SDET/Automation QA Engineer
Irvine, CA

Job Description

Job Description

Acorns is seeking a QA Engineer who has a passion for helping create reliable, bug free user experience and a background writing functional, integration, system and end-to-end automated tests.

As a QA Engineer, your typical week would involve collaborating with product and the other various engineering teams to plan the build out test suites for new features. You will participate in product feature and architecture design reviews to identify concerns and risks early in the product life cycle. You will build and maintain tools and frameworks to support ongoing automated testing efforts on all supported mobile platforms and browser configurations. You will be developing and maintaining test plans, test cases, and automated tests to ensure sufficient test coverage of our mobile, web, and backend applications.

You are not expected to have experience with all technologies listed in this posting. We're looking for an experienced QA Engineer that loves learning new technologies on the job, thinks creatively to solve complex problems, and enjoys working collaboratively.

What you will bring to Acorns:

* 4+ years of experience as a QA/QE Engineer, SDET or similar role preferred


* Working knowledge of test methodologies, processes, and tools


* Agile Testing Experience in an agile development environment (e.g. SCRUM/XP/Kanban)


* Experience programming in any modern programming language: Ruby, Python, Java, Scala, JavaScript, C#,etc


* Experience with backend testing of RESTful APIs


* Experience with sql and nosql database testing - mysql, postgress, mongodb, dynamo db


* Experience with AWS highly desired


* Excellent analytical, problem-solving, multi-tasking, troubleshooting, and decision-making skills


* Must be self-directed, detail-oriented, and have excellent written & verbal communication skills


* Experience with Unix (Linux preferred)


* Comfortable communicating cross-functionally and across management levels in formal and informal settings


* Shows creativity and initiative to improve product test coverage and effectiveness



Acorns is seeking a QA Engineer who has a passion for helping create reliable, bug free user experience and a background writing functional, integration, system and end-to-end automated tests. As a QA Engineer, your typical week would involve collaborating with product and the other various engineering teams to plan the build out test suites for new features. You will participate in product feature and architecture design reviews to identify concerns and risks early in the product life cycle. You will build and maintain tools and frameworks to support ongoing automated testing efforts on all supported mobile platforms and browser configurations. You will be developing and maintaining test plans, test cases, and automated tests to ensure sufficient test coverage of our mobile, web, and backend applications.