[Hiring] QA Engineer @Authenticate

Authenticate™ (Santa Monica, CA) is looking for a talented, hard-working, India-based QA Engineer to be a utility player on our development team. We provide services for identity verification and fraud prevention to add trust and safety, mitigate risk, deter theft, stop loss, protect assets, and ensure the most well-informed decisions based on the most accurate, verifiable data.

We are seeking a detail-oriented QA Manual Engineer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for ensuring the quality and performance of our software products through manual testing. You will work closely with developers, product managers, and other stakeholders to identify and resolve issues, ensuring a seamless user experience.

You must be able to multi-task and manage many responsibilities at a time. You must also be comfortable contacting clients, team members, vendors, etc., through various channels. Problem-solving skills and initiative are fundamental requirements of the position and the determining factors in your evaluation. You will be performing tests of various kinds, including manual, integration, and performance testing on several products simultaneously, and be expected to organize and document your efforts diligently. You must frequently annotate our Jira boards and update the team regularly.

You can enjoy the freedom of an independent, home/office/hybrid (Bangalore, India) based position that could be very lucrative if you can be very productive. The ideal applicant must be tremendously self-sufficient and self-disciplined. They must also possess a strong ability to solve problems, express doubts, and push back when necessary. 

You’ll be part of our Product & QA team, who are responsible for building products that create value and have a great experience for our customers. You’re expected to work with our product, quality and engineering teams to ensure that the shipped update is bug-free and the best version of what we can release to our customers. You need to be product-driven and would be expected to be a high agency in terms of getting the work done.

We follow the agile methodology of development, and we expect you to come with enough experience to be able to hit the ground running on day one. You’ll be responsible for testing UI & UX improvements/feature updates and creating concise yet detailed tickets that will help your teammates to identify and fix issues as fast as possible. Your way of product thinking will be valuable here. You should also have a strong understanding of APIs, so as to test our backend API endpoints as required.

Requirements

Must haves:

• Minimum 3 years of quality assurance experience.
• Experience in software quality assurance, and API testing is a must along with manual testing experience. 
• Experience with security/performance testing, white box testing, and black box testing is a must. 
• Experience writing clear, concise, and comprehensive test plans and cases. 
• Highly motivated, self-starter with a goal-oriented personality.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process.

Things that’ll help you stand out:

• Experience with automated testing tools. 
• Excellent written and verbal skills.
• Knowledge of databases. 
• Enthusiastic and energetic about solving the problems we face.
• Team player.
• Experienced carrying a high workload in a high-pressure, fast-paced work environment and relentlessly focused on impact.

Benefits

• Salary will vary based on skill level and experience.
• Direct deposit via Wise.com
• Restricted stock options are available after one year.
• Time off as needed.

Authenticate® provides powerful developer tools for identity authentication and fraud prevention. Our solution integrates multiple verification tools to enable customers to create proprietary trust scores on peer-to-peer exchanges, two-sided marketplaces, online communities and more worldwide through the Authenticate.com API and mobile SDK. We are also proud to offer low cost AML, KYC, FCRA DPPA EEOC & FHA compliant checks via channel partnerships with leading CRAs (Credit Reporting Agencies) & data furnishers. Moreover our unified solution helps save customers time to market as well as R&D costs associated with managing multiple integrations & accounts while offering lower costs due the combined purchasing power of our customer base along with preferential pricing that includes a direct line of contact for upper management support which would not be available if they went direct to our partners instead.