Senior Software Test Engineer

Introduction:

Are you searching for an opportunity to play a key role in driving the dramatic growth of a highly successful software company

At Poppulo, we're working on what's next in communications and workplace technology. As a pioneer in this industry, we understand that meaningfully reaching every employee is hard. And so is managing office space in a hybrid world. And so is improving the customer and guest experience. We exist to make each of these things easier. We exist to bring harmony to our customers.

And we do that at enterprise scale. Our omnichannel employee communications, customer communications, and workplace experience platform is trusted by over 6,000 organizations today, reaching more than 35M employees and delivering content to 500,000+ digital signs.

We know there's no such thing as a perfect candidate - we're all a work in progress and are growing new skills and capabilities all the time. We encourage you to apply for a position with Poppulo even if you don't meet 100% of the requirements. We believe in fostering an environment where there is a diversity of perspectives, in hopes that we can all thrive.

The Opportunity

You'll work in a collaborative, cross-functional agile team building our next-generation backend platform using modern technologies. We write high-quality, secure, and scalable code to deliver products that meet our clients current and future needs. The role involves manual and automated testing across front-end and back-end services, with a strong focus on quality.

You're a team-oriented tester with strong critical-thinking skills who cares about customer outcomes, builds quality into the development process, and continuously looks to improve.

Key Responsibilities:

• Working closely with Development, Test, Product, UX, and others to ensure quality features are delivered to customers.
• Establishing and managing an effective whole team test approach whereby the whole team understands and participates in testing.
• Working with the team to ensure that quality is considered from the earliest stages of projects.
• Coaching the team to develop their testing skills and overall quality approach and drive continuous quality culture improvements in the team.
• Ensure the team are implementing Automation at the appropriate test levels.
• Ensure the team considers all relevant quality characteristics such as Security, Scalability, and Observability.
• Facilitate quality-focused team sessions such as risk workshops and bug bashes.
• Understands the platform and how customers use it.

Candidate Expertise Required:

• 7+ years experience in a Software testing/Quality role working with web technologies/SaaS.
• Proficient testing in an Agile environment.
• Experience in establishing and managing an effective whole team test approach(optional)
• Experienced in testing complex systems and comfortable with technical conversations.
• Proficiency in at least one language (e.g. python, ruby, java).
• Preferably experienced with test automation at both the UI and API. Experience creating automation frameworks is advantageous.

Nice to Have

• Effective communication (written and oral) and teamwork behaviour within a diverse team environment.
• Building good working relationships with team members and other teams.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Experience in applying different techniques, tools and approaches based on context.
• Proficient in Exploratory Testing.
• History of continually learning and adapting to the latest trends and technology.
• Test community involvement e.g. attending conferences/meetups, blogging, contributing to opensource projects, etc.
• Experience testing in the cloud (AWS)
• Non-functional Specialities such as performance testing
• Comfortable with Linux commands and database queries.
• Experience as a Quality Coach would be of benefit for this role

Who We Are

We are a values-driven organization that encourages our employees to bring their authentic selves to work every day and empowers everyone to make a tangible impact on our products, clients, and culture. We offer a dynamic environment with driven, fun, and flexible individuals who thrive on challenge and responsibility. This is an opportunity to contribute to our culture and join a company that's on the move.

We live the Poppulo values each day, as they are key to everything we do.

• Bring Your Best Self We show up authentically, are self-aware and always strive to be better.
• See it. Own it. Solve it. We proactively innovate and solve for our customers and each other. We set an example with high standards for our work. We foster a culture of learning, acknowledging our successes and our failures.
• Together We're Better We value and celebrate our diversity. We learn from others, respecting their expertise, and focus on building trust. That's what makes us a team.

Named a Great Place to Work in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021, we are a fast-growing global technology company, with offices in Ireland, the US, and the UK.

Poppulo is an equal opportunity employer.

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