The Giving Block is a venture capital-backed company that makes it easy for nonprofits to accept donations in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, while offering donors a more tax-efficient way to support their favorite projects. We are the market-leading provider and work with over 1300 nonprofits, including large organizations like United Way Worldwide and the American Cancer Society. We are well on our way to raising over $100 million in crypto donations for our clients and will continue to grow rapidly in 2022. Since March 2022, The Giving Block is a Shift4 company that operates independently.\n\nOur goal is to make accepting cryptocurrency donations as easy as paying by credit card. Help us empower nonprofits around the world with the ability to accept cryptocurrency donations to unlock an exciting new wave of funding and accelerate their missions!\n\n**Summary Description**\n\nWe have more projects on our roadmap than ever before and are ramping up our development and testing efforts once again. Now we are looking for a Middle QA Engineer to join one of our development teams and drive manual testing. The candidate will have the opportunity to participate in the quality assurance of our core technology and its integrations with non-profit organizations, industry-leading crypto products, and our ecosystem partners. We are looking for a self-motivated, proactive, and energetic individual. We expect you to help us build transparent testing processes, coordinate and drive sprint development within your team, and ensure good quality in our releases.\n\nHere are some examples of the work you will do on a daily basis:\n\n* Manual functional and integration testing of web applications and services.\n* Designing and executing test cases in TestRail.\n* Working with the product manager and development team to define acceptance criteria for Stories.\n* Ongoing testing of new functionality during sprint development.\n* Smoke and regression testing during release of new versions.\n* Coordinating releases from a quality assurance perspective.\n* Reporting of bugs.\n* Assist with reproduction and coordination of support incidents.\n\n**We require**\n\n* At least 3 years of experience in manual testing of web applications\n* Deep understanding of SDLC\n* Strong understanding of Agile principles and Scrum methodology\n* Experience in testing Web interfaces, REST API and SOAP\n* Understanding of HTTP (S), JSON, XML\n* Basic knowledge of SQL\n* Experience with Jira (or similar task tracker)\n* Self-driven, proactive and good communication skills\n* International work and communication experience\n* Written and spoken English: upper intermediate level\n* Experience of work with fully-remote teams\n\n**What we offer**\n\n* Competitive compensation (salary, benefits, etc.)\n* Three weeks of paid vacation and 10+ company-wide holidays\n* Flexible work location and hours (fully remote)\n* Company issued laptop and equipment\n* We work with agile methodologies without unnecessary bureaucracy\n\nWe’re building the future of giving. Join us in creating positive change through innovative technology! \n\n \n\nPlease mention the word **PERSEVERANCE** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4yMg==). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n $40,000 — $60,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nEurope, CIS, USA

\nLocation: Remote\n\nVirtual, work-from-home position. Work anywhere in the US, must live in the US\n\nWe are growing! Join a technology team of 35 rockstar developers, quality assurance engineers, business analysts, project managers, etc who support a company of over 125 people with industry-leading web applications in areas of subscription-based continuing education, simulation and training, ecommerce, content management, and more. \n\nABOUT THE COMPANY\n\nWe are continued. We are fast-paced, nimble, and laugh a lot. We all work from home offices in various locations across the country. We are dynamic, engaged, highly motivated and highly skilled. We are passionate about our work and our professions and we’re looking for another team member to join our cause. We are certified as a great workplace and ranked #6 in the top 50 2019 Best Small Business Workplaces by the independent analysts at Great Place to Work®. Learn more about us at continued.com.\n\nABOUT THE TEAM\n\nOur meetings are filled with sarcasm, laughter, and movie quotes. We share code on github and contribute back to the open source community, whenever able. Though we are virtual, we communicate a lot and have a tight-knit group. We pair, encourage test driven development, collaborate, and enjoy healthy debate here and are looking for someone who can thrive in that environment. A thirst for knowledge and passion for solving problems is what drives the team. Training and education is a big part of who we are, not only as a company, but also as a mindset. We keep up to date in our field via continuing education, conferences, etc.\n\nABOUT THE POSITION\n\nWe are seeking an extremely detailed and personable Web Application QA Engineer to conduct the testing of our web applications.\n\n\n* Full-Time, 8a-5p in your time zone\n\n* Work from your home office\n\n* Company-provided MacBook Pro and internet service stipend\n\n* Must be located in the US and legally eligible to work in the US without sponsorship\n\n* Travel is required for an annual company meeting (which is a lot of fun), and maybe required a handful of times for team or project meetings (once COVID clears of course)\n\n\n\n\nRESPONSIBILITIES\n\n\n* Test web and mobile application releases on a day-to-day and project-by-project basis\n\n* Manual and automated testing\n\n* Develop and execute comprehensive testing plans for each project release\n\n* Develop/implement automated test strategy, including record and playback and scripts\n\n* Attend meetings within an Agile framework and deliver updates on testing progress\n\n* Assist stakeholders in keeping application specifications accurate and up to date\n\n* Work with Developers to improve automated testing where possible\n\n* Work with project sponsors and product owners to improve daily testing regimens to ensure the websites are functioning at an optimal level\n\n* Analyze documented defects to identify root cause and impact on related functions or product features\n\n* Identify and mitigate risks/issues related to testing\n\n* Suggest improvements, best practices, and new approaches to the testing workflow (your voice will be heard)\n\n\n\n\nREQUIREMENTS\n\nSelf-management and time management are critical in this role. Without it, you will not be successful. Other requirements include:\n\n\n* 5+ years of testing experience: test planning and test execution\n\n* Bachelor’s degree preferred\n\n* Experience in automated testing applications such as Robot Framework, Selenium, Cucumber, TestComplete/Cross Browser Testing, UFT/SRF\n\n* Experience with API testing tools, such as with ReadyAPI/SOAPUI\n\n* Experience with Load Testing applications such as LoadNinja\n\n* Demonstrated experience testing large web applications\n\n* Knowledge of cross-browser compatibility issues\n\n* Knowledge of how and where web applications fail - knowing how to break things!\n\n* Experience with MySQL\n\n* Experience with Python is a plus, but not required\n\n* Experience working in an Agile environment and using tools such as Jira and Confluence, or similar\n\n* Excellent communication skills - must be able to explain technical issues to a non-technical person and in a pleasant manner (we are always on Slack with stakeholders)\n\n* Highly attentive to detail - able to cross all the t's and dot all the i's at all times. Your success will depend on it\n\n* There is direct oversight, but you are expected to take ownership of your work, to establish deadlines, and to communicate progress proactively\n\n* Must be reliable and trustworthy\n\n* A home office, free of distractions, with a high-speed Internet connection\n\n* Easygoing, fun, and a team player - must be able to comprehend highly-advanced forms of sarcasm\n\n* Eager to research and learn in a self-directed way (always improving)\n\n\n\n\nWe prefer a great/interested/excited tester with less experience to an unmotivated or unengaged tester with tons of experience.\n\nTO APPLY\n\nSubmit a cover letter with your resume that includes 1) a QA project you are particularly proud of and why; and 2) a favorite clip from youtube. Submissions without this information will not be considered. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Quality Assurance, Engineer, Web Developer, Jira, Education, Python, API and Mobile jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n