Quality Engineer Panjiva
Cambridge, MA

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Panjiva's award-winning and patented technology leverages machine learning to provide powerful search, analysis and visualization tools over hundreds of millions of global shipping records and over 100 million indexed web pages. The Panjiva platform handles millions of requests a day from users all over the world.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePanjiva is looking to hire an experienced software quality engineer. \u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAs a Software Engineer in Quality (and our first dedicated hire in this role) you will have the opportunity to help define what Quality Assurance means at Panjiva and shape the future direction of the Quality Assurance team. You'll be joining our expanding team of focused and talented engineers that believes in a collaborative working environment where we learn and teach each other new things every day. On any given day you may be writing unit tests, driving UI automation, building back-end tools, diving into performance stats, fixing issues, or fleshing out infrastructure; whatever it takes to make sure Panjiva stays innovative, reliable, and high quality for years to come.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSome of the types of problems you'll help solve\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAutomation of email, UI/UX etc. testing\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWork with teams to ensure quality through all stages of development\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eDeveloping user stories and flows for testing\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWriting testing scripts for our outsourced testers to run through\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePerformance testing and monitoring\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAdvocating for improvements that simplify user flows\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eEnsuring awesome and high quality software\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRequirements\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eB.S, M.S, or Ph.D. in CS, or equivalent experience\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAbility to quickly create test cases and have strong testing methodology\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAbility to create new testing infrastructure or learn\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eStrong communication skills\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eExperience with testing frameworks\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePassion for challenging problems and puzzles\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eStrong sense of process-orientation\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAbility to quickly and effectively triage quality 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