Website Kasmo Inc
Kasmo Inc
Company : Kasmo Inc
Job Title: QA Analyst 5 (Senior QA Automation Engineer/ Senior SDET)
Req ID: (phone number removed)
Location: Remote
Duration: 12 months
Position's Contributions to Work Group:
– This position will fulfill the role of a full time automation engineer working with several developers across the Value Simulation Team
– Roles and responsibilities of this position will be listed in great detail below
Typical task breakdown:
– Review Pull Request code from peers
– Attend a small number of team meetings and stay in touch
– Read, understand and refine requirements for their work items, and sync up with the team
– Test their own work, clean up, and refactor code
– Estimate effort required to complete work items
– Help refine requirements for their work items, sync up with team
– Read and understand technical requirements
– Read and understand business need behind work items
– Iterate on work until it is deemed done by the team
– Write automated tests (UI/API)
Education & Experience Required:
– Years of experience: 10+
– Degree requirement: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering or relevant field required
– Do you accept internships as job experience: Yes
– Are there past or additional job titles or roles that would provide comparable background to this role: we are open to reviewing past or additional job titles or roles that would provide us the right level of experience we are looking for
Top technical skills:
– API/UI automation (3y, strong)
– Playwright (3y, competent)
– C# or similar (3y, strong)
– HTML, CSS (2y, strong)
Top soft skills:
– Get things done, the right way, stay in touch
– Critical thinking, problem solving, attention to detail
– Positive, "can do" attitude, integrates well into a team
– Diligent, responsible, self-sufficient
– Great communication all round
Additional Technical Skills
– Angular (bonus)
– C# (3y, competent)
– ASP.NET (bonus)
– SQL (2y, competent)
– Azure Cloud (bonus)
– JavaScript (2y, competent)
– TypeScript (2y, competent)
– HTML (2y, strong)
– CSS (2y, strong)
– CosmosDB (or any noSQL database + SQL language) (bonus)
– JSON (2y, competent)
– REST API (2y, strong)
– Figma (bonus)
– Git (2y, strong)
– Unit tests (bonus)
– UI automation using Playwright (3y, strong)
– Mobile automation (1y, competent)
– API automation (3y, strong)
– Visual testing (1y, competent)
– Manual testing (2y, strong)
– Programming / scripting (3y, strong)
– CI pipelines. Azure DevOps Pipelines YAML (which we use), or others (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc) (2y, strong)
– Powershell (bonus)
– Windows (FYI)
– Test data management (2y, strong)
Soft Skills
– Habitually writes clean code: thoughtful naming, separation of concerns, documentation
– Carefully handles complex logic that deals with numerous business requirements
– Has highly developed UI/UX intuitions
– Thinks of many use cases, failure cases, and edge cases
– Suggests improvements to requirements when needed
– Clarifies requirements in a timely manner
– Feels comfortable with an Agile-spirited workflow
– Enjoys problem solving and excels at it
– Has excellent communication skills (verbal and text)
– Provides regular, timely updates on the progress and issues
– Has a positive, "can do" attitude
– Takes pride in ensuring the quality of their work
– Willing to follow existing solutions, processes and procedures, and challenge them when necessary
– Determined to become a power user of the app in the near future
– Continuously engaged with the project for the full amount of agreed hours
– Makes decisions on their own and knows when it's best to consult with the team
– Can organize a productive day for themselves and are mindful of commitments to other team members
– Takes an active part in discussions, and speaks out if something does not feel right
– Completes long stretches of work on their own efficiently and engages the team when necessary
– Handles disagreement in a professional manner
Disqualifiers/Red Flags/Overqualifications:
– Don't offer candidates located between GMT+4 to GMT+7 (inclusive) due to team meeting schedule