Qaulity Assurance Engineer, iOS

Mission

Speechify is the easiest way to listen to the world’s information. Articles on the web, documents in the cloud, books on your phone. We absorb it all and let you listen to it at your desk, on the go, at your own speed, and with tools that make learning easier, deeper, and faster. What streaming services have done for audio entertainment, we’re doing for audio information. And whatever we’re doing seems to be working. We’re #1 in our category, and experiencing exponential growth.

Overview

Our team is committed to changing the way people read and with our exponential growth, we are looking for a strong QA engineer to help us succeed through testing mobile applications. We love a commitment to quality and risk assessment, maintaining documentation, and curiosity of testing trends and industry standards.

This is a full-time remote role and can be based anywhere globally.

What You’ll Do

• Develop and execute test plans, test cases, and test scripts for the Speechify iOS app, ensuring comprehensive coverage for both manual and automated testing.
• Collaborate with the development team to identify, reproduce, and document issues and defects in the iOS app.
• Utilize and maintain automation tools and frameworks for iOS, such as Appium, to increase efficiency and reduce manual testing efforts.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends, tools, and best practices in iOS testing and automation.
• Create and maintain test documentation, including test plans, test cases, and test summaries, ensuring they are clear, concise, and up-to-date.
• Communicate testing results, progress, and issues to project stakeholders, including developers, product managers, and customer support teams.
• Participate in agile development processes, attending daily stand-ups, sprint planning sessions, and retrospectives.
• Continuously identify opportunities for process and tool improvements, and work with the team to implement these enhancements.

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• B.S. in Computer Science, related technical field or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of experience in QA engineering, with a focus on iOS testing
• Strong understanding of iOS app development and testing processes, including familiarity with Apple's Human Interface Guidelines and the App Store submission process.
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, such as Bitrise, CircleCI.
• Solid understanding of Agile methodologies and experience working in an Agile environment.
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify, analyze, and resolve issues in a timely manner.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Experience with version control systems, such as Git.

Nice-to-Have

• Experience with text-to-speech technologies.
• Familiarity with accessibility testing and guidelines, such as WCAG.

Engineering at Speechify is Exciting For a Few Reasons

• We provide an opportunity to not only increase your knowledge, but ours as well.
• We strongly believe in sustainable growth. As a startup, we put our customers and employees first.
• Our company vision allows for a lot of creative exploration. What does a future where people consume all information through audio look like? How do we create this future?
• We have life-changing product-market fit. Our users (people with disabilities, students, working professionals) report life-changing experiences after discovering our product.
• We move very quickly. We run many experiments and ship product updates multiple times every week.
• We are focused on customers. We start from concrete user problems and build systems that solve them.
• We value deep thinking. We get to the right answers through careful thought and experimentation and love digging deeper into the details.

What We Offer

• A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product.
• An entrepreneurial-mi