Company Overview
Glass Lewis is the world’s choice for governance solutions. We enable institutional investors and publicly-listed companies to make sustainable decisions based in research and data. We cover 30,000+ meetings each year, across approximately 100 global markets.
Our customers include the majority of the world’s largest pension plans, mutual funds, and asset managers, collectively managing over $40 trillion in assets. We have teams located across the United States, Europe, and Asia-Pacific giving us global reach with a local perspective on the important governance issues. Founded in 2003, Glass Lewis is headquartered in San Francisco, California with additional offices in Kansas City, Missouri; Paris, France; Limerick, Ireland; Karlsruhe, Germany; Sydney, Australia; Tokyo, Japan; and Manila, Philippines.
Position:
We are hiring a Software Quality Engineer (5 positions) to play a key role in the team driving our efforts in quality assurance. The right candidate is highly motivated, self-driven, eager to learn, and passionate about taking ownership of their contribution to the product. We are a highly professional, self-organising team working in a truly agile environment. Our culture is built on being open to new ideas and feedback and we believe in building great software, technical excellence and having fun.
Responsibilities:
- Key responsibility to ensure that all quality checks, risk assessment and processes and procedures have been followed by the teams in relation to all releases to production.
- Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities with our teams to ensure quality and test coverage.
- Collaborate in an agile environment, actively participating in agile ceremonies including Daily Stand-ups
- Assist teams in developing test plans and cases to ensure accuracy and completeness.
- Review user stories requirements, specifications and technical design documents when required
- Work with agile teams to identify integration points for new work
- Create and maintain dependency documentation for system wide regression
- Assist with execution of manual testing with a close eye to transition to automation testing.
Requirements
Above all we value communication, common sense and interpersonal skills. The ideal candidate will bring:
- Strong documentation and communication skills.
- Willingness to give and take feedback and share knowledge
- A strong desire to learn and improve.
- The ability to influence QA and testing best practices within your team
- Willingness to transition/learn to automated testing
From a technical perspective we would require a minimum of 5 years QA experience through the entire lifecycle of an enterprise application. Use of the following technologies and methodologies would be a distinct advantage:
- Proven work experience in software development
- Proven work experience in software quality assurance
- Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes
- Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases
- Hands-on experience with both white box and black box testing
- Hands-on experience with automated testing tools
- Good knowledge of SQL
- Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process
- Hands-on experience in API testing
Nice to have's
- Experience with automated testing tools ( Cypress and Playwright)
- Experience in Performance testing ( e.g: JMeter)
- Experience in scripting (JavaScript preferably)
- Experience with security testing is a plus
- BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
