Staff Software Test Engineer

Who We Are

In 2021, Poatek was acquired by WillowTree, an award-winning digital product consultancy recognized as one of the fastest growing and best places to work in the United States. Now a TELUS International company, with offices across the globe, we continue to partner with the world’s leading brands, such as Fox, Capital One, HBO, PepsiCo, Domino’s and more, to design, build, and transform their digital products and strategies. We’re looking to grow our Poatek offices in Brazil with top talent excited to collaborate with team members across the globe to deliver innovative solutions for our clients.

Location and Flexibility

This is a hybrid role. This model requires the ability to work in a hybrid mode from one of our offices in São Paulo (2 times/ week or 8 days/ month) or Porto Alegre (3 times/ week or 12 days/ month). Our WFN culture is designed to foster in-person innovation, collaboration, and connection with team members local and visiting from other global offices.

The Opportunity

Poatek/ WillowTree is hiring for empathetic, curious engineers to join our growing team. We work in a dynamic and fulfilling atmosphere and help our clients’ build robust mobile and web applications. Our Test Engineering technologies vary by project, so we value flexibility and willingness to learn. Our goal is to build amazing solutions for our clients, and ensuring a quality experience is a crucial part of how we deliver on that promise.

Responsibilities

• Confidently deliver high-quality test strategies and implementation, applying critical thinking to products, requirements, and processes.
• Definite test strategies according to each client and business needs.
• Create and write test plans, defining how tests will be structured and communicated.
• Work closely with clients
• Have solid professional test engineering experience— 7+ years
• Apply various types of testing methodologies and work collaboratively on implementation
• Help mentor and coach a project team towards shared goals and outcomes
• Navigate difficult conversations by providing constructive feedback to teams and clients
• Identify obstacles to ensure quality, improve our user experience and how we build tests
• Self-aware of limitations, yet curious to learn new solutions while being receptive to constructive feedback from teammates
• Guide team to understand and work through changing priorities by bringing positive energy 
• Communicate and simplify complex problems in order to foster understanding across multidisciplinary teams 
• Apply your knowledge and findings at an organizational scale

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience on testing methodologies and implementation
• Relevant communication of testing approach and decisions to clients and teammates
• Professional programming experience
• Experience architecting robust automated testing suites across different platforms
• Experience using Cypress.io, TestCafe, Selenium, native mobile test frameworks for iOS or Android.
• Advocate of SDLC processes
• Embody a growth mindset and are committed to continuously learning new technologies and honing your craft
• Experience recommending test solutions for a particular platform's problem
• Inspire others to write code that is durable, secure, scalable, always up and running
• Relevant experience establishing testing practices and mentoring/ managing more junior professionals
• Have strong debugging and troubleshooting skills
• Have worked with relational and/or NoSQL databases.

Why Poatek/ WillowTree?

In addition to being part of an international and innovative consultancy company, you will have:

• Flexible hours and autonomy;
• Work with cutting edge technologies;
• Partner with global and relevant brands in the market;
• Collaborative team and learning ecosystem;
• Career development plan & growth;
• Internacional travel opportunities (optional).

Some of our benefits:

• Health and dental plan;
• Life insurance;
• Monthly voucher for meals, culture, education, health and mobility;
• Child care assistance and more!