Company:
SchooLinks
Location: Austin
Closing Date: 23/11/2024
Hours: Full Time
Type: Permanent
Job Requirements / Description
SchooLinks is a fast-moving startup and a leader in education technology. Our mission is to leverage technology to make access to opportunities ubiquitous. As a product and engineering team, we accomplish this mission by delivering a best-in-class product that delights students, parents, and the staff that supports them. We ship a lot of code and new features in fast iterations and thus we're looking for a self starter who can learn the software testing craft quickly and then own quality for their respective team.
We are looking for a recent college or boot camp grad ("recent" = previous 12 months) to join our team and learn the challenging and rewarding career of software testing. Although we are a remote company, our requirement for this role is someone who is based in the Austin, TX area and has the flexibility to come to our downtown office at least 3 times per week.
If you're interested in starting your career in technology, SchooLinks is a great place to be. There are plenty of opportunities to learn, expand your career, and grow into different areas outside of QA such as software development, design, and product management.
We presently do not have the ability to sponsor H1-B Visas.
This role will need to work standard US hours, and will need to come into the office in downtown Austin, TX at least 3 days er week.
Your role:
You'll be the QA Engineer on a team whose main goal is to deliver an exciting product that our customers love
You will be responsible for ensuring that the product we deliver is of the highest quality
Planning, documenting, and executing test procedures for new features, bug fixes, and improvements
This will be mainly manual testing, but could expand to automated testing as well
Documenting clear and concise bug write ups so developers understand them the first time
Root cause analysis and investigation of bugs
Identifying and championing process improvements that will help us increase quality and speed
Requirements
Recent college degree or completion of a coding boot camp or other similar program completion
Ability to quickly learn, understand, and document complex business logic - your challenge will be to learn new concepts and application features from our planning meetings and documentation and then apply them to your testing process
Excellent communication skills; written and verbal
Solid organizational skills and time management skills
An eye for design details and polish (the quality of our site is key to our business identity)
Nice to haves
Prior software testing experience (but we really are looking for a recent grad for this role)
Automated testing experience
Playwright
Postman
Locust
Coding or scripting experience
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
Django ORM
Experience with:
Chrome dev tools
REST APIs
SQL databases
Jira, GitHub, Sentry
Interview/Hiring Process
Selected candidates will be asked to submit a one way video interview through our hiring portal. This will be a series of questions that you will record yourself answering.
You will also be sent a few hiring challenges where you will have an opportunity to show us the type of work and attention to detail you are capable of
Interviews with the hiring manager, the team, and VP of Engineering
Background and reference check
We will receive a lot of applications, please be patient with us while we work through them all
Benefits
WFH 2 days per week
snacks, drinks, coffee provided in office
Healthcare plan including vision and dental
Gym membership reimbursement
Life Insurance, Disability Insurance
401k plan with matching up to 1%
Competitive Salary
Long term employment with considerations for promotion and raises every 6 months
We are looking for a recent college or boot camp grad ("recent" = previous 12 months) to join our team and learn the challenging and rewarding career of software testing. Although we are a remote company, our requirement for this role is someone who is based in the Austin, TX area and has the flexibility to come to our downtown office at least 3 times per week.
If you're interested in starting your career in technology, SchooLinks is a great place to be. There are plenty of opportunities to learn, expand your career, and grow into different areas outside of QA such as software development, design, and product management.
We presently do not have the ability to sponsor H1-B Visas.
This role will need to work standard US hours, and will need to come into the office in downtown Austin, TX at least 3 days er week.
Your role:
You'll be the QA Engineer on a team whose main goal is to deliver an exciting product that our customers love
You will be responsible for ensuring that the product we deliver is of the highest quality
Planning, documenting, and executing test procedures for new features, bug fixes, and improvements
This will be mainly manual testing, but could expand to automated testing as well
Documenting clear and concise bug write ups so developers understand them the first time
Root cause analysis and investigation of bugs
Identifying and championing process improvements that will help us increase quality and speed
Requirements
Recent college degree or completion of a coding boot camp or other similar program completion
Ability to quickly learn, understand, and document complex business logic - your challenge will be to learn new concepts and application features from our planning meetings and documentation and then apply them to your testing process
Excellent communication skills; written and verbal
Solid organizational skills and time management skills
An eye for design details and polish (the quality of our site is key to our business identity)
Nice to haves
Prior software testing experience (but we really are looking for a recent grad for this role)
Automated testing experience
Playwright
Postman
Locust
Coding or scripting experience
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
Django ORM
Experience with:
Chrome dev tools
REST APIs
SQL databases
Jira, GitHub, Sentry
Interview/Hiring Process
Selected candidates will be asked to submit a one way video interview through our hiring portal. This will be a series of questions that you will record yourself answering.
You will also be sent a few hiring challenges where you will have an opportunity to show us the type of work and attention to detail you are capable of
Interviews with the hiring manager, the team, and VP of Engineering
Background and reference check
We will receive a lot of applications, please be patient with us while we work through them all
Benefits
WFH 2 days per week
snacks, drinks, coffee provided in office
Healthcare plan including vision and dental
Gym membership reimbursement
Life Insurance, Disability Insurance
401k plan with matching up to 1%
Competitive Salary
Long term employment with considerations for promotion and raises every 6 months
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