Software Test Engineer I, Foundation Engineering - Seattle Job Listing at Qualtrics in Seattle, WA (Job ID 6862262)

Description

At Qualtrics, we create software the world's best brands use to deliver exceptional frontline experiences, build high-performing teams, and design products people love. But we are more than a platform—we are the creators and stewards of the Experience Management category serving over 18K clients globally. Building a category takes grit, determination, and a disdain for convention—but most of all it requires close-knit, high-functioning teams with an unwavering dedication to serving our customers.

When you join one of our teams, you'll be part of a nimble group that's empowered to set aggressive goals and move fast to achieve them. Strategic risks are encouraged and complex problems are solved together, by passing the mic and iterating until the best solution comes to light. You won't have to look to find growth opportunities—ready or not, they'll find you. From retail to government to healthcare, we're on a mission to bring humanity, connection, and empathy back to business. Join over 5,000 people across the globe who think that's work worth doing. 

Software Test Engineer I, Foundation Engineering - Seattle 

Why We Have This Role

Our team is a collection of extremely passionate engineers who are riding the cutting edge of cloud computing and web scalability. We organize and sort terabytes of data and develop solutions used by millions of users every day. We design tools that make sophisticated research simple. Our teams are empowered to choose technologies that are best to solve each problem. In our collaborative culture, you find plenty of opportunities to impact our full-stack product, from Web & mobile UI to data visualization & analysis to microservices APIs to data storage & processing.

How You'll Find Success

As a Software Test Engineer at Qualtrics, you should love testing solutions to solve hard, high scale problems. Designing test plans in an agile environment to withstand hyper growth and owning quality from end to end is a rewarding challenge and one of the reasons Qualtrics is such an exciting place to work. Highly communicative and influential, creating trust at the team level. Think of automation first. We only manually test as a last resort, so look at the whole system and find the right place to apply a technical solution. Show flexibility in a fast moving environment. Challenges are varied, so be ready to shift between features like low level data management to top level UI improvements. 

How You'll Grow

Qualtrics is a fast paced, dynamic environment where you will have the opportunity to build on and expand your experience through working on high impact projects, utilising cutting edge tools and technologies, troubleshooting challenging problems and working alongside like minded and driven technical professionals.

Things You'll Do

• Design test plans and test cases for data systems and web applications
• Find, triage, and document bugs worth fixing
• Conduct ad-hoc and scripted manual tests
• Convert manual test cases into automated cases in an existing framework using Python or TypeScript
• Investigate test failures and customer reports using your technical understanding of the product and tools (such as logs) to narrow down repro issues steps and isolate the root problem
• Contribute to test frameworks, test tools, and automation for complex, distributed SaaS systems
• You ensure the product is tested at the appropriate level (unit vs integration vs end to end, API vs UI), reducing unnecessary test cases, intermittent failures, and decreasing execution time.
• Drive quality processes like bug triage, release decisions, and feature completion criteria
• You mentor and develop your other team members.

What We're Looking For On Your Resume

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as IT, Engineering, Math, Physics or similar with Computer Science coursework or minor. Computer science degree accepted but not required.
• 0-2 years of professional coding experience with any programming language (Prefer experience in Python/JavaScript)
• 0-2 years of relevant experience as part of a test team
• 0-2 years of experience contributing to test automation and frameworks
• Familiar with front-end technologies (including Selenium-based automation), REST web services and/or constructing database queries
• An excellent Ad-hoc tester
• Experience applying different software testing techniques, such as equivalence class partitioning, boundary value testing, pairwise testing, etc

What You Should Know About This Team

• The Qualtrics XM PlatformTM is a system of action that helps businesses to attract customers who stay longer and buy more, to engage and empower employees to do the best work of their lives, to develop breakthrough products people love, and to build a brand people can't imagine living without.  
• Joining Qualtrics means becoming part of a team bold enough to chase breakthrough experiences - like building a technology that will be a force for good. A team committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion because of a conviction that every voice holds value, with a vision for representation that matches the world around us and inclusion that far exceeds it. 
• You could belong to a team whose values center on transparency, being all in, having customer obsession, acting as one team, and operating with scrappiness. All so you can do the best work of your career.  

Our Team's Favorite Perks and Benefits

• Fun and collaborative office environment with in office amenities, snacks, lunch, drinks, outdoor garden space, and of course, pinball!
• Quarterly team offsites, giving team members a chance to interact with each other outside of the office and build camaraderie.
• Wellness bonus of $300 per quarter you can use on anything wellness related! 
• Learning opportunities: online learning resources, $25 per quarter to spend on books, and 10% of your time to spend on personal growth projects.

The Qualtrics Hybrid Work Model: Our hybrid work model is elegantly simple: we all gather in the office three days a week; Mondays and Thursdays, plus one day selected by your organizational leader. These purposeful in-person days in thoughtfully designed offices help us do our best work and harness the power of collaboration and innovation. For the rest of the week, work where you want, owning the integration of work and life.

Qualtrics is an equal opportunity employer meaning that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristic.

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Qualtrics is committed to the inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Qualtrics will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please let your Qualtrics contact/recruiter know.

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For full-time positions, this pay range is for base per year; however, base pay offered may vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, education, skills, and experience. A sign-on bonus and restricted stock units may be included in an employment offer, in addition to a range of medical, financial, and other benefits, based on eligibility criteria.