Quality Assurance Engineer

AppXite is a product software development company, based in Riga, Latvia. Our Platform empowers sellers, distributors, and vendors transforming into a subscription- and consumption-based businesses. We have years of experience in the SaaS and software markets and long-term working relationships with the largest vendors in the world (e.g. Microsoft, IBM, AWS, Google, Adobe, Cisco etc.). AppXite platform enables the software and cloud service businesses of household names like Atea, Lenovo, and Liquid. 

As a Quality Assurance Engineer, you will be part of a group of talented quality engineers and an integral part of an agile development team. In this role, you will be a functional tester whose goal is also to facilitate everyday work with business requirements in the development process. You will help to analyze the initial goals and needs of our product, meticulously evaluate product requirements, support the design process, ask tons of questions, facilitate communication between all interested parties, and eventually test the implemented features.

We envision each of our employees as stakeholders, so you will be responsible for driving the collaboration with other members of the engineering team to find the best methods for solving problems and securing the quality and usability of our product.

What you’ll do:

• Implement effective test strategies with effective test planning, test case designing, test execution.
• Work with Product Managers and developers in User Story creation.
• Bug/defect reporting, detailing, and investigation.
• Should be able to understand the software internals, debug problems using log files.
• Integration testing (cross-team project testing).
• Gather, investigate, and formalize the requirements.
• Communicating effectively with developers on the explanation of user stories and validating the end implementation of the requirements.
• Participates in acceptance testing or beta testing.
• Comes up with new strategies and initiatives.

• 4+ years of experience in web testing, Front and Backend testing.
• SQL knowledge (is a must). 
• Experience with browser dev tools, Postman.
• Experience in test documentation development (test plans, test cases, checklists, etc.).
• Understanding of SDLC.
• Experience in applying different types and techniques of testing, understanding of features and applications
• Ability to effectively communicate, resolve issues, search for alternatives, and provide recommendations.
• Ability to understand and test complex algorithms.
• Experience in business analysis.
• Good attention to detail.

Will be considered as a plus:

• Any certifications in software testing, security testing, performance testing, Azure would be highly beneficial.
• Knowledge of Azure DevOps, Test management, pipelines, wiki, etc.

Why join AppXite?

• We offer fully remote role, B2B contract or employment in Latvia office. Embrace flexibility with remote work options, allowing you to achieve a healthy work-life balance.
• Collaborate with industry giants like Microsoft, Lenovo, Atea, Adobe, AWS, Cisco, Google, IBM, and more, as we partner with some of the largest companies in the industry.
• Engage yourself in a diverse and international work environment, surrounded by skilled colleagues.
• Enhance your expertise through professional training programs. We provide Microsoft certification. Broaden your knowledge and stay up-to-date with the latest trends.
• Benefit from our employee referral program and enjoy rewarding opportunities by referring talented individuals to our team.