Lead Quality Assurance Software Developer

Salary: $135,000 Employment Type: Full-time Location Type: Remote

Position Overview

Resource Innovations is seeking a Lead Quality Assurance Software Developer to join our growing Software As A Service (SaaS) team. As a hands-on Lead QA Software Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring overall software quality, working closely with the software teams to define, prioritize, and test user stories, and helping to coordinate regular software releases with DevOps. This position will work on a wide range of SaaS products that fundamentally change how utilities manage business processes and customer initiatives for energy efficiency, renewable energy, demand response, and conservation. We are looking for candidates who want to work on things that make an impact on the world and are passionate about product craftsmanship.

This is a remote position requiring occasional in-person office meetings for candidates residing in one of the following metro areas: San Francisco CA, Chicago IL, Phoenix AZ, Denver CO, or Madison WI. We require candidates to currently reside in the United States. Unfortunately, we are not offering visa sponsorship or extensions for this position.

Responsibilities

• Plan, develop, and execute comprehensive software quality assurance and testing strategies.
• Analyze software requirements, develop, and perform end-to-end functional, regression, integration, and performance tests.
• Design, document, execute, and maintain test automation scripts and test cases.
• Develop a repository of test plans and detailed functional test cases to cover all use-cases.
• Lead initiatives to automate and improve testing while reducing overall time to market.
• Drive performance and accountability using meaningful QA metrics and reports.
• Peer review test scripts and test automation code as required.
• Track defect tickets and verify resolution.
• Work closely with Software Development and Product Management teams.
• Work in scrum teams following agile methodology, participate in stand-ups, and report status.
• Support DevOps with software releases through test, staging, and production environments.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field.
• 8+ years of Software QA experience delivering high-performance, reliable, and scalable SaaS applications.
• Strong technical domain knowledge of quality assurance processes and methodologies.
• Hands-on expertise developing test automation utilizing Selenium and Jenkins.
• Experience working with Test Development tools like JUnit, TestNG, Mockito and Java, JavaScript & MySQL.
• Experience with Agile software development life-cycle, including Jira, Confluence, and Git.
• Critical thinking, strong analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.
• Detail-oriented mindset with a commitment to maintaining the highest standards of quality.
• Working knowledge of the following:
  • AWS Cloud Platform & Services
  • Application Performance Management tools like JMeter, New Relic
  • UI/UX design principles
  • DevOps, CI/CD pipeline and software release management

Company Information

Resource Innovations (RI) is a women-led energy transformation firm focused on impact. Building on our expertise in energy efficiency, we’re constantly expanding our portfolio of clean energy solutions to guide utilities through increasingly complex, connected challenges. Load flexibility. Electrification. Carbon reduction. With every step, we’re leading the charge to power change.