Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer (QA), Latin America

** This is an opportunity to join a team of top-notch Quality Assurance Engineers at a US-based company working closely together on interesting projects for our clients. Everyone in the company works from home or a shared workspace. Applicants must reside in Latin America.**
Emergent Software is looking for a Software QA Engineer who is smart, passionate, and efficient. A qualified candidate is experienced applying quality assurance concepts and leading quality control efforts utilizing manual testing on complex, data-driven, web-based software applications and websites. This position is for self-starters with good communication skills, work ethic, and the ability to participate in all aspects of the agile software development life cycle. This position is for individuals with full professional proficiency in English, good communication skills, work ethic, and the ability to participate in all aspects of the agile software development life cycle.

Highlights & Benefits of working at Emergent Software

• All workers are first class team members. Other than working from Latin America, your experience working at Emergent will be the mostly the same as employees in the US. This includes a paid-for trip to our yearly in-person event.

• Work from home or a shared workspace.

• Work on projects with people from the US and Latin America speaking English 100% of the time.

• Work closely with other talented engineers and team members. Our vetting process means you can count on your team members to know what they are talking about.

• Flexible work schedule meaning you can work regular hours or choose weekends and evenings.

• Work-life balance is essential and highly valued at Emergent Software. If you choose to work more than 40 hours, you’ll be compensated for the extra work!

• Work on interesting projects solving complex business problems with custom software.

• 100 hours per year to focus on your professional development. We invest in your growth!

• Excellent benefits package tailored to your country.

Software QA Engineer Primary Duties

• Work with the agile team to plan test cases for User Stories and Features.

• Interpret and refine acceptance criteria, ensuring it matches overall project requirements.

• Perform manual testing against acceptance criterion throughout the life of software projects.

• Document and interpret results of testing, creating bugs and documenting future remediation work.

• Report and track issues accurately and effectively.

• Evaluate mid-project changes for testing impact.

• Help us improve our QA processes making them more robust and efficient.

• Work directly with clients to coordinate their User-Acceptance Testing (UAT).

• Coordinate automation activities around regression testing and scheduled testing for clients, as applicable.

• Other related duties as assigned by your manager.

Software QA Engineer Qualifications

• Experience on an agile development team in the role of a Quality Engineer performing manual testing

• Experience writing comprehensive test plans and test cases

• A firm grasp on how websites, web applications, APIs, databases, mobile apps, windows apps, and the cloud function at a high level

• Ability to thrive on a small team in a fast-paced environment while juggling a variety of projects and wearing multiple hats

• Exemplary attention to detail with the ability to work with teammates to determine pragmatic solutions to quality issues

• Strong technical writing, verbal communication, and presentation skills are a must

Nice to Have Experience

• Azure DevOps, Jira, and/or other agile work organization tools

• Experience test-planning for large projects

• Previous consulting experience either independent consulting or with a firm

• Microsoft stack technologies such as C#, .NET, SQL Server, Azure

• Content management systems (e.g. Sitecore, Umbraco, Contentful)

• Software development experience

Our Interview Process

At Emergent Software, we work hard to find the best Quality Assurance Engineers capable of helping to deliver high quality software for our clients. If you think you’re one of those, please understand that the effort put into this by people like yourself helps us be successful in surrounding you with other top-notch engineers. Here are the steps of our vetting process for this position:

1. Application (5 minutes)

2. Online Assessment (30-40 minutes)

3. Website Testing Challenge (60 minutes)

4. Initial Phone Interview (30-45 minutes)

5. Technical Knowledge Interview (30-60 minutes)

6. Final Interview (60-90 minutes)

7. Job Offer!

About Emergent Software

Emergent Software is a fast-growing software development, cloud consulting, and data engineering company serving clients across the United States. We are regularly adding to our team of talented software engineers, cloud architects, data engineers, UX designers, technical product owners and more who can help us deliver high quality services for our clients.

We are a remote-first company
Since our inception, we've embraced a remote-friendly culture, promoting work flexibility beyond the norm. When the pandemic struck in 2020, our transition to fully remote work was seamless—just a matter of cleaning out the fridge. Recognizing an opportunity, we adopted a remote-first approach and began hiring talent from anywhere. We continue to offer our signature Minnesota-nice, Midwest-friendly attitude, ensuring everyone feels valued, whether or not they're familiar with the skyway system.

Your career grows with us
Working with talented engineers on interesting projects creates an engaging environment for software development enthusiasts. By working directly with our experienced team, participating in our staff development program, and solving complex problems across a variety of projects, you’ll find numerous opportunities for long-term career growth.

At Emergent Software, your ideas will be heard, you will grow exponentially as a master of your craft, and you will enjoy working other dedicated team members to deliver software solutions for our clients.

Check out what others say
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