critical member of the quality assurance team, and will be responsible for upholding test code quality standards through code review and coaching. This role will also develop tooling and lay technical foundations to enrich our QA capabilities, while participating in agile ceremonies with their assigned development teams and manually testing new features as they become code complete.

Responsibilities (What we expect)

• Develop & maintain test automation frameworks and automated tests to support day to day operations of web platforms.
• Work together with other Quality Engineers to ensure effective verification of test specifications and requirements.
• Identify areas requiring quality improvement, initiate and follow through on plans of action necessary for implementation.
• Develop new automated test scripts.
• Work closely with Product Owners and Project Managers to ensure effective validation of user needs and business requirements.
• Perform smoke tests and regression testing, both manual and automated, as part of the release cycle.

Qualifications (What you bring to the role)

• 4+ years of professional experience as a QA Automation Engineer or similar role highly focused on software testing automation.
• Strong programming skills in JavaScript.
• Strong experience in designing, creating, and executing complex test plans.
• Strong experience with Playwright.
• Applied knowledge of manual testing.
• Experience in automated API testing, specifically using Postman.
• Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process.
• Be available as needed to assist in production deployments on alternating Friday evenings from approximately 4pm - 7pm PST.
• Proficiency in the English language is highly preferred. 

• Experience with performance and/or security testing.
• Experience with programming languages such as Python and/or Go.
• Knowledge of CI/CD and experience working with Jenkins, CircleCI, or similar tools.

How You'll Know You’re on the Right Track

• Within your first two weeks, you will have a basic understanding of the Persefoni platform, the roles of the teams that are building it, and where your contributions will  be the most valuable. You will also recognize how we apply our culture code (i.e., operating principles) and be able to apply it in your daily activities. You will shadow other QA Engineers to understand the technology and tools we are using, our internal best practices, and start to develop a deep understanding of QA at Persefoni.
• Within your first four weeks, you will understand the needs of our growing QA infrastructure and begin to develop automated tests, quickly and effectively growing our test repo to increase coverage of existing features.
• Within six weeks of your start date, you will grow to fully support one or more application teams by developing automated tests for all new features being developed. You will actively participate in maintaining our automated suite as well as supporting our release processes via both manual and automated testing.

Job Type:

Full-time position located in Vietnam governed by Vietnam labour regulations, with the Persefoni entity being established in Vietnam.   

Interview Process

• Step 1: Initial screen with talent acquisition
• Step 2: Technical Interview
• Step 3: Interview with Vietnam Country Director
• Step 2: Interview with Engineering Leadership team
• Step 4: Offer extended
• Step 5: Background check and onboarding

Persefoni is an Equal Opportunity employer

One of our company Core Values is 'Equality' which emphasizes our commitment to value and respect people and organizations of all backgrounds. We proudly bring this to life by fostering a culture of innovation, creativity, diversity of thought, and inclusion.

We strive for each of our team members to be able to show up for work every day as their genuine selves. Similar to the reverence given to Earth’s biodiversity, we recognize the vast potential that exists when all of the facets of diversity within our team are appreciated and illuminated. This policy extends to all aspects of our employment practices.