MotivAction (now Augeo)
QA Analyst
MotivAction (now Augeo), Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, 55199
About Us
Hello, we're Augeo-architects of enterprise engagement and loyalty platforms, delivering compelling experiences and fostering meaningful connections with employees, customers, members and channel partners across industries. We serve thousands of clients, including more than 70 of the top Fortune 500 companies, representing millions of end users. We are thought leaders and disruptors who think differently and creatively, built by entrepreneurs, operators and innovators.
At Augeo, we're passionate about providing an inclusive workplace that values diversity. Everyone is welcome, and our employees are comfortable bringing their authentic whole selves to work. Be you.
We work hard, we play hard-and most importantly, we care to our CORE about our teams and each other. We over-communicate around everything, especially while we are all connected virtually.
Summary
This role will play a pivotal part in ensuring the quality of Augeo’s SaaS workplace engagement platform. An Augeo QA Analyst is responsible for testing changes to the platform to minimize the number of defects that get into production and partnering with others to perform acceptance, regression, and smoke testing. You will be helping to write test cases and test fixtures, perform test runs, and guiding automation engineers on the correct way to automate regression and smoke tests. Additionally, you will be act as the gatekeeper for changes and a decision maker on what will be getting into our customers hands on each release. You will be required to work within our change and test management tools and collaborate with Augeo's application and data development teams as well as “the business”. The ideal candidate can learn and understand business needs to ensure that our technology meets what is truly required and can maintain a customer orientation when using functionality.
Who You Are
Innovator: Bring ideas to the table, work hard, tell your story, and build new tech
Collaborator: Contribute to the team and help accomplish amazing things
Curious: Keep learning, keep implementing, and iterate
High-level Job Requirements
Manage quality across all application tiers: back-end, business and front-end
Support existing applications by reproducing reported defects
Participate in design and code reviews and ensure adherence to best practices
Communicate continuously with business stakeholders, developers, and QA
Continually work to improve and evolve QA processes and techniques
Apply principles, processes and tools of quality management to work
Actively participate in an Agile team that focuses on delivering incremental results and constant improvement
Foster an innovative and inclusive team-oriented work environment.
Contribute to process improvement efforts at Augeo
Embrace Augeo's CORE values - Collaborative, Objective, Responsive and Earnest in all areas
Competencies
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including technical writing skills
Fundamental analytical, conceptional thinking and problem-solving abilities
Ability to participate in meetings communicating findings and plans to cross-functional team members, management, and clients
Forward thinking on ways to improve product related challenges with an eye toward delivering value to the end user
Organized, with the ability to work independently toward project driven deadlines, in person or remote
Experience prioritizing initiatives based on internal and client business needs
Desired Technical Skills
Orthogonal thinking to come up with methods to find defects – entering negative numbers and emojis when testing numeric user input, for example
Diverse skills including novice data querying skills such as SQL
JMeter and Selenium familiarity to support QA automation initiatives
Ability to handle multiple projects and a variety of roles within projects
Strong verbal and written skills
Familiarity with front-end technologies such as HTML and CSS or JavaScript, JQuery and AJAX
Education and Experience
Two-year or four-year college degree from a regionally accredited college or university preferred
Microsoft Office proficiency required
Experience with iterative test planning and execution
Experience with large scale performance testing and tools
Experience working in an Agile-based environment
Experience in a SOC 2 Type II certified environment
Experience working with JIRA and Confluence
Understanding of and discipline to follow rigorous IT data and systems policies
Ability to work on multiple assignments and achieve objectives and deadlines
Benefits
Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
Employer-sponsored Long-term disability and Life Insurance
Paid Time Off and flexible work schedule
401(k) Plan
Fun and casual work environment
Career growth opportunities
Rewards & Incentives
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Hello, we're Augeo-architects of enterprise engagement and loyalty platforms, delivering compelling experiences and fostering meaningful connections with employees, customers, members and channel partners across industries. We serve thousands of clients, including more than 70 of the top Fortune 500 companies, representing millions of end users. We are thought leaders and disruptors who think differently and creatively, built by entrepreneurs, operators and innovators.
At Augeo, we're passionate about providing an inclusive workplace that values diversity. Everyone is welcome, and our employees are comfortable bringing their authentic whole selves to work. Be you.
We work hard, we play hard-and most importantly, we care to our CORE about our teams and each other. We over-communicate around everything, especially while we are all connected virtually.
Summary
This role will play a pivotal part in ensuring the quality of Augeo’s SaaS workplace engagement platform. An Augeo QA Analyst is responsible for testing changes to the platform to minimize the number of defects that get into production and partnering with others to perform acceptance, regression, and smoke testing. You will be helping to write test cases and test fixtures, perform test runs, and guiding automation engineers on the correct way to automate regression and smoke tests. Additionally, you will be act as the gatekeeper for changes and a decision maker on what will be getting into our customers hands on each release. You will be required to work within our change and test management tools and collaborate with Augeo's application and data development teams as well as “the business”. The ideal candidate can learn and understand business needs to ensure that our technology meets what is truly required and can maintain a customer orientation when using functionality.
Who You Are
Innovator: Bring ideas to the table, work hard, tell your story, and build new tech
Collaborator: Contribute to the team and help accomplish amazing things
Curious: Keep learning, keep implementing, and iterate
High-level Job Requirements
Manage quality across all application tiers: back-end, business and front-end
Support existing applications by reproducing reported defects
Participate in design and code reviews and ensure adherence to best practices
Communicate continuously with business stakeholders, developers, and QA
Continually work to improve and evolve QA processes and techniques
Apply principles, processes and tools of quality management to work
Actively participate in an Agile team that focuses on delivering incremental results and constant improvement
Foster an innovative and inclusive team-oriented work environment.
Contribute to process improvement efforts at Augeo
Embrace Augeo's CORE values - Collaborative, Objective, Responsive and Earnest in all areas
Competencies
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including technical writing skills
Fundamental analytical, conceptional thinking and problem-solving abilities
Ability to participate in meetings communicating findings and plans to cross-functional team members, management, and clients
Forward thinking on ways to improve product related challenges with an eye toward delivering value to the end user
Organized, with the ability to work independently toward project driven deadlines, in person or remote
Experience prioritizing initiatives based on internal and client business needs
Desired Technical Skills
Orthogonal thinking to come up with methods to find defects – entering negative numbers and emojis when testing numeric user input, for example
Diverse skills including novice data querying skills such as SQL
JMeter and Selenium familiarity to support QA automation initiatives
Ability to handle multiple projects and a variety of roles within projects
Strong verbal and written skills
Familiarity with front-end technologies such as HTML and CSS or JavaScript, JQuery and AJAX
Education and Experience
Two-year or four-year college degree from a regionally accredited college or university preferred
Microsoft Office proficiency required
Experience with iterative test planning and execution
Experience with large scale performance testing and tools
Experience working in an Agile-based environment
Experience in a SOC 2 Type II certified environment
Experience working with JIRA and Confluence
Understanding of and discipline to follow rigorous IT data and systems policies
Ability to work on multiple assignments and achieve objectives and deadlines
Benefits
Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
Employer-sponsored Long-term disability and Life Insurance
Paid Time Off and flexible work schedule
401(k) Plan
Fun and casual work environment
Career growth opportunities
Rewards & Incentives
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