Senior Quality Engineer (Automated Software Tester)

As a Senior QA Engineer, you will work on our quality engineering initiatives throughout the engineering organization. You will work closely with product development engineers and SRE with a diverse background and collaboratively build automation testing practices. Apollo Engineering strongly believes in allowing team members to take ownership of what they do, and our approach to problem-solving relies heavily upon creativity, communication, and collaboration.

Automation Testing

Adhere to all aspects of QE processes and methodologies and ensure effectiveness and alignment to industry best practices

Designing and developing QE artifacts for automation frameworks like Cypress or Playwright

Achieving QE objectives and deliverables to customers based on quality standards.

Prepare, review, and maintain testing documents (test plan, test cases, test reports,) to ensure complete test coverage

Automating test cases based on product requirements. ◦ Manage proper execution by the QE team on different types of testing (functional, integration, end-to-end, performance, etc)

Internal Tools Ownership

Building QE dashboard to report health metrics of code quality and testing coverage

Enhancing Synthetic monitoring practices with tools like NewRelic

Report and escalate issues with test environments. Must be able to work closely with Dev Ops and the internal clients to support deployment and testing of parallel releases for all channels and platforms.

Supporting engineers on internal tools, systems, and processes.

Project Tasks

Perform QE testing activities as required (test case preparation, testing execution, environment setup, installation, etc)

Task prioritization and project level estimation.

Use of modern project management software such as JIRA to organize epics, stories and tickets and track progress.

Requirements gathering required for projects. ◦ Manage or prepare customer demo presentations for project deliverables when needed.

Providing estimates and plans required for feature development. ◦ Breaking larger tasks down into smaller tasks and identifying the order in which they should be completed.

Using agile project management techniques like stand-ups and weekly sprint planning.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Communicate technical ideas to software developers in written and verbal formats.

Provide strategic testing initiatives for projects to introduce efficient techniques and test productivity improvements.

Work and collaborate with other teams across different offices of the company to achieve organizational objectives when needed .

Manage risks and deliverables to ensure that the testing activities remain within agreed scope, schedule, budget, and quality standards.

Your responsibilities

• Automation Testing
• Adhere to all aspects of QE processes and methodologies and ensure effectiveness and alignment to industry best practices
• Designing and developing QE artifacts for automation frameworks like Cypress or Playwright
• Achieving QE objectives and deliverables to customers based on quality standards.
• Prepare, review, and maintain testing documents (test plan, test cases, test reports,) to ensure complete test coverage
• Automating test cases based on product requirements. ◦ Manage proper execution by the QE team on different types of testing (functional, integration, end-to-end, performance, etc)
• Internal Tools Ownership
• Building QE dashboard to report health metrics of code quality and testing coverage
• Enhancing Synthetic monitoring practices with tools like NewRelic
• Report and escalate issues with test environments. Must be able to work closely with Dev Ops and the internal clients to support deployment and testing of parallel releases for all channels and platforms.
• Supporting engineers on internal tools, systems, and processes.
• Project Tasks
• Perform QE testing activities as required (test case preparation, testing execution, environment setup, installation, etc)
• Task prioritization and project level estimation.
• Use of modern project management software such as JIRA to organize epics, stories and tickets and track progress.
• Requirements gathering required for projects. ◦ Manage or prepare customer demo presentations for project deliverables when needed.
• Providing estimates and plans required for feature development. ◦ Breaking larger tasks down into smaller tasks and identifying the order in which they should be completed.
• Using agile project management techniques like stand-ups and weekly sprint planning.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Communicate technical ideas to software developers in written and verbal formats.
• Provide strategic testing initiatives for projects to introduce efficient techniques and test productivity improvements.
• Work and collaborate with other teams across different offices of the company to achieve organizational objectives when needed .
• Manage risks and deliverables to ensure that the testing activities remain within agreed scope, schedule, budget, and quality standards.

What we offer

• Base salary + 8-12% yearly bonus + equity
• Contract of employment (Polish UoP) + AKUP 50% tax deductible costs with 40-50% creativity factor for the QE role
• 100% remote work (we don’t have offices and we don’t plan to have them) - no hybrid, no forcing people to get back to the offices
• Allianz Medical Package and Warta Life Insurance covered by Apollo
• 1200 USD educational budget
• 300 USD Work From Home Stipend
• 4 additional PTO days for Engineering (Rest Days)
• 100% remote work and flexible working hours

Benefits

• private medical care
• sharing the costs of professional training & courses
• life insurance
• remote work opportunities
• flexible working time
• integration events

What You’ll Love About Apollo

Besides the great compensation package and culture that thrives in openness and excellence, we invest tremendous effort into developing our remote employees’ careers. The team embraces that we have a sole purpose: to help customers maximize their full revenue potential on the Apollo platform. This mindset opens us up to a lot of creative approaches to making customers successful at scale. You’ll be a significant part of a lean, remote team, empowered to really own your role as a proactive educator. We’re very collaborative at Apollo, so you’ll be able to lean on your teammates, even in adjacent departments, to help you achieve lofty goals. You’ll be supported and encouraged to experiment and take educated risks that lead to big wins. And, you’ll have a whole team remotely by your side to help you do it!

Our requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a Software QA Engineer
• 3+ years of experience of related experience working in a PLG Environment
• Experience and good understanding of automation testing and frameworks like Cypress, Selenium, Cucumber, Playwright or Rspec
• Exposure to modern backend programming languages - Java, Python or Ruby (at least one of them)
• Experience with JavaScript and/or Typescript
• Expert knowledge of software testing, quality improvement, quality process, quality assurance methodologies, and best practices
• Experiences in web services, batch/extract file processing, microservice api level testing
• Good experience in Agile testing methodologies and best practices
• Proven experience leveraging AI tools to enhance software development processes, including code generation, debugging, and productivity optimization. Candidates should demonstrate fluency in integrating AI-driven solutions into their workflows and a willingness to stay current with emerging AI technologies

Optional

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related qualifications
• Modern Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment technologies and techniques
• Synthetic Monitoring and Metrics gathering with tools like NewRelic, GCP Logging, Datadog
• Familiarity with Linux Containers and Virtualization (Docker)
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker Compose
• Strong problem-solving abilities and technical reasoning.
• Ability to work cross-functionally with other engineering teams.
• Strong interest in learning new and emerging technologies
• Software Testing or Quality related certification is a plus
• Knowledge of microservices architecture
• Knowledge of the challenges faced by software engineers in a modern engineering department.

OUR TECH STACK

Ruby/RoR, Python, React.js, Typescript, Redux, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Ansible, Terraform, Grafana, Kibana, Docker, Kubernetes, GCP.