Habemco is a shared services company wholly owned and operated by the Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake, a federally recognized Native American tribe located in Northern California. Habemco’s support services such as product development and technology which are needed for business growth, ultimately power the Tribe’s economy, and enable the delivery of education, health care and elder support programs for the Tribal community. Our talented team provides cross-functional support services to various tribal business and government entities. The Habemco team plays a critical role in ensuring a successful future for our customers, our employees, and the Tribe.
Headquartered in a beautiful, yet remote part of California, the Tribe recognizes that to compete in highly competitive industries such as FinTech, the Tribe must access expertise throughout the nation. In addition to employees that work remotely, the Tribe has employees located at its headquarters in Upper Lake, California and at a campus in Lenexa, Kansas.
Employees receive competitive pay and benefits, quarterly performance bonuses and 401(k) with a 4% match. Our team is creative, forward-thinking, passionate and moves fast! Are you ready to grow with us?
Purpose of the Position
As a part of the Product team the QA will work within the Scrum teams and be a part of their sprints. This person will be doing manual testing while helping to build the automation framework and execute regression testing. Incumbent performs work that is generally independent and collaborative in nature and contributes to moderately complex aspects of a project.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborative worker with a proven track record of partnering with cross-functional teams to solve short- and long-term customer experience challenges.
- Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities for quality management.
- Review requirements, specifications, and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback.
- Create detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases.
- Design, develop and execute automation scripts using open-source tools.
- Identify, record, document thoroughly and track bugs.
- Perform thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved.
- Liaise with internal teams (e.g., developers and product managers) to identify system requirements.
- Investigate product quality to make improvements to achieve better customer satisfaction.
- Regular, reliable attendance during normal business hours.
- In-person attendance and travel as requested.
- Other duties as assigned.
Education and Experience
Required:
- Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited University with major in Computer Science or other Engineering discipline or, in lieu of education, 4 or more years of work experience performing Quality Assurance Engineer activities. PLUS:
- 4+ years’ experience in Quality Assurance and Testing.
- 3+ years’ experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment.
- 3+ years’ experience with Selenium Runner.
- Applicants for this position must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with Habemco (e.g., H1-B visa, F-1 visa (STEM/OPT), TN visa.)
- All offers are contingent upon signing a confidentiality agreement and satisfactory completion of drug screening and background checks. Employer observes federal standards for controlled substances.
Preferred:
- Master’s degree from an accredited University with major in Computer Science or other Engineering discipline.
- Experience with front-end automated testing in Selenium WebDriver or an equivalent.
- Experience with application life cycle management tools such as JIRA, Version1, and other similar tools.
Skills and Abilities
- Advanced problem-solving skills and the ability to optimize data for the best possible outcome.
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple milestones and projects efficiently.
- A willingness to dig deep, learn from others, share your own skills, and be part of a talented and dedicated team.
- Superior attention to detail.
- Highly adaptable, a driver of change, and capable of quickly rallying teams.
- Effectively prioritizes and executes tasks in a highly productive yet autonomous environment.
- Strong decision making and problem-solving skills (i.e., design, debugging, and testing) and experience with software development projects.
- Ability to present technical ideas in concise, user-friendly, or layman’s language.
- Strong interpersonal skills used in developing effective working relationships and listening skills.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, time sensitive, and confidential environment.
- Excellent communication skills; can communicate effectively both orally and in writing with professionalism, excellent grammar, respect, and courteousness.
- Possess a balance of assertiveness and diplomacy along with adaptability to communicate on all levels.
Physical Requirements
- Prolonged periods in a stationary seated position, such as working on a computer.
- Must be able to travel to offsite assignments.
- Ability to differentiate wire and cable colors as well as various audible tones.