Associate Software Quality Engineer, Newspapers.com - Test Automation

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Ancestry is looking for a motivated Associate Software Quality Engineer to help maintain high-quality releases by the Newspapers.com development team. Reporting to our Software Development manager, you will steer the development team toward better test strategies, and help them to maintain deterministic test automation. You will prepare test plans and cases, and write automation towards the completion of those cases. Some ad-hoc, manual testing will be required based on the risk of the release. You have a passion for software testing, quality and a great customer experience. You may mentor, coach, and work directly with the Newspapers.com development team to promote adoption of testing best practices and tools. You may lead efforts with third-party testers on their development teams.

What you will do...

• Plan, scope, schedule and implement testing activities for projects of varying size and complexity.

• Continue to improve automation coverage & reduce regression cycles

• Implement and enforce continuous testing quality gates in CI/CD pipelines.

• Work with team members to clarify requirements, ensure testability and automatability and provide feedback on functional and technical design

• Analyze the potential impact of the requirement changes, assess risk and be a vocal champion for quality in every phase of the development process

• Create/Evaluate test tools to improve the test process, test coverage, and overall quality

• Manage bug flow, own bug triage and promote fixing and validation of bugs.

• Communicate status, metrics, and trending of quality.

Who you are...

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent required

• 1+ years software testing experience managing automated user interface tests

• Fluency in test automation using tools and frameworks that automate the user interface

• Verifiable working knowledge of HTTP protocol (methods, headers, MIME types), REST, JSON, XML

• Solid understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and modern web development frameworks (i.e. React, NextJS, etc.)

• Experience in manual testing approaches to supplement automation, especially for edge cases or new features.

• Experience with continuous testing practices in a CI/CD development pipeline, and deploying test automation in the dev pipeline

• Experience using performance testing processes

• Working knowledge of AWS, Docker, Jenkins, continuous delivery, Git

• Experience with Cypress, Jest, and Mocha

Helping people discover their story is at the heart of ours.  Ancestry is the largest provider of family history and personal DNA testing, harnessing a powerful combination of information, science and technology to help people discover their family history and stories that were never possible before. Ancestry’s suite of products includes: AncestryDNA, AncestryProGenealogists, Fold3, Newspapers.com, Find a Grave, Arch