QA Engineer (offline)

Fully remote long-term contract for a Silicon Valley company, building Search and Discovery applications based on machine learning and Artificial Intelligence.

Type: 12 months contract with possible extensions
Location: 100% remote
Schedule: 5PM to 2AM UA time (matched Pacific business hours)

Who our Client is:
Lucidworks builds AI-powered search and discovery applications for some of the world’s largest brands. Fusion, Lucidworks’ advanced development platform, provides the enterprise-grade capabilities needed to design, develop and deploy intelligent search apps at any scale. Built on the global search standard, Apache Solr. The world’s most widely deployed open source search platform, and used by 90% of the Fortune 500 companies. Our team includes leading contributors and committers to the Lucene and Solr projects. We employ some of the world’s foremost search and machine learning experts,and is obsessed about helping companies dramatically increase their ability to deliver personalized and contextual search experiences that transforms their business.
Reddit, Red Hat, Moody’s, Commvault, and the US Census are just of few of the companies that rely on Lucidworks every day. Lucidworks’ investors include Top Tier Capital Partners, Shasta Ventures, Granite Ventures, Silver Lake Waterman, and Walden International. Our team includes leading contributors and committers to the Lucene and Solr projects, as well as experts in UX, enterprise search, machine learning, distributed computing, and scalability. We work with clever organizations across all industries including life-sciences, financial services, media and manufacturing, which means we have a wide variety of different challenges to tackle!
We're looking for a smart, passionate and hard-working QA professional to work on our framework of search-based applications. As a member of our Solutions team, you will have a good understanding of modern web application development, based around principles of lean, scalable microservices.

Who you are:
Personality Matters. Most of us spend a huge part of our lives at work. Working on interesting things with smart, awesome people makes this part of our life great. So here’s both who we are, and who we hope can join our team.

Required skills/experience:

QA Engineer with 3+ years of experience testing websites, mobile apps and Linux command line knowledge.
Developing test cases, reporting on issues and driving them to resolution
Based on customer's compatibility matrix testing team is able to execute functional test on different browsers, Operating Systems.
Test the UI for different resolutions, color schemes.
If required, Testing team will develop test cases
Adhoc, Acceptance and Usability testing are performed with the frequency requested by the client
All the defects will be logged into Client’s Bug Tracking Systems. All the defects will include (Description, Clear Steps to Reproduce, OS/Browser Compatibility, Log Files, Screenshots and videos wherever applicable)
Once the defects are fixed the team will perform regression testing and ensure that all the defects were addressed, and a minimum of Exit Criteria is met. Team can also help set up the exit criteria
During test execution, team will provide the client with reports on test progress. Based on the agreed schedule these reports will include: Test Coverage%, Pass/Fail%, Major Showstoppers, Risks and mitigation suggestions)
Testing team can also identify, develop and possibly automate scripts for smoke tests to ensure continuous integration.
*Database testing experience is nice to have.

About SQA Solution

With 15+ years of comprehensive experience in software quality assurance, SQA Solution is a reliable US provider of SQA services, QA consulting and staffing, and SQA training. Trusted by global Fortune500 companies, such as Roche, DeltaDental, and Autodesk, SQA Solution offers an efficient and scalable approach to staffing services.