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
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
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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