Join us as we pursue our disruptive new vision to make machine data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. We are a company filled with people who are passionate about our product and seek to deliver the best experience for our customers. At Splunk, we’re committed to our work, customers, having fun and most importantly to each other’s success. Learn more about Splunk careers and how you can become a part of our journey!
The VictorOps team at Splunk is located in Boulder, CO. This team is made up of a strong mix of very talented and driven individuals, with a proven senior leadership team with a strong technical background. Our office is downtown Boulder and offers not only a fully stocked kitchen but also craft beer on-tap.
Who Are You?
Are you passionate about being involved in making really cool and creative software? Are you the sort of person who points out flaws in video games you’ve played or who finds plot holes in movies? Then, read on friend...
As a QA Engineer, you will work embedded in a cross-functional squad where collaborate with the product owner and your engineers to help deliver really cool software, fast. You will be responsible for helping to build and maintain manual test plans, test our web client and own the manual test initiative for your team. You will also be a strong advocate for quality throughout the company. And finally, you will collaborate with our support and success teams to understand odd user behavior to drive effective and meaningful exploratory testing efforts.
For this role, we are looking for someone with proven experience with manual and exploratory testing of web applications and someone who has passion to remain in the field of software quality assurance for the long haul. In addition, we offer plenty of learning opportunities as well as opportunities to evolve process to fit the needs of the business. Because we work within the DevOps community, a working knowledge of tools in the space would be a nice to have, but a willingness to learn about them is a must!
Please note, at this time we are exclusively looking for candidates with prior manual QA experience and a keen interest in remaining in the QA field.
To be successful, you will need good interpersonal skills, an eagerness to help our engineering teams achieve perfection, excellent written and verbal skills and the ability to be self-directed. In addition, they should be familiar with Agile practices, and be willing and eager to participate in every aspect of the software development life cycle.
Responsibilities
- Build, maintain and execute manual & exploratory test plans using Zephyr
- Understand testing effort and communicate risks, concerns, and levels of test effort to your team
- Work with your lead to prioritize and maintain detailed bug backlog using Jira
- Analyze feature requirements, then verify quality of new features
- Work as an important member of the larger Engineering team to ensure quality for our applications
Day-to-Day
- Collaborate with your Engineering squad to help document creating new manual testing test plans as well as maintaining existing ones
- Find, document, prioritize defects
- Test and validate web client application
- Vocalizing concerns around quality to the rest of your team
Qualifications:
- Preference to applicants with a background in testing web applications for at least 2 years
- Dedication to software quality for the long term
- Knack for thinking like and having empathy for users
- Excellent exploratory testing skills
- Willingness to grow with your team, learn from and mentor others on QA methodologies
- Highly driven and self-motivated, comfortable with autonomy but happy to work with a team
- Strong verbal communication skills
We value diversity at our company. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.
For job positions in San Francisco, CA, and other locations where required, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Thank you for your interest in Splunk!