QA Engineer - API Hub

At SmartBear, we believe building great software starts with quality—and we’re helping our customers make that happen every day. Our solution hubs—SmartBear API Hub, SmartBear Insight Hub, and SmartBear Test Hub, featuring HaloAI, bring visibility and automation to software development, making it easier for teams to deliver high-quality software faster. SmartBear is trusted by over 16 million developers, testers, and software engineers at 32,000+ organizations – including innovators like Adobe, JetBlue, FedEx, and Microsoft.

QA Engineer – API Hub for Design (SwaggerHub)

• Build and shape development practices on a tangible industry, a leading API development product.
• Play a critical role in technical implementation, customer usage models, and the development of test plans and test suites.
• Tech stack: Tech stack: JavaScript, Playwright, TestNG, Cucumber, BDD, GitHub, REST APIs

Product intro:

API Hub is an integrated API development platform aimed at teams using the Swagger framework to design, build, document and deploy APIs.  API Hub enables collaboration and coordination through the entire API lifecycle with integrations to engineer favorite toolsets such as, AWS, GitHub, Apigee as well as other SmartBear products. 

Go to our product page if you want to know more about API Hub.
You can even have a free trial to check it out 😊

About the role:

As QA Engineer you will work with acceptance testing, regression testing, test automation and overall providing the highest quality experience to users.

• Identify business requirements and work closely with the product owner, developers to find solutions, providing feedback and ensuring they are fit for purpose.
• Identify and agreed testing requirements/scope for API Hub for Design linked with other API Hub products, e.g. API Hub for Explorer, Portal, Contract Testing (PactFlow), Test.
• Provide feedback/input on the techniques, solutions and tools used throughout projects.
• Manual regression testing of integrated components for each production release.
• Write and maintain automated regression and new features tests.
• Exploratory testing of feature components beyond the scope of agreed acceptance tests.
• Take leadership in advocating test process within the scrum team and guide developers in testing best practices.

We are looking for you if you have: 

• 3+ years’ experience in software testing/test automation.
• Experience in test automation tools and frameworks such as Playwright, JavaScript, Selenium, Cucumber, TestNG and with source code management tools e.g. GitHub, SVN.
• Good documentation skills when using project management and test tools e.g. JIRA, Zephyr Scale, TestRail, Confluence or similar.
• Strong knowledge of SDLC (particularly agile) and testing principles.
• English on at least B2 level.

Why you should join the SmartBear crew:

• You can grow your career at every level.
• We invest in your success as well as the spaces where our teams come together to work, collaborate, and have fun.
• We love celebrating our SmartBears; we even encourage our crew to take their birthdays off.
• We are guided by a People and Culture organization - an important distinction for us. We think about our team holistically – the whole person.
• We celebrate our differences in experiences, viewpoints, and identities because we know it leads to better outcomes.

Did you know

• Our main goal at SmartBear is to make our technology-driven world a better place.
• SmartBear is committed to ethical corporate practices and social responsibility, promoting good in all the communities we serve.
• SmartBear is headquartered in Somerville, MA with offices across the world including Galway Ireland, Bath, UK, Wroclaw, Poland and Bangalore, India.
• We’ve won major industry(product and company) awards including B2B Innovators Award, Content Marketing Association, IntellyX Digital Innovator and BuiltIn Best Places to Work.

SmartBear is committed to creating an inclusive workplace for employees where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. We are an equal opportunity employer and make employment decisions based on merit, qualifications, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, gender, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other protected status under applicable laws. We are dedicated to fostering a workplace that reflects a diversity of thought and experience as well as our values of being smart, open, driven, accountable, and curious.