Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer (offline)

Athena Analytics specialises in analytics software and reporting tools for the education sector which transform large amounts of data generated by schools into meaningful insights for school management and teachers.

Our main product is the Athena Tracker. The Athena Tracker assists schools in helping students to achieve their own individual potential and alerts them in real time when a student is falling below this potential. The software uses all available student data (we currently have over 60,000 students on the software) to create these predictions.

Our analytics products are in over 250 schools in Ireland. More information www.athena.ie.

We are looking for a Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer to join our growing team. The successful candidate will be based either in our office in Tralee, Co.Kerry or remotely.

As QA Engineer you will take part in implementing an automation strategy to accelerate testing with the highest level of quality and accuracy. You will work closely with the development team to continuously deliver highly valuable and reliable products.

Responsibilities:

• Manual testing
• Create UI and API tests.
• Analyse test results, troubleshooting issues and write up defects with a high level of details
• Interact with the development team to help create and maintain optimized, re-usable, detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases

You will need:
• Experience of participation in the whole software development lifecycle
• Experience in analysing the project documentation to ensure a thorough understanding of the business and technical requirements
• Experience with CI tools
• Basic knowledge of SQL and experience with RDBMS
• Basic knowledge of git (log, show, reflog, blame, stash, rebase and such), pull requests & squashing, understanding Github Flow.
• Experience with any REST API frameworks.


Also a plus:

• Experience working inside Rails ecosystem;
• Experience working with Rspec & Cаpybara or any other Ruby test frameworks;

About Athena Analytics

Through working on our academic tracking software, the Athena Tracker, we have built a model to help estimate what a student would most likely have gotten in the Leaving Certificate in a normal school year, based on their previous results. This model is based on the results of 130,000 previous students, and all of their previous results.

These estimated results can be used as an unbiased, evidence-based estimate for schools, based on well researched and tested statistical methods. It will incorporate patterns specific to subjects and levels and will recognise outliers in students' previous results - ensuring no student is penalised for one bad result. More information available here.

Our usual State Examination Reports can also be used in assisting schools with understanding past results of this set of students at Junior Certificate level and past recent results of the school at Leaving Certificate. More information available here.

Company website:
https://www.athena.ie/