by Ronald Barron | Nov 5, 2021 | Uncategorized
Employer: Archipelago Analytics
We are looking for an experienced Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to help us build and maintain a test automation framework to improve the confidence in our deployments. We’re a small (<20) engineering team distributed around the US & Europe, with an office in San Francisco. We iterate quickly, ship every day, build for the long term, and are looking for smart, independent engineers who want to ply their trade with like-minded people.
Responsibilities
- Build, deploy and maintain an automated test infrastructure for the Archipelago application that will be used to validate all aspects of the product operation.
- Evaluate product functionality and create test strategies, automation frameworks and automated test cases to assess product health.
- Integrate with CI/CD pipeline to establish a continuous build and test cycle.
- Establish processes and tool set to maintain automation scripts and generate regular test reports.
- Diagnose issues, report defects, and propose regression tests to catch recurring bugs.
- Partner with product and engineering teams to define requirements and ensure testability
Experience and Qualifications
- 5+ years of software development experience with a focus in testing and automation.
- Experience writing test plans, creating QA processes, and being a thought leader in quality.
- Deep familiarity with automation frameworks such as Cypress or Selenium
- Solid knowledge of Javascript, and React.
- Experience with performance and/or security testing is a plus.
- Work independently as part of a distributed team.
Desired but not Required
- Experience building applications for the insurance industry.
- Experience with Go, Python, and Postgres.
- Containerization experience targeting Docker and Kubernetes.
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by Ronald Barron | Nov 5, 2021 | Uncategorized
Employer: KinderCare
The Job:
- Providing leadership within a talented team of software engineers in an Agile environment to utilize cutting edge technologies including ASP.NET Core, Kendo controls, Entity Framework, API Layer, oData, and REST to design and transformation our mission-critical applications crucial to several rapidly growing lines of business.
- Responsible for the organization and tracking of work for multiple developers on large, complex projects.
- Championing best-practices within the development team.
- Optimizing solutions for support, usability, and flexibility.
- Collaborating with on architectural design across Enterprise technologies and teams
- Leading support and triage activities, including rotational on-call duties.
Qualifications
Who you are:
- You are a skilled software engineer, who has demonstratable experience designing, building, and supporting ASP.NET enterprise applications and APIs to support several critical lines of business.
- You are a leader who strives to empower others with a proven ability to influence those around you.
- You have a strong Lean/Agile mindset and substantial experience on Agile teams.
- You can effectively set and manage expectations at all levels of the organization.
- You have a passion for learning, designing, and implementing new technology and a keen eye for optimization of business process.
- You are a highly engaged and collaborative team member with exceptional communication skills, able to bring the team along with you.
- You are an innovator, skilled at using cutting-edge technologies to solve complex business problems.
- You can present complex technical ideas clearly and to non-technical audiences, tying their value back to business benefits including at an executive level.
Example Hands-On Technical Experience:
.Net/C# coding experience using Visual Studio (or equivalent), Object-oriented programming (OOP), SQL Server /TSQL and Stored Procedures, Software design principles – OOD, TDD, and GoF Patterns, RESTful web services, .Net 2.0, 4.0, 4.5, and .NET Core frameworks, AngularJS or other JS frameworks, CSS 3.0, HTML 5.0 and jQuery, Automated Unit Test and Integration Testing using nUnit and mocking (or equivalent), Azure or AWS Cloud, OWASP top 10.
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by Ronald Barron | Nov 5, 2021 | Uncategorized
Employer: KinderCare
The IT team at KinderCare creates digital experiences that help working parents stay informed on their child’s early education and so much more. Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, KinderCare operates more than 1,500 early learning centers and employs more than 32,000 team members. In 2021, KinderCare earned its fifth Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award – one of only four companies worldwide to win this award for five consecutive years. Our devoted family of education providers leads the nation in accreditation and includes KinderCare® Learning Centers, KinderCare Education at Work®, Champions® Before- and After-School Programs. We keep this team online and help parents be where their kids are, even from the office.
Job Summary:
- KinderCare is looking for a Senior QA and Experience Engineer to join our team in support of our flagship .NET product. We have a small but experienced team focusing on the efforts of 6 developers in an Agile environment and need an additional team member to ensure our releases are timely and well-covered. You can expect your normal day to include Agile ceremonies, occasional team meetings, lots of video call collaboration, easy-going group, and plenty of time to get to what you do best.
- As a Senior QA Engineer, you will be working on a rebuild and technology refresh, and we need experienced, very technical QA hands to help guide best practices and latest techniques. We are experimenting with BDD, Selenium automation, and we use Atlassian tools as our base set. You’ll be walking into a stable and friendly but busy team that could really use your technical expertise and methodical approach to add more technical structure to our testing. Your experience with continuous delivery and automation, and the role of the QA team in that process will help us transition to a digital delivery team as we continue to evolve.
What You’ll Do:
- Plan/Develop/Improve existing tests to support both UI and API testing
- Ability to effectively assess, analyze, and communicate risk
- Strong critical thinking skills
- Ability to estimate sprint velocity reliably
- Creation, review and execution of Test Plans, Test Cases
- Working closely with QA Lead and Automation to identify gaps and opportunities with current test activities
- Maintaining solid root cause analysis skills
- Communication and cooperation with Developers on test executions, results analysis
Qualifications
Who You Are:
- 7+ years experience working in quality engineering role in a Windows environment
- Working knowledge of test automation methodologies and release management principles.
- Experience working in an Agile environment
- Familiarity with basic SQL queries, SSMS,IIS and web service testing methodology, SDLC, quality standards, best practices, test automation tools and frameworks
- Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills with both technical and non-technical team members
- Desire and discipline for self-education in QA/QE field
Bonus skills and experience:
- Experience working with JIRA and Zephyr for Jira
- Ability to maintain existing test automation and contribute to building new test automation
- Scripting and automation experience with tools such as PowerShell
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by Ronald Barron | Nov 4, 2021 | Uncategorized
Employer: Elastic
What You Will Be Doing:
- Produce design prototypes and specifications for our corporate website.
- Follow and contribute to a design system for building web experiences.
- Work closely with development teams to ensure that design specifications are implemented accurately.
- Practice the balance between UX and beautiful UI / visual design
- Support internal partners (engineers and product marketing) through clear guidelines, assets and creative problem solving
- Understand and implement user testing and UX research to create data-driven solutions
What You Bring Along:
- Ability to create elegant and usable experiences that solve business challenges and meet user needs.
- Strong portfolio with examples of user-focused problems solved via creative UI solutions, design systems and asset creation.
- Familiarity with the typical product design suite: Figma, Whimsical
- Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to communicate effectively in small and large groups and defend your design decisions.
- Prior experience working in the technology industry. You enjoy learning about new technologies and are able to collaborate with Product Marketers as well as Product Managers and Engineers.
- Is effective at personal organization and management of communication tools like email and Slack.
- Stay current with the latest design and technology trends across web, desktop, and mobile platforms, and adopt modern techniques as appropriate.
- Ability to uphold responsiveness and collaboration in a remote environment. You are an organized self starter with strong communication skills. Being part of a distributed team requires proactive communication and sometimes even oversharing.
- Experience with front-end development (HTML/CSS/Javascript) and working with engineering teams.
Bonus Points:
- Experience with tools like Github and AirtableInterest in growing UX research skills, advanced prototyping and building design system
- Experience working on React based web applications
- Experience working on a large scale, high traffic web properties
Additional Information – We Take Care of Our People
As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.
We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.
- Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
- Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
- Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
- Generous number of vacation days each year
- Double your charitable giving – We match up to $1500 (or local currency equivalent)
- Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
- Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
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by Ronald Barron | Nov 4, 2021 | Uncategorized
Employer: RealSelf
About the Role:
*This fully remote role is open to candidates in most U.S. states. Working remotely from a primary residence outside the United States is currently not permitted for this role.
We’re seeking a fully remote Senior UX Designer. As Senior UX Designer, you will be responsible for designing and delivering product experiences from early-stage concepts through final design. Our team has a unique opportunity to help modernize RealSelf’s product experience in the consumer healthcare space. This role requires a high degree of collaboration directly with product managers, with an emphasis on rapid prototyping and iterative design methodologies. This full-time position is fully remote and reports to the Head of User Experience & Design. The Senior UX Designer who joins our team should be passionate about the beauty/aesthetics category and be excited about a systematic approach to holistic design thinking.
In this role, you will:
- Actively collaborate with your Product Manager to deeply understand business and product goals
- Lead the experience strategy for your product team, contributing first-class designs with little oversight. Use qualitative & quantitative research data to make informed decisions through a user-centered design approach.
- Partner with dev manager/developers to understand technical limitations & communicate solutions
- Create Figma prototypes and other evidence-based supporting materials that clearly communicate your solutions & rationale.
- Proactively engage with stakeholders throughout the organization to facilitate ongoing discussion about user problems and proposed design solutions.
- Collaborate with other UX designers to ensure the overarching experience is consistent and knowledge is actively shared.
You may be the right fit if you have
Required:
- 5+ years of experience as a UX designer, owning the design process from early-stage ideation through high-fidelity design
- Experience in responsive web & native app design
- Expert knowledge in Figma
- A robust online portfolio with case studies that illustrate your story of evidence-based product design and how you apply design principles
- Strong communication & storytelling skills
Highly preferred, but not required:
- A curious, critical, holistic thinker. You can articulate complex ideas
- Have a strong understanding of research methods, and experience with usertesting.com
- Able to digest input, feedback & criticism objectively to make thoughtful decisions
- Able to work in a rapid test & learn highly agile environment. You experiment often and are accustomed to a highly iterative design workflow.
- Independent, organized & able to prioritize effectively without losing sight of the big picture
- Prototype in HTML, CSS, & JavaScript is a plus
- Knowledge of React & Storybook is a plus
- A strong visual design aesthetic is a plus
