Senior Quality Engineer
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Minneapolis, MN - USA
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Job Summary
Do you want to help scientists make breakthroughs doctors save lives and historians learn from our past Join our small fully-remote software development team that builds tools to connect scholars of all disciplines with the peer-reviewed journal articles that advance their research.
Third Irons industry-leading software servicesBrowZineandLibKeyare used by millions of students doctors industry researchers and scientistsaffiliated with over 2000 libraries at universities hospitals corporations and government departments in over 35 countries including places like Stanford University Mayo Clinic NHS England and University of Hong Kong.
In a refreshing change from advertising-dependent tech companies or those who sell user data we instead have a straightforward business-to-business model. Wesellour subscription-based services to libraries that may be used by anyone affiliated with them. We do not sell focus is on building the best software to enableresearch that changes the world.
Your Role
As a Senior Quality Engineer you will help lead our Quality Assurance approach defining and improving our quality processes across all of our systems. You will also lead the tooling and implementation of automated UI testing as well as incorporating manual exploratory testing where appropriate.Products we are responsible for include web apps a browser extension internal web app tools Javascript code that enhances other library tools and some APIs used by external library technology groups.
Quality-focused teammates are fully integrated into the Software Development team. You attend our quick daily standup our end-of-sprint demo day retrospective and requirements discussion meetings.
Each of our systems already have an extensive suite of automated tests that are run on every commit in CI. However we are looking to improve our test suites with more UI automation helping us capture precise reports of how our systems are performing to enable even stronger confidence that things are behaving as we intend without undesired visual glitches or behavior regressions.
What You Would Do at Third Iron
- Help develop and maintain quality processes for our software development team
- Monitor quality metrics including deciding whichmetrics to monitor and ignoring unhelpfulmetrics
- Promote best practices in automation and testing strategy
- Design develop and maintainrobust automated testing solutions across ourUI layers forindustry-leading SaaS applications (and a little API testing too)
- Execute testing of new features and ensuretheir smooth integration into production environments
- Help drive quality across theengineeringorganization
What Were Looking For
- Experience with automation ideallyusing either JavaScript TypeScript or NodeJS. We are currently evaluating Playwright
- Strong communication skills since we are a fully-distributed remote team clear timely and frequent communication is essential
- Interest in defining and refining the QA process
- Experience with source controlideallygit
- Self-motivation andcomfortworkingindependently which weve found is important for remote working
- Interest in lifelong learning including learning new technologies. We embrace the tools and techniques that help us build great software which lets us sleep soundly at night with high confidence thatour users are having a delightful experience and our servers are not catching fire
- Interest in AI. We use AI tooling such as Cursor and Claude where we feel it helps the most including assisting in code review andovercoming that initial activation energy and research to get a change started. We keep humans in the loop for the important decisions though including making plans and commitments and choosing when and what to merge and deploy. Were curious how you see AI working into increasing and maintaining software quality
- Someone with many years of qualityexperience in an agile environment either asa Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) Release Engineer or QA roleinvolving web technologies. We care more about the quality of your work than the numbers of years
- People with U.S. work authorizations. (We are looking for a full-time developer to join our team so please no software development firms looking to hire out contractors - were interested in talking directly to QA engineers)
Bonus points if youre interested in...
- Assisting our top-notchcustomer support team todocument and/or reproducetricky bugs that they wereunable to fully address for users
- Release management
- Accessibility testing which has rapidly becomeanimportant compliance requirement forour customers
- Automated load testing
Working at Third Iron
Third Iron is a small company of 30 employees and our growth and success havebeen fueled by the passionate curious people who work here.
Understanding that work is just part of your life Third Iron also provides benefits including health dental long-term disability paid time-off home-office stipend and more. Its why most employees who work at Third Iron spend many years of their careershere. You could too!
Apply
To apply fill out the job application and please include anything that helps demonstrate how you would be a great teammate. Examples include links to your source control or StackOverflow profile articles or presentations youve created or even just reporting bugs on open source a short paragraph describing how youve approached building or improving a test suite would be helpful. Were looking for something to help us learn how you contribute to a team that makes products for our many enterprise SaaS customers.
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