We are looking for a self-motivated Test Engineerwho is excited aboutbeing a testingdepartment 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 Test Engineer, 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 witha dedicated quality enforcementrole, yourcreativity in exploratory testing will be important, as well as being organized about how you will structure and otherwise write and maintain the regularly-run tests.Communicating frequently, abundantly, clearly, and empathetically are core skills for this position.A good eye for anomaliesalso helps!
Third Iron is a remote-first company. Everyone contributes remotely, whether on software development, 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 & maintainingtest procedures
Managing test procedures and test 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
Workingas part of thedev 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 services, includingbrowzine.com, theassociatednativeiOS and Android apps, and back officesupport tools, including command-line UNIX tools.
Your role reports directly to theCTO.
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.
Automated end-to-end acceptance tests are a long-term goal that the Test Engineer will be responsible for moving us towards,using some of the wide variety of tools available.
What We’re Looking For:
Apassion fortesting, 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.
Four year degree in an engineering or computer science discipline preferred.
When applying,please include anything that helps demonstrate your testing abilities, 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.
US work authorization required.
If you are a software development firm looking to hire out a team, do not contact us; we are interested in a single, full-time candidate.
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.
