About us

Since its founding in 2016, Cognativ has quickly expanded beyond the USA to include teams in Spain, India, UK, and Serbia with clients across the USA and Europe. We aim to work with highly dynamic companies, startups, and investment firms. As part of Cognativ, you will be part of a broader multicultural and international team, regularly interacting with clients and team members worldwide

The Position:

Cognativ is looking for a QA Automation Engineer with proven knowledge of manual testing and automation testing for applications built in an older Microsoft tech stack.

As a QA automation engineer, we expect you to take full responsibility for the frontend and backend testing of the platform and developing testing automation.

Our US and New Zealand based client has a lot of legacy Microsoft technology along with some new JS frameworks.

Responsibilities:

Development and maintenance of test automation framework using Selenium and Cucumber.
Load simulation testing using Jmeter.
Ability to educate/coach existing QA team and define long term QA strategy.
Automation focus:

Primarily quantitative output from calculation/analysis engine.
Secondarily UI.

Update/create project documentation where needed including JIRA tickets.
Take part in team meetings and proactively communicate with the distributed team on a regular basis.
Take the lead on defining QA strategy and defining best practices.

Requirements:

Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
Excellent written and spoken English.
Comfortable operating in a relatively small team without much structure.
Eager to take initiative and partner with clients on planning and making technical & design decisions.
Time flexibility to work with client staff in both the US (multiple time zones) and New Zealand.
Able to work in and understand a software system using many older technologies and patterns.
Must be willing to attend twice weekly USA / NZ team meetings held at 15:00 US Central Time (22:00 CEST).
5 to 7+ years of QA automation experience
Well-versed in QA best practices
Experienced in testing with various Microsoft software technologies.
Experienced in Selenium, Cucumber.
Experience in performance testing with JMeter.

Our values:

Integrity - We are open and honest in our professional and in our personal lives.
Respect – We create an environment that respects and values everyone at all levels of the organization from all backgrounds, nationalities, races, and color.
Trust – We trust each other and our clients trust us to do what is needed to make them successful.
Commitment - We are focused on always being our best to ourselves, each other, our clients, and our community.

We offer:

A competitive salary.
A hybrid, flexible working policy.
Professional growth and deve lopment opportunities.
An international team of world class engineers that brings positive energy.
The friendly, supportive, relaxing working environment in our offices.
Trainings.
Private health insurance.
Monthly fun team activities.

Experience with public cloud GCP. Experience with scripting languages - Primarily Bash, Ruby and Python). Experience with open-source infrastructure such as and Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD Pipelines. Experience with Linux/Unix system.