Senior Quality Engineer
Define and refine software quality aspects to ensure great researcher experience
As a Senior Quality Engineer at Third Iron, you will help define and continually refine the quality aspects of the software lifecycle, create automated tests, and monitor quality metrics. You will work on web applications, a browser extension, and backend APIs used by researchers at over 2,000 organizations across 35+ countries. The role involves collaboration with customer support, release management, and potential involvement in accessibilit...
Why This Role?
Work on software used by researchers at over 2,000 organizations in 35+ countries to enable breakthrough discoveries
Key Responsibilities
- Define and refine quality aspects of the software lifecycle
- Create automated tests using tools like Playwright or Cypress
- Monitor quality metrics to ensure great user experience
- Collaborate with customer support and release management teams
- Contribute to accessibility testing, load testing, or other quality initiatives as needed
Requirements
- Many years of quality experience in an agile environment
- Background as SDET, Release Engineer, or QA role involving web technologies
- Experience with Playwright and/or Cypress is a big positive
- Experience with web applications, browser extensions, and backend APIs
Required Skills
Indonesia Context
- Working Hours Overlap:
- Flexible — work your own hours
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View Original Description from HN Who is Hiring
Original description from HN Who is Hiring
Third Iron | Senior Quality Engineer | REMOTE (US) Do you want to help scientists, doctors, and historians discover breakthroughs? Join our small, fully-distributed software development team to help connect scholars of all disciplines with peer-reviewed journal articles. Our company has been remote-first since we began in 2011. You’ll join a team with plenty of experience putting into practice what works well remotely, and avoiding what doesn’t. We've never taken VC money, and we’ve never had layoffs. Third Iron software is used by researchers at over 2,000 organizations, including universities, hospitals, corporations, and government agencies, located in over 35 countries. In a refreshing change from advertising-dependent tech companies and those who sell user data, we instead have a straightforward business-to-business model. We sell our subscription-based services to libraries, and anyone affiliated with one of these libraries can use our software. We do not sell user data. Our focus is on building the best software to enable research that changes the world. ### Senior Quality Engineer ### We’re looking for a Senior Quality Engineer who wants to help us define and continually refine the quality aspects of our software lifecycle, create automated tests, and monitor our quality metrics to ensure we're providing researchers and librarians with a great experience. Ideally you have many years of quality experience in an agile environment, either as a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET), Release Engineer, or Quality Assurance (QA) role involving web technologies. We care more about the quality of your work than the numbers of years Playwright and/or Cypress experience is a big positive. We primarily create web apps, and we also have a popular browser extension, along with all the backend APIs and systems that support our many customer use cases. Interest in working with our top-notch customer support team, release management, accessibility testing, or load testing are all nice extras, too. If you’re interested in this fully remote position, we're interested to chat with you! Please apply at https://thirdiron.applytojob.com/apply/GRI2SRUc23/Senior-Qua...
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