We are looking for a self-motivated Quality Assurance professionalwho is excited aboutbeing a QA department of one, working closely with backend and frontend software developers at a remote-first company. In this position, you would testindustry-leading software used by librarians and researchers around the world to help them stay betterengaged with their favorite peer-reviewed journals.
Third Iron is dedicated to bringing next-generation technologies to libraries, and was founded by technologists and librarians with broad experience in the information industry.Libraries are going through a rapid transformation, and Third Iron helps libraries provide a great user experience for their patrons. If you have not been in a library lately, you may be surprised how technology is truly at the center of everything a library does. Our multi-platform service, BrowZine, enables academic & research libraries to make their peer-reviewed journals available to their patrons in an easy-to-use interface. Response has been terrificfrom a variety ofprofessors and researchers at world-renowned institutions.
Your Role
As a Quality Assurance teammate, youwill helpensure we ship high-quality software and minimize shippeddefectsfor Third Iron’s flagship product, BrowZine , and its supporting services.
Your work will likelystart with cleaning up our existing manual test procedures and creating new ones of your own. Since you are the first person who has a dedicated QA role, beingcreative about what to test is important to us, as well as being organized about how you will structure and otherwise write and maintaintests.Communicating frequently, abundantly, clearly, and empathetically are also core skills for this position.A good eye for things that look strange also helps!
Third Iron is a remote-first company. Everyone contributes remotely, whether software developer, customer support, or sales. We stay tightly in step with the needs of our customers – researchers and librarians – to help them browse, read, discover, and organize scholarly information.
Key Responsibilities:
Writing test procedures
Managing test procedures and resultsalongside our JIRA issues for new features, bugs, etc.
Testing our software in an exploratory manner to findbugs that slip by the automated tests we writeduring development
Working together with the dev team to figure out what to test and to ensure you get test results to developers in a timely fashion
You will be helping testmultiple web apps, includingbrowzine.com,and BrowZine’s associatednativeiOS and Android apps.
Our software is written in a variety of technologies, but the ones you’ll come into contact with the most are built usingJavascript (usually NodeJS or Ember), Postgres, Swift/Objective-C, and Java. Check out our entire stack at StackSharefor more information.
Eventually, wewould certainly like our firstQuality Assurance teammate to write automated tests, too,using some of the wide variety of tools available. However, that skill, or prior experience with this, is not necessary.
What We’re Looking For:
Apassion for quality assurance, and a desire forconstantly improving howyou do things is important to us.
Strong communication skills – communicating frequently, abundantly, clearly, and empathetically-are absolutelycritical on our remote-first team.
Comfort and interest with technology – generally having a little comfort with the UNIX command line is a good litmus test for this, but this could be demonstratedin a variety of ways. Some of the testing will involve the UNIX command line, in addition to a variety of clicking in web browsers and tapping on Android and iOS devices.
Being a self-motivated testerwho can work independently is important for remote work in general, and on our team.
Astrong desire to learn new technologies is something our teammates share.We want to embrace the tools and techniques that help us build great software and let us sleep soundly at night, knowing our users are having a delightful experience and our servers are not catching fire.
When applying,please include anything that helps demonstrate your testing and quality assuranceabilities, such as articles or blog posts you’ve written, bug reports on open source projects, or anything else you can share that is indicative of how you best contribute to a team.
About Third Iron
Third Iron, founded in 2011 as a remote-first software development company, creates innovative library technologies to help academic libraries and the researchers they support. BrowZine, our flagship service, is used by hundreds of universities, hospitals, corporations and government facilities around the world. Third Iron is aMinnesota, USA, company, but our software development team is distributed throughout the USA. We have been included in a list of the Top Telecommute Companies.
About BrowZine
BrowZine is a service that helps researchersbrowse, read and monitor academic literature. Whether a researcher’s interest is in science/engineering/STEM, social science, humanities, or any other area of study, BrowZine provides them with convenient workflow tool firmly integrated into other library systems to help them keep up with their journal reading.
