Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

About the position

Ditto aims to expand the internet beyond traditional reach. Our groundbreaking software empowers devices to synchronize data in real-time, using cutting-edge, peer-to-peer database technology that runs on mobile, web, IoT, and server systems, automatically syncing data changes.

Your role is to ensure Ditto ships quality software. You will be one of the founding members of the Quality Engineering team and will help to define and instill quality processes, tools, and ownership across the organization. You will be responsible for ensuring the quality and reliability of our data synchronization products, collaborating closely with developers, product managers, and other stakeholders. Through your design and implementation of robust testing strategies and driving automation you will help shape our QA processes to ensure our solutions deliver the highest standard of performance and usability.

As the Senior Quality Assurance Engineer you will:

• Develop, implement, and maintain comprehensive test plans, test cases, and test scripts for functional, regression, and performance testing.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to define testing strategies and acceptance criteria, and provide feedback throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Continuously improve and evolve the QA process, tools, and methodologies to enhance overall product quality and team productivity.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging trends in QA, testing tools, and methodologies to bring innovative solutions to Ditto’s testing practices.
• Collaborate with the engineering teams to define and implement testing mechanisms into our software development process.
• Mentor team members on QA best practices.

What you’ll need:

• Strong passion for quality and to be a vocal proponent for it in every phase of the SDLC.
• Expertise with software testing on mobile, web, or desktop applications.
• Expertise with testing automation using any scripting language: Ruby, Python, Shell, etc.
• Expertise running demo apps on mobile, desktop, web browsers, and Unix platforms.
• Experience working in a remote environment with cross-functional teams.
• Experience working with GitHub.

Nice to Haves:

• Software development experience in any programming language: Swift, Objective-C, Java, Kotlin, Python, Ruby, C#, etc.
• Expertise in writing unit and UI tests.
• Experience in designing and implementing API testing frameworks and strategies. (Postman, SoapUI, RestAssured or similar)
• Experience with automated testing tools or equivalent automation skills. (JMeter, LambdaTest, Perfecto, or similar)