Software QA Engineer I

At Axon were on a mission to Protect Life. Were explorers pursuing societys most critical safety and justice issues with our ecosystem of devices and cloud software. Like our products we work better together. We connect with candor and care seeking out diverse perspectives from our customers communities and each other.

Life at Axon is fast-paced challenging and meaningful. Here youll take ownership and drive real change. Constantly grow as you work hard for a mission that matters at a company where you matter.

Were out to make the world a safer place by solving big problems and taking on the public safety challenges of our time. From our companys inception building the TASER to a full suite of hardware and software solutions we are focused on providing police agencies with the state-of-the-art devices and services they need to successfully serve and protect the next few years were going to improve the quality and frequency of police training. We work closely with law enforcement and the community in our training content. We are innovating police training and we wont stop innovating until the bullet is rendered obsolete.

Its a big mission but its one well pursue relentlessly every single day.

You arent like everybody else. You aim a little higher. You reach a little further. Your experience is much broader than just a previous career or a few past jobs. Youve been listening learning and paying attention to recent events which have demonstrated to you why building world-class technology for Public Safety is so important. You do more because it matters to you. And when it comes to looking for that next opportunity you want to do work that matters to others.

At Axon we build connected devices such as body cameras powered by an industry-leading digital evidence management platform. Our hardware software and training platforms bring security efficiency and transparency to law enforcement and are enabling us to truly change the world. The Axon business is growing rapidly and we are looking for a dedicated and proven Quality Assurance Engineer to join our Virtual & Augmented Reality team.

In this role you will work with the engineering teams to support QA efforts across our Community Engagement Training and Simulator Training products in Virtual Reality. The role focuses on helping define execute and document a series of QA steps that will result in providing the best possible experience for our users. This is a fast-paced role that works directly with other developers and QA leads to analyze and isolate software and hardware failures resulting in thorough actionable bugs

You will join an interdisciplinary team that is tackling the biggest challenges in public safety training head-on including immersive VR-based empathy and de-escalation training to help officers engage with the communities they serve with greater awareness and safety. We seek to revolutionize how training is implemented within public safety and we seek to accomplish this while abiding to the following guiding principles:

1. Build VR Solutions for Social Good: With our mission to Protect Life we develop VR solutions that benefit both law enforcement and the community while addressing key issues in society.
2. Empower Agencies with Data: Deliver ongoing data and analysis that provide agencies with key insights that enable them to make decisions that result in building better more efficient and positive programs.
3. Develop an Active and Diverse Virtual Platform: Leverage the latest in VR technologies to create a robust portfolio of solutions and the highest-quality content that enable users to be more effective in their roles and manage the challenges of 21st century public safety.

We believe that happy teams make the best products so we foster a friendly open introspective team culture that encourages everyone to speak their mind collaborate together and have fun.

We believe we can only succeed if we deeply understand our customers and get to know them. We spend a lot of time with law enforcement officers to learn about their needs watch their experience and see the real impact of our work. We also work closely with our Axon Community Impact team along with other community subject experts to create our content and curriculum to reflect the needs of both law enforcement community.

• Execute maintain and collaborate on test cases
• Add cases to an existing/established area
• Edit existing cases for accuracy
• Investigate and report on software and hardware bugs
• Report newly discovered issues and verify bug fixes
• Review bug reports from other team members
• Weekly reporting of task progress and bugs logged
• Review hardware firmware and software architecture to ensure testability
• Review requirements specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback
• Collaborate with developers designers and product managers to identify test coverage

• 0-3 years Experience in a QA/testing position
• Experience writing test cases test plans and implementing test strategy
• Experience reviewing logs to derive the root-cause of bugs
• Competency with command line tools
• Experience with commonly used bug-tracking software such as Jira Bugzilla Mantis etc
• Clear accurate and succinct written and verbal communication
• Understanding of the software development life-cycle and quality assurance
• Experience with Android debugging tools
• Experience working with a variety of automated and manual testing methodologies

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in computer science or related field or equivalent work experience required

• Competitive salary and 401K with employer match
• Discretionary paid time off
• Robust parental leave policy
• An award-winning office/working environment
• Ride along with real police officers in real life situations see them use technology get inspired
• And more...