Quality Automation Engineer (C-526)

 SMASH, Who we are?

We are agents for tech professionals in Costa Rica and Colombia that help them build careers in the United States. 

We believe in long-lasting relationships with our talent. We invest time getting to know them as individuals and understanding what they are looking for as their professional next step. 

We aim to find the perfect match. As agents, we make sure to pair our talent with our US clients, not only by their technical skills but as a cultural fit. Our core competency is to find the right talent, fast.

We purposefully move away from the “contractor” or “outsourcing” type of relationship. Our clients don’t want contractors or “just a service.” Neither does our talent.

Our Benefits

• Work from everywhere
• Private Medical Insurance
• English Academy for Employees and Relative
• Business Skills Coach – Certifications
• Discounts with Tech Universities
• Events and additional Perks

This is a remote position for Costa Rica and Colombia
This position is Remote to work with a US Company, you will require to have Citizenship or work permit from Costa Rica or Colombia to apply for this role

Duties:

• Plans, designs, authors, and tests applications to maintain high-quality code and deliver a high-quality, effective product and documents all stages of the process including remedies.
• Reproduces reported issues and documents clear reproduction steps.
• Provides high-level technical diagnosis when problems are encountered by finding and tracking defects through to resolution.
• Analyzes project plans and create custom test plans for each project
• Tests new vendor software compatibility and adapts to new software including bug tracking.
• Uses application logs, data analysis, and correlation to existing documented issues
• Defines and reports on quality assurance information to management and stakeholders on results of testing and pertinent issues.
• Interacts with others across the organization, both locally and remotely, in working to ensure that the product is delivered with high quality and adherence to the request.
• Reviews, qualifies, and categorizes incoming issue reports, and prioritizes and balances demands of multiple priority items, and adapts
• Understands end-to-end software systems, from client to server and services interaction
• Identifies differences between established standards and user applications and suggests modifications to conform to standards
• Engages with various software projects in each level of its lifecycle and provide testing coverage of specified user stores
• Assists with release coordination.
• Performs other duties as assigned
• Work with automation frameworks

Requirements:

• 4+ years’ experience supporting and testing software products
• Experience with test methodologies
• Experience with Selenium 
• Experience in working with agile or other iterative fast-paced projects
• Experience with website testing
• Experience with mobile application testing
• Familiar with Azure DevOps
• Familiar with automation frameworks tools
• Familiar with programming languages C#, .NET Core 
• Good English and communication skills, team player, and strong attention to detail

Desired:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or related field.