QA Engineer

DUST Identity is a physical object security solution that uses nano-diamonds to securely tag physical objects so they are uniquely identifiable. Enabled by the development of new materials, cutting edge hardware, and exciting machine vision, DUST’s customers can ensure that every physical object - whether an airplane part, microprocessor, or priceless artifact - is genuine.

DUST aims to become the industry standard for physical object identification and security.

The Job

We are looking for a highly qualified individual to take our Quality Assurance and Acceptance Testing to the next level. This individual will design, drive, and implement testing tools and practices to ensure that our products exceed the requirements of our customers and our strategic goals.

As part of the Engineering team, you will collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, and our user base, to understand and chart product changes Whether in code, in usage, or in the deployment configuration, your goal is to trace root causes and assure that issues have been addressed before reaching the end customer.

What we need you to do

• Contribute to the setup, configuration and maintenance of software test environments.
• Review functional specifications to assess their impact on software applications and formulate in order to ready the test cases for them.
• Work with team to write automation test scripts and create a library of automated tests to maximize test coverage.
• Continually contribute to testing documentation requirements for internal and external audiences.
• Short-notice-Smoke-test hotfix environments and configurations.
• Adhere to testing master plan across versions, devices, and environment so nothing is left untested.
• Provide release support during production software deployment.
• Have a “break it” attitude toward testing and at the same time be a problem solver.

What You’ll Bring

• Excellent organization skills, with attention to detail and the ability to keep track of many moving parts of QA.
• 5+ years of experience coordinating complex testing efforts.
• Great ability to hunt down and reproduce reported bugs to help our engineers resolve it.
• Good rapport with engineers and non-engineers alike, this is a real team effort.
• Empathy for the customer whose voice you’d represent.
• Degree either in SW engineering or computer engineering.
• Familiarity with GitHub to track changes in the SW.
• Tremendous ownership and accountability.

Preferred knowledge and skills

• Familiarity with relational databases (e.g. postgres, mysql, SQL server, etc.)
• Familiarity with JIRA
• Familiarity with Zephyr Scale
• Experience in REST APIs testing
• Selenium tools (Web Browser automation)
• Robot Framework
• Python (writing GUI tests)
• Linux (for scripting) and Bash
• AWS for Bash (load testing)
• Basic security testing
• Jenkins for running different test harnesses

Hiring Details

Start Date: Immediately. Must have legal right to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Location: Framingham, MA

Compensation: Market Competitive + Equity

DUST Identity is an equal opportunity employer.

Perks

• Working on a product that matters
• Commercializing technology (quantum and blockchain)
• Flex work locations can be accommodated for certain roles
• An abundance of snacks/coffee
• Medical and dental insurance
• Flexible paid time off policy
• Vision insurance
• Casual dress
• Reverse commute with plenty of parking
• 10-minute walk from the train station

Concerning Covid-19

At DUST Identity, we place the utmost importance on the health and safety of our team and our community. To do our part in limiting the spread, all team members that are able to work remotely during this time are doing so. We are sensitive to the individual concerns of each team member and continue to reassess as more information and guidelines are released by the community.

While we hope that the DUST team will eventually return to in-person work, we will remain remote for the foreseeable future.