Position: Senior QA Engineer
Company: Alcor
Category: QA
Experience required: 3y
English level: intermediate

In this role, you will apply your significant skills and experience to improve our test coverage, helping to develop a regression suite inclusive of automated and manual testing.

What you’ll be doing

Collaborating with product managers and engineers to improve test coverage
Creating test plans and proposing performance benchmarks
Developing a regression suite inclusive of automated and manual testing
Conducting exploratory tests for web services, plugins and other integrations
Supported by

The wider QA practice and DevOps team, handling CI/CD pipeline automation for performance, security and integration testing
Required skills

4+ years of experience as a QA/Test professional
Strong knowledge of QA/QC methodologies, tools and processes; with a focus on diagnostics that produces clear reproduction steps for verified defects
Experience with API testing (e.g. Postman, scripting)
Experience with front-end troubleshooting (e.g. Chrome Dev Tools, Lighthouse)
Highly organized and detail oriented
Ability to think outside the box, find flaws in web apps and APIs
Intermediate English speaking and writing: able to articulate complex ideas
As a plus

Experience with BDD
Prior experience with test automation frameworks (e.g. Cypress, Selenium or similar)
Experience with test management tools (e.g. Zephyr, TestRail or others)
Experience in a Scientific (Biology and/or Chemistry) or Clinical software domains; with an understanding of scientific and mathematical accuracy
Experience testing and measuring application performance
Ability to work with databases and write SQL to help with QA/QC
Knowledge of scripting languages (JavaScript, Python)
Experience of high-security and/or compliance needs (e.g. ISO 27K)
Experience in producing, or supporting the production of release notes and/or relevant user documentation