Who is Flock?

Flock Safety is an all-in-one technology solution to eliminate crime and keep communities safe. Our intelligent platform combines the power of communities at scale - including cities, businesses, schools, and law enforcement agencies - to shape a safer future together. Our full-service, maintenance-free technology solution is trusted by communities across the country to help solve and deter crime in the pursuit of safer communities for everyone.

Our holistic public safety platform is comprehensive and intelligent, providing the actionable evidence needed to solve, deter and reduce crime across neighborhoods, schools, businesses and entire cities. Without compromising transparency or privacy, we are turning unbiased data into objective answers.

Flock strives to offer a career-defining experience where you can also make an impact on your community. While safety is a serious business, we are a supportive team that is optimizing the remote experience to create strong and fulfilling relationships even when we are physically apart. Our group of hard-working employees thrive in a positive and inclusive environment, where a bias towards action is rewarded. 

We have raised over $500M in venture capital from investors including Tiger Global, Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, and Initialized Capital. Now surpassing a $5.5B valuation, Flock is scaling intentionally and seeking the best and brightest to help us meet our goal of reducing crime in the United States by 25% in the next three years.

The Opportunity

In this role, you will be responsible for building and executing test cases to ensure the functionality, performance, and usability of our core apps on Flock Safety devices. You will work as part of the Quality & Automation organization and be tasked with helping to build a highly scalable and stable test framework for manual testing of Flock Safety products. 

How you'll make an impact: 

• Assist in building and executing test cases to ensure functionality, performance, and usability of Flock Safety devices 

• Work as part of the QA organization to evaluate process and make recommendations for improvements in QA workflows

• Assist in writing test cases to ensure high quality release delivery.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure that issues/defects are resolved in a timely and efficient manner.

• Identify, report, and track defects to resolution using Jira, Confluence, and/or Testrail.

• Participate in articulation of Acceptance Criteria for features being delivered per release.

• Conduct ad-hoc testing as necessary.

• Conduct regression testing and verify bug fixes by QA or Dev.

• Continuously improve testing processes and strategies to ensure high quality application delivery. 

The Skillset

• Have 2+ years of professional experience in software testing, preferably with Android OS, Apps, and devices.

• Able to work in our Atlanta HQ on a hybrid remote schedule (3 days onsite, 2 remote.)

• Holds strong knowledge of common black box software testing methodologies, tools, and processes

• Have experience in testing hardware devices (both production and prototype).

• Holds knowledge of Android Development tools such as Android Studios, and adb.

• Have the ability to identify root causes for defects and provide meaningful feedback to development teams

• Holds strong communication and interpersonal skills. Both verbal and written.

• Have experience with common QA tools such as Testrail, Jira and confluence. 

Bonuses:

• ISTQB Foundation Level Certification

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related fields

• Experience with test automation frameworks with Android devices 

90 Days at Flock

We believe in outcome-driven results and focus on what you achieve within your first 90 days and beyond:

First 30 Days

• Familiarize yourself with Flock’s product architecture, engineering workflows, and quality processes.

• Understand key challenges in device and software testing.

First 60 Days

• Expand the number of products you are familiar with and able to test

• Begin contributing to test plans and quality process development.

90 Days & Beyond

• Use what you have learned to start challenging how we test today and show us where we can do better.

• Point out candidates for automation, use your knowledge of the system to start identifying gaps in the current test plans.

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