{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"bc6594caf41012e29459cae6","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/bc6594caf41012e29459cae6","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/bc6594caf41012e29459cae6","title":"Software QA Engineer - Recent Grad","description":"SchooLinks is a fast-moving startup and a leader in education technology. Our mission is to leverage technology to make access to opportunities ubiquitous. As a product and engineering team, we accomplish this mission by delivering a best-in-class product that delights students, parents, and the staff that supports them. We ship a lot of code and new features in fast iterations and thus we're looking for a self starter who can learn the software testing craft quickly and then own quality for their respective team.\nWe are looking for a recent college or boot camp grad (\"recent\" = previous 12 months) to join our team and learn the challenging and rewarding career of software testing. Although we are a remote company, our requirement for this role is someone who is based in the Austin, TX area and has the flexibility to come to our downtown office at least 3 times per week.\nIf you're interested in starting your career in technology, SchooLinks is a great place to be. There are plenty of opportunities to learn, expand your career, and grow into different areas outside of QA such as software development, design, and product management.\nWe presently do not have the ability to sponsor H1-B Visas.\nThis role will need to work standard US hours, and will need to come into the office in downtown Austin, TX at least 3 days er week.\nYour role:\nYou'll be the QA Engineer on a team whose main goal is to deliver an exciting product that our customers love\nYou will be responsible for ensuring that the product we deliver is of the highest quality\nPlanning, documenting, and executing test procedures for new features, bug fixes, and improvements\nThis will be mainly manual testing, but could expand to automated testing as well\nDocumenting clear and concise bug write ups so developers understand them the first time\nRoot cause analysis and investigation of bugs\nIdentifying and championing process improvements that will help us increase quality and speed\nRequirements\nRecent college degree or completion of a coding boot camp or other similar program completion\nAbility to quickly learn, understand, and document complex business logic - your challenge will be to learn new concepts and application features from our planning meetings and documentation and then apply them to your testing process\nExcellent communication skills; written and verbal\nSolid organizational skills and time management skills\nAn eye for design details and polish (the quality of our site is key to our business identity)\nNice to haves\nPrior software testing experience (but we really are looking for a recent grad for this role)\nAutomated testing experience\nPlaywright\nPostman\nLocust\nCoding or scripting experience\nPython\nJavaScript\nTypeScript\nDjango ORM\nExperience with:\nChrome dev tools\nREST APIs\nSQL databases\nJira, GitHub, Sentry\nInterview/Hiring Process\nSelected candidates will be asked to submit a one way video interview through our hiring portal. 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