QA Engineer 2

Hi, we’re Actabl.

Are you excited about a career in SaaS that has a direct effect on the hospitality industry? This might be the perfect opportunity for you! Our mission is to empower the people that power hospitality. We’re on a journey to provide better solutions for hotel companies as the world around us evolves and changes related to using technology, finding labor, and maximizing profits. We give hoteliers actionable insights to know what to do, the tools to do it, and the visibility to know it worked. We bring together powerful hospitality tech solutions to maximize profits for more than 10,000 properties in hospitality markets around the world.

Our Valued Behaviors

• Start with People: We are in the hospitality business and hospitality starts with people. This impacts both our being and our doing.
  • Being: We are responsible for building relationships, earning trust, and having fun. These things are fundamental to hospitality.
  • Doing: We will succeed if we start with great people working as one team. Empower others, speak the truth with care, and go together.
• Demand Integrity: Be trustworthy, be ethical, and be consistent whether someone is watching or not. Demand integrity of yourself and others to build the fabric of a high-integrity organization.
• Delight the Customer: We aim to delight our customers in the same way our customers aim to delight their guests. The question is not if completed a process or hit a metric, the question is whether or not the customer is delighted.
• Champion Innovation: We compete in the game of change and win through innovation. Think big and then think bigger when it comes to the innovation required to tackle the problems our customers face daily. 
• Make it Happen: We show up prepared, care about the details, and follow through. Don't get distracted. Don't stop at blockers. Don't make excuses. Find a way and drive until it is done.

Position Summary:

As a Manual QA Engineer at Actabl, your mission is to protect Actabl’s brand by ensuring high quality product releases. You will be an integral part of our Quality Assurance team by defining and planning test strategy, creating new test suites, and running test executions with minimal guidance. You will work closely with experienced engineers, testers, product managers, who you will be learning from, and contribute to maintain the expected quality standard of our software solutions for hospitality. This role is ideal for passionate and driven individuals who are looking to build a solid foundation in software quality engineering and grow in their careers. 

Essential Duties:

• Test features to enable releasing them to customers with utmost quality standards 
• Designing and executing Regression and Functional Testing
• Create and execute test strategies with minimal day-to-day involvement
• Find bugs in the testing environment before the code is released to production
• Execute previously defined test suites from the test case repository (XRAY)
• Create new test scenarios for hotfix issues and customer complaints and document them in XRAY
• Constantly scour the application looking for gaps in the current testing coverage. 
• Keeping test cases up to date due to product changes/updates/enhancements. 
• Demonstrate an understanding of work items/issues when they are discussed and know when to ask clarifying (concise and well framed) questions to further your understanding. 
• Document precise replication steps for identified bugs and collaborate with the developers to identify the root cause

Other Duties & Responsibilities (Optional)

• Strong communication skills with product owners and developers about issues and questions about work items. 
• You are extremely reliable and get work completed in a timely manner with correct prioritization
• Provide proactive and reliable communication to your supervisor regarding work related issues, absences from work, etc. 
• Train new hires in skills specific to their tasks
• Continuous improvement in the existing test coverage by seeking candidates to build new test cases from items being developed in sprints

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience
• 2 years of experience

Key Competencies:

• Experience in Agile methods, particularly Scrum
• Experience in documenting high quality test cases
• Experience using defect tracking tools Jira etc