Quality Assurance Developer

OPIsystems Inc.  Role Description

Title:  QA Developer

Position Purpose:  The QA Developer assists the Development organization by adding and supporting automated regression scenarios for our in-market products. A successful candidate will be able to create and maintain their own scripts, and execute them as part of a Continuous Integration development pipeline. This role also requires troubleshooting of our IoT hardware and end-to-end testing of our releases.

Firmware and Web Regression Testing

Tasks & Activities:

• Executes structured regression test suites against each new firmware and web release, ensuring previously validated functionality across the full solution has not been degraded.


• Maintains and updates regression test cases as firmware and web front end features evolve, adding coverage in conjunction with automated testing responsibilities.


• Prioritize regression testing efforts based on the scope of firmware changes, focusing on impacted subsystems.


• Communicate regression test results in a timely manner, clearly flagging blocking issues that may affect release timelines or deployed field devices.


• Install, maintain, and observe hardware required by the QA team to perform end-to-end testing.


• Reproduce and isolate hardware-related defects by systematically varying environmental conditions, firmware versions, and hardware configurations.


• Log all identified defects in the team's defect tracking system with complete and accurate information.

Automate End-to-End tests for our software projects

Tasks & Activities:

• Creates automated tests using product acceptance criteria.


• Debugs existing automated scripts.


• Tracks coverage of strategic automation test coverage.


• Builds and maintains automation tools.


• Leverages popular testing tools – such as Playwright and BrowserStack – to efficiently implement automated tests.


• Submits clear and detailed defect reports.

Continuous testing using CI/CD practices

Tasks & Activities:

• Executes automates tests within a Continuous Testing pipeline.


• Includes cloud-hosted technologies in their test execution.

Gradual improvement of our automated test practices

Tasks & Activities:

• Proactively identifies future automated tests.


• Enables manual testing efforts by covering repetitive tests using automation


• Records technical and industry knowledge as a member of the Quality team.


• Adapts automated test practices to existing development practices.


• Collaborates with the Engineering team on testing practices.


• Gradually and consistently moves test automation efforts forward. Can manage multiple discrete units of work.

Qualifications

• Ability to work on premises.


• Education or professional experience in Quality Assurance.


• Automated test script creation and troubleshooting.


• Professional experience with a programming language.


• Test execution using CI/CD pipeline technology.


• Excellent communication and facilitation skills.


• Proven ability to drive continuous improvement and foster a culture of collaboration.


• Experience working with cross-functional and geographically distributed teams.


• Knowledge of Agile tools and practices, specifically Jira.

Desired Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technical field, such as Software, Computer, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering.


• Proficient with Python.


• Expertise with testing tools, such as Appium, WebDriver, Postman, or Cypress.


• Unit testing framework experience, ideally PyTest.


• BDD-style test case experience is ideal.


• Previous experience working in an IoT or hardware company.


• Familiarity with any cloud platform. Ideally, administrative experience with a cloud platform, preferably AWS.


• Test case management using tools such as X-ray or Zephyr.