Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Cobalt was founded on the belief that pentesting can be better. Our pentests start in as little as 24 hours and integrate with modern development cycles thanks to the powerful combination of a SaaS platform coupled with an exclusive community of testers known as the Cobalt Core. Accepting just 5% of applicants, the Core boasts over 400 closely vetted and highly skilled testers who jointly conduct thousands of tests each year. 

Our award-winning, fully remote team is committed to helping agile businesses remediate risk quickly and innovate securely. Today, over 1,000 customers use Cobalt to run pentests on demand via Pentest as a Service, AKA PtaaS, a space which Cobalt pioneered (you could even say we wrote the book on it) and continues to lead. 

Today, Cobalt helps secure leading companies by connecting them with on-demand pentesting experts. The application brings both sides together to identify, triage, and fix vulnerabilities. Seven years and 20K penetration tests later, our technology has been battle-tested by thousands of users.

We are currently seeking a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to join our team. Are you a curious person who is always trying to figure out how things work, breaking things to make those things work better? Do you fixate on problems until you get them solved? Are you satisfied when you can automate yourself out of a process? Do you have a passion for software engineering, test automation, and integrated testing at scale? Come join a strong QA team building with cutting-edge automated solutions for real-world problems. You will have an opportunity to make a huge impact in the success of the testing programs for our clients.

• Build and maintain a robust test-automation framework in Cypress.io or similar testing automation frameworks that follows best practices for end-to-end testing
• Investigate test failures, integrate tests with CI/CD pipeline to ensure we have a reliable and high-quality deploys
• Create and maintain automated end-to-end tests and ensure the tests are stable, flake-free, and fast
• Introduce good practices in automation and include them in the pipeline
• Set up test environments for new projects
• Improve Quality Assurance flow by implementing your own ideas
• Teach colleagues how to automate tests in a given framework

• 3+ years of testing experience with good knowledge in the development with microservices
• Experience with automated testing (preferably Cypress and JavaScript / TypeScript)
• An inclination to share your time between writing tests and mentoring colleagues on automation
• A personable attitude, you like to help and guide people
• Have a good understanding and knowledge of the CI/CD concept and practice
• The desire to have an impact and propose solutions in an agile development environment as part of a cross-functional Team

• Test automation experience using JavaScript or TypeScript
• Experience working with CircleCI, Postman, JMeter, JIRA, AIO
• Experience of using cross-browser testing services
• ISTQB Foundation Level Certificate

• Grow in a passionate, rapidly expanding industry operating at the forefront of the Pentesting industry 
• Work directly with experienced senior leaders with ongoing mentorship opportunities
• Earn competitive compensation and an attractive equity plan
• Save for the future with a 401(k) program (US) or pension (EU) 
• Benefit from medical, dental, vision and life insurance (US) or statutory healthcare (EU)
• Leverage stipends for:
  • Wellness
  • Work-from-home equipment & wifi
  • Learning & development
  • Unlimited books 
• Treat yourself to paid remote lunches
• Make the most of our flexible, generous paid time off, and 16-weeks of paid parental leave 
• Work remotely from anywhere in the US, the UK, or Germany
• Explore the world with our travel bonus payouts at your 2, 3, and 5 year anniversary