Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Job Description
Klir is on a mission to make water better. Our customers are global leaders in water management. We are looking for a Software Quality Assurance Engineer that can help us build-in quality to every aspect of our platform.

In this role, you ensure the team achieves built-in code quality. You drive testing strategies and develop test cases that help us deliver a solid enterprise solution. You help build test automations so we can deliver a validated release with minimal delay. You advocate quality policies that guide the entire team.

Responsibilities

• Meeting with the software design team to discuss test-ability and verification methods.

• Identifying software application weaknesses and target areas.

• Sketching out ideas for automated software test procedures.

• Reviewing software bug reports and highlighting problem areas.Writing automation scripts and implementing software applications.

• Troubleshooting automation software and finalizing system procedures.

• Identifying quality issues and creating test reports.

• Collaborating with the development team to solve application faults.

• Planning test schedules or strategies in accordance with project scope or delivery dates.

• Creating and maintaining company documentation, such as quality manuals and quality procedures.

• Engaging all team members within Klir in quality improvements and testing.

Requirements
Essential:

• Minimum 3 years of experience in a Software QA role

• Expertise in principles and methods for software testing

• Test-driven development (TDD) practices

• Customer advocacy and customer focus

• Effective verbal and written communication

• Estimating work

• Test case authoring

• Test case execution

• Test result & root-cause analysis

• Experience in an early-stage start up or proven track record operating in earliest stages of a product.

• Work in GMT -4 timezone hours

Desirable:

• Requirements analysis

• Testing strategy

• Proficiency with automation tools like Selenium, Playright and Testproject.io

• Proficiency with test management tools like Azure DevOps or JIRA

• Experience navigating and understanding code, using software languages like C# and Javascript

• Experience writing SQL queries and working with database systems

Personal attributes:

• Active Listener

• Builds Relationships

• Scrum Values

• Follows Processes

• Time Management

• Meets Commitments

The ideal candidate:

• You thrive equally in strategy and execution. You are inventive and resourceful and can turn your ideas quickly into implementations. We move fast, but we are smart about it.

• You are entrepreneurial at heart, but methodical in your approach.

• You love to learn about your craft and your own personal development.

• You get a rush when you're super busy and getting a lot done. You get a super rush when your efforts land in a win.

• You would rather just try a new idea than spend days talking about it.

• You believe in collaboration and enjoy adding value and getting value by engaging with every department that touches the customer experience.

• You're probably your own toughest critic and have an internal drive to succeed and help others do the same. You never want to be the weak link, but the strongest.

• You are passionate about water and ensuring that the developed world has enough safe and secure water needed to sustain our species for generations to come.

Benefits

Why work at Klir?

Our Commitment to you:

• We remunerate you well with a competitive salary and benefits for your market. In order to operate at your best you can't be worrying about your quality of life at home.

• We commit that you have an opportunity to use your talents to leave a factual lasting legacy for our species for generations to come.

• By working with a Y-Combinator market leading company, we commit that you have an opportunity to challenge yourself to be the best you can be.

• We commit to give you the opportunity to work in a team that understands life is far too important to take seriously. Obviously, we are doing a crucial job but we have fun while doing it.

• We commit to giving you the opportunity to work with a group of people that value honesty and audaciousness, that stand up straight & stick together no matter what and aspire to be the difference between good and great.

• We commit to doing our best to make you successful. The leader's sense of purpose is to help you to be the best version of yourself. We achieve this with fearless feedback, focus on growth and transparency.

Water is arguably the most important resource in the world and yet the industry is notoriously slow at innovating and adopting new technologies that allow them to automate endless hours of non-productive admin work from skilled workers. The cost of water is rising as an aging workforce is unable to adapt and multi-million dollar infrastructure decisions are being made without the best data. Our mission is to make water better, and it starts with the professionals who make water accessible. So we developed Klir, the first cloud based SaaS ERP made specifically by water experts for water utilities. It's designed to reduce the cost of administration so the experts can dedicate their precious time to solving a critical problem for our species.

Founded in Dublin, Ireland in 2018 with offices in Canada and US, Klir is one of the fastest growing, profitable SaaS companies in the water industry and is venture backed by some of the highest profile and most reputable funds including Insight Partners, Bowery Capital & Spider Capital.