Quality Assurance Tester - capSpire : Job Details

Why Gravitate?

At Gravitate, we're on a mission to put everyday supply and logistics decisions in motion, powered by innovative problem-solving from industry experts.

A lot of companies say it. We mean it: Gravitate is different. Rooted in the spirit of collaboration, we thrive on the smarts of our people and the dynamic we've cultivated.

Tell me about the role.

Gravitate provides AI-enabled collaboration, automation, and decision support software for energy and commodity organizations. Your role will be to act as the strategic product SME from a quality standpoint and to champion good product design from feature blueprinting to final acceptance testing. We expect this person to have a strong background in all areas of testing as well as partner with our product & operation team to identify edge cases and gotchas early in the development process.

Skills Required:

● 5+ years of experience within quality assurance and manual testing, specifically taking a high-level, technofunctional approach to quality assurance by acting as an early warning system during product build-out.

● Experience with Zephyr Scale or other test case management software

● Strong background in planning, creating and executing manual test cases

● Ability to execute test cases using methodologies such as ATDD (Acceptance Test Driven Development) or BDD (Behavior Driven Development)

● Ability to follow and proactively improve QA standards, templates and documentations

● Strong background within an Agile environment

● BS in Computer Science or similar technical field of study

Nice to have:

● API test experience, specifically using Postman or a similar tool

● Exposure or experience within the energy industry

Key Responsibilities:

● Champion quality throughout the feature development and testing process; create test strategy for the products.

● Support and maintain steps to adopt the “shift-left” mentality and methodology

● Partner with other QAs to create test plans, document test design specifications and test cases for various testing types including functional (system integration), security vulnerability, performance/load/stress, compliance/accessibility, regression, and user acceptance testing

● Demonstrates clarity of thinking and design end-to-end test scenarios to work through limited information and vague problem definitions

● Comfortability with calling out edge cases and use cases early in feature discovery

● Ensures that a feature is written properly and that testing will satisfy acceptance criteria

● Design automation-friendly test cases

● Perform exploratory testing and sign it off with the Product Owner

● Review Unit Tests, Integration Tests and Development PRs and highlight when scenarios are missing on the different test laters, all while taking into consideration the percentage of the scope for each later.

About the Gravitate team:

To understand who our people are, you should first understand what they're not: replaceable. Each member of the team is chosen carefully and with intention. We believe that finding the right fit is more important than a laundry list of credentials – and that people are people first, and titles second.

Because we hire the Gravitate way, our team is certainly one of a kind. We've brought together incredible talent that regularly collaborates to create clean, fresh solutions. That effort has led to remarkable opportunities, including work with many Fortune 500 clients. We've found that the winning combination of exciting achievements, trust in one another and open communication lays the groundwork for long-lasting, successful careers. That, and the fact that we clap for each other at every opportunity.

Problem solvers, go-getters and charge-takers - we (really) want to hear from you.