Junior QA Engineer
Remote
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Remote is solving global remote organizations’ biggest challenge: employing anyone anywhere compliantly. We make it possible for businesses big and small to employ a global team by handling global payroll, benefits, taxes, and compliance. Check out remote.com/how-it-works to learn more or if you’re interested in adding to the mission, scroll down to apply now.
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All of our positions are fully remote. You do not have to relocate to join us!
The Position
You'll be joining 180+ engineers across Frontend, Backend, SRE, Data and QA. We're organised into cross-functional development teams assigned to a specific area of our product.
As Junior QA Engineer, you will be working directly with other QA Engineers in challenging implementations to support the whole company by creating tests for Cypress in JavaScript and our Elixir backend as well as closely together with one or multiple teams to assist them in testing and improving their quality processes.
You'll be coached by more senior QA Engineers and Developers in best practices on automation for our front-end and back-end solutions, assist on CI improvements and help enforcing a quality mindset throughout the company.
What this job can offer you
- Making impactful quality-wise improvements across the company.
- Learn / improve coding expertise by automating tests for both front-end and back-end.
- Work closely together with both QA engineers and developers.
- A lot of freedom to organize your work and life — you are not bound to daily standups or other ceremonies.
- A supportive and kind work environment where you can grow and challenge yourself to do your best work.
- Pragmatic and product-focused Engineering culture — read more about our practices and work ethic.
- Competitive salary, stock options, unlimited PTO, a generous learning budget, and a set of other perks and benefits.
What you bring
- Good communication skills in both listening and understanding, as well as speaking and being understood
- The ability to read through documentations, understand requirements and ask questions when in doubt
- Basic JavaScript programming logic to increase our test coverage and participate on discussions with the product development teams
- Willingness to listen and learn from more senior engineers and develop new skills
- Strong ability to work independently and self-guided
- Knowledge of testing principles and applying them to work beyond the happy path
Practicals
- You'll report to: QA Team Lead
- Team: Engineering
- Location: Americas, Europe, and Africa.
- Start date: As soon as possible
Remote Compensation Philosophy
Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.
Application process
Roughly 6 hours across 6 weeks
- Interview with recruiter
- Interview with Hiring Manager
- (async) Code challenge
- (async) Code Challenge Review
- Interview with team members
- Prior employment verification check (Read more at remote.com/employment-checks)
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Benefits
- work from anywhere
- unlimited personal time off (minimum 4 weeks)
- quarterly company-wide day off for self care
- flexible working hours (we are async)
- 16 weeks paid parental leave
- mental health support services
- stock options
- learning budget
- home office budget & IT equipment
- budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces
How you’ll plan your day (and life)
We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at remote.com/async.
You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.
If that sounds like something you want, apply now!
How to apply
- Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format.
- We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote.
- If you don’t have an up to date CV but you are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead.
We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below. As an equal employment opportunity employer it’s important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and this data will help us to stay accountable. We thank you for providing this data, if you chose to.
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