Innovation is about getting your most powerful ideas to market.
That’s why we’re here. Sopheon sets the standard in developing the tools you need to capture the ideas in front of you that have the highest potential (value, adoption, impact), and capitalize on them by efficiently and effectively getting them into customers’ hands. Forever finding new ways forward is how even the most creative companies keep achieving sustainable, profitable futures.
Sopheon is an international supplier of leading-edge products in innovation and new product development. Sopheon has operating bases in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.
A company can only be as forward-thinking as its people
That’s why Sopheon fosters a supportive and collaborative work environment that encourages our employees to be...
- Innovative
- Enthusiastic
- Empowered
Sopheon is looking for a QA Team Lead to drive our continuous releasability strategy. We work with expert colleagues to combine design, business, and engineering skills to achieve high value end-to-end customer experience in everything we deliver. Team members utilize standards and best practices to assure the usability, quality, maintainability, performance, and scalability of our products developed through collaborative agile processes.
Sopheon offers a flexible work from home environment that fosters productivity and balance to ensure goals can be achieved. If you have been striving to truly make a difference for world class customers with industry leading products, this is your opportunity.
Duties and Responsibilities
Working as an Individual Contributor and Team Member:
- Establish and meet individual, team, and project goals to strategically deliver the product roadmap with consistency and quality using Agile processes.
- Deliver consistent results aligned with the product roadmap expectations.
- Collaborate cross-functionally and with subject matter experts to deliver high-quality and high-value products.
- Resolve technical hurdles to provide optimal solutions that meet or exceed solution and delivery expectations.
- Drive the continuous improvement of Agile development methods, including metric definition, quality processes, and general software development practices.
Working as a QA Manager:
- Develop and maintain a strong understanding of the business to operationalize a sustainable and effective testing pyramid in alignment with product strategy
- Manage and optimize quality activities in the release development cycle, balancing coverage, effort, and repeatability
- Develop end to end test strategies, coordinate test plans, and author test cases based on functional and non-functional requirements
- Drive Quality Operations, reducing friction via
- Increased automation, potentially through pipeline integrations, scripting, and appropriate tool usage
- Establishing self-serve capabilities for environment, data, and deployment management
- Managing the appropriate knowledge and status centers to confidently perform the above
- Manage and develop other QA Analysts as direct reports
Working as a Release Manager
Coordinate and govern the release activities needed to confidently ship high-quality application software.
Technical Skills and Experience - Required
- Usage of API/Request Testing tools (such as Postman and Fiddler)
- Basic Database management and Querying (MS SQL Server Preferred)
- Test Data Management
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools (such as Bamboo, GitHub Actions, etc.)
- Experience with Load Testing tools (JMeter)
- Working knowledge of scripting or programing languages (JavaScript, PowerShell, etc.)
- Experience with security scanning tools (such as Acunetix or WebInspect)
- Experience working against version control tools like Git
- Web Application Browser Profiling and Analysis, using tools like:
- Browser development tools – Chrome, Edge, etc.
- Google Lighthouse
Other Technical Skills – Nice to have
- Experience with using node.js and tools from that ecosystem
- Experience with using docker and containers
- Application Profiling and Analysis, using tools like:
- DataDog
- Solarwinds DPA
- AWS Cloud Services
Personal/Interpersonal Skills
- Ability to thrive and self-start in a highly agile, collaborative team environment.
- Ability to learn quickly and apply modern technologies to solve problems.
- Excellent communication and diplomacy skills.
- Knowledge of psychological safety, work-life balance, workplace fairness, and other concepts relevant to the cultivation of healthy workplace cultures
Education
- Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent in Computer Science, MIS, CIS, or related discipline.
- 8+ years’ experience in software quality assurance testing
Apply Now
To apply for a position on the Sopheon team, send CV or resume to: jobs@sopheon.com.
Sopheon is an equal opportunity employer and supports workforce diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability or national origin.
Some positions at Sopheon require consent to and successfully passing a background check prior to employment. Also, certain Sopheon customers operate in sensitive industries and require that individuals undergo background screening prior to being involved in a project. The screening process could include verification of identity, criminal record checks and drug abuse checks. If you join us, you may be required to undergo such additional screenings.
Inclusivity Statement:
We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, age, marital status, physical or mental disability, predisposing genetic characteristics, sexual orientation, domestic violence victim status, military status, or veteran's status.
