Software QA Engineer

Make an impact:You’ll work in a fast-paced, iterative environment where you are empowered and expected to participate in fulfilling our company mission to eliminate half of the inefficiencies in manufacturing—a $12T problem.

Broad technical scope: As a QA engineer, you’ll be exposed to the full gamut of our cloud platform, ML/AI pipelines, edge platform including hardware and embedded systems, SaaS, and edge applications.

Guardians of quality end-to-end: At Instrumental, we believe that the best products are built cross-functionally. You are a guardian of the quality of our solution end-to-end, so that our customers love it, our field deployment engineers love it, our product owners and engineers are proud of it.

Influence how we build:As a member of our small QA team, you’ll directly influence our approach and systems towards quality. Your work is highly visible!

Demonstrated ability to operate at startup scale; ready to tackle evolving challenges that require incremental and fast-paced innovation

Proven experience writing and executing test cases that strongly align with customer values and the priorities of the project and business

Minimum 3+ years of QA experience with web and/or mobile applications; bonus if you have experience testing hardware

Cares deeply about the end-to-end user experience and has demonstrated in a prior role that they will flag issues even when they’re “to spec”

Demonstrated experience working in a highly cross-functional environment + brings a strong voice in product, UX, and engineering review sessions to ensure quality considerations throughout the stages of development.

Strong communication skills and an ability to explain nuanced technical topics to both technical and non-technical audiences

Experience working on cloud platforms and SaaS development lifecycles

Past experience working with data-driven applications including basic SQL and/or scripting capabilities (SQL, shell, Python, etc.)

Experience owning test automation and driving unit/integration/solution test automation coverage with development engineers.

Past experience testing data analysis and visualization software, with proficiency in writing statistical calculations