Golang / Go Job: QA Engineer

QA Engineer at CB Insights

🇺🇸 United States › New York › New York   (Posted Mar 19 2014)

About the company
CB Insights helps you track the world's most promising private companies, their investors, their acquirers and the industries they compete in to help you invest smarter.

Job position
Permanent

Job description
Help us turn a great product into a perfect one.
CB Insights is a seeking an QA Engineer who can design and implement automated systems that test our products in every conceivable way. This includes scripts that ensure any code we deploy to production - whether related to our web app, our API or even our Chrome extension - is of the highest quality. The QA Engineer will work closely with software developers and product managers to devise system, regression and stress test plans. This person will also manage the bug fix pipeline, prioritizing and ultimately verifying closure

Skills & requirements
Key Responsibilities:
Work with engineers and product managers to create, implement, and improve QA procedures for our web interface and API products
Perform and participate in all aspects of manual and automated verification. This includes feature and functional testing, unit testing, regression, load and performance testing
Provide clear bug and issue descriptions and assist in escalations as needed
Create and apply new approaches and concepts to improve the productivity and efficiency of testing practices
Requirements:
Strong programming skills obtained through a degree or equivalent experience.
Demonstrated ability to handle QA applications independently
Ability to confidently tell a developer something isn't working properly even when he/she insists that it is
A desire to constantly improve things
An analytical, detail-oriented mind, as well as strong verbal / written skills
Familiarity with JavaScript, jQuery, Go, Python and PHP are plusses.

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