Remote Quality Engineer - (container shipping startup) - remote

The role

Portchain is seeking a talented Quality Engineer to join our team. You will take part in the product life cycle, from idea to delivery, and oversee all aspects of quality and testing. This includes establishing metrics, applying industry best practices, and developing new tools and processes to ensure quality goals are met. You will work with the engineering and analytics team to suggest changes and promote best practices. Portchain is an exciting fast-growth company where you will work with an incredible team on applications with a truly global impact.

Tasks and Responsibilities

• Ensure that features pushed to our end users have been thoroughly vetted and meet our high quality standards
• Oversee all aspects of quality assurance to ensure quality goals are met
• Work with the software development and analytics teams to promote best practices
• Communicate recommendations and advice in order to continuously improve the quality of our products
• Develop and execute test cases, scripts, plans and procedures (manual and automated)

Role Requirements

• Ability to quickly gain a deep understanding of software requirements.
• Demonstrated excellent capacity to proactively communicate with stakeholders
• Proficiency in using automated testing technologies (UI tests, scripting integration tests, etc.)
• A track record of proactively managing and improving the QA process
• Comfortable with rapid changes common in early-stage product development
• Energized by problem solving and ability to think out of the box

Bonus skills

• Experience in helping build mission-critical B2B products, enabling business capability and objectives through technology
• Experience working with remote software teams
• Some knowledge of Software Development