QA Engineer - Remote

Are you known for your ability to execute with a high degree of expediency and accuracy? Are you a direct and analytical person adept at working independently? Want to help make the world a safer, more sustainable and more creative place? If so, Black Spectacles’ QA Engineer role may be the perfect opportunity for you to grow in your career!

At Black Spectacles, we’re a purpose driven company, aimed squarely at educating and inspiring architects across the world so they can thrive in their careers.

Our platform attracts architects around the world who want to push the limits of their industry. Our content — which includes podcasts, design tutorials and exam prep — helps architects keep pace with emerging technologies and software so they can do their best work.

Black Spectacles is Chicago-based with a fully remote staff. We are a Great Place to Work-Certified™ company and ranked #11 in Education on the INC. 5000 America’s Fastest Growing Company List in 2019. To keep that momentum going strong, we’re expanding our team of enthusiastic go-getters. We’re on the hunt for a QA Engineer to ensure quality standards by performing all testing activities on our products and platforms.

You will:

• Own the quality of our products as we plan, design, build, test, release and measure releases.
• Test all front and back end features/changes to our products, including analyzing features and stories to come up with test scenarios to ensure proper functionality.
• Provide 2nd level support for all customer reported issues, such as triage and analysis, and reporting them in our defect tracking software (JIRA).
• Ensure customer satisfaction is kept high as a result of minimal errors or issues with our products.

Requirements

You might be a great fit if:

• Demonstrated experience in QA (automation and manual) and software testing
• Strong experience analyzing requirements, creating test plans, writing test scenarios/test cases, and hands-on testing
• You have experience and interest in doing both automation and manual testing, with experience in at least one automation framework
• Experience working in an Agile environment, with hands-on experience releasing software with standard CICD toolset
• Experience using defect tracking tools like JIRA (or similar)
• Experience writing SQL queries and using data management processes that assist in testing features
• Strong multitasker capable of managing the details on multiple projects at one time

Nice to haves:

• Familiarity with EdTech software applications is nice to have (i.e. video content, exams, quizzes, etc.)
• Familiarity with software quality measurements
• Jenkins/AWS Codepipeline experience

(Even if you don’t check all of these boxes, we’d still love to hear from you!)

Benefits

• ‘Work from wherever’ policy
• Unlimited Vacation
• Blue Cross Blue Shield health, dental, vision, short-term / long-term disability and life insurance
• Flexible Savings Accounts and Health Savings Accounts
• 401k with Employer match
• Profit sharing program
• Employee referral program
• Commuter pre-tax program
• Frequent team events & quarterly social gatherings

Here at Black Spectacles, our most critical Core Value is ‘making it safe to share ideas’, and we know our best ideas will come from a diverse group of ideators. We are committed to reducing barriers to entry both in our industry and how we grow our team, and acknowledge an equitable hiring process is the key to doing so. Black Spectacles is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), gender identity, sexual orientation, physical disability, mental disability, intellectual disability, learning disability, age (40 and older), citizenship status, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military and veteran status, victims of domestic violence, status as being under an order of protection, lack of a permanent mailing address or using the mailing address of a shelter or social service provider, or any other characteristic protected by law.