Who you are: Are you someone who’s energetic about delivering quality products? Want to see your work directly impact over 5 million IT pros who use our app to do their jobs. Like to make a real difference at one of Austin’s most exciting startups? Spiceworks just might have a position for you! We’re on the hunt for a Software Test Engineer who’s equal parts automation expert and team leader. You’ll be immersed in the development process, writing automation code like nobody’s business as well as educating and mentoring other test automation engineers.
Who we are: Spiceworks, an 8 year-old Austin-based startup, is transforming how tech products (hardware, software and IT services) are marketed and sold to over 5 million SMB IT pros around the world. Over 2,000 new users join Spiceworks for free each day. How do we keep IT free? Over 3,000 tech brands (including Microsoft, Dell, HP and Rackspace) advertise in Spiceworks to reach these IT pros. Since SMB IT pros have historically been a tough market to reach, vendors love the unique ways Spiceworks helps them reach this elusive market… so much so that Forbes touted us “the future of media”!
What you’ll do: As a meticulous Spiceworks Test Automation Engineer, you’ll be able to deliver automation code… in your sleep! You’ll also define, code and organize regression test suites to ensure product stability and lightning fast delivery. As a strategic problem-solver, you’ll run your manual test with an eye for automating to reduce manual test cycles. You’ll be off-and-running at breakneck pace with little supervision, able to easily grasp and simplify complex concepts, and keep all the plates spinning. Oh, and you’ll have a blast every step of the way!
Responsibilities: What will I do?
- Define and manually execute test cases to ensure product deadlines
- Manually test the product with an eye for usability from the user’s perspective
- Design, code, maintain and execute automated test scripts with Ruby, watir-webdriver, capybara, PhantomJS, Jasmine or similar tools
- Create automated test scripts with various databases (SQlite, postgreSQL) which handles data input and data validations
- Design automated test to run on multiple browsers (Chrome, IE, FF)
- Design, manage and contribute test suites to the Jenkins CI system.
- Work closely with development and other departments as necessary
- Showcase logic/solution-driven thinking
- Take the initiative in a team leader role