Manual QA Tester - Backend

Manual QA Tester - Backend

Who we’re looking for

Fieldwire, a SaaS based software service provider for construction management, is looking for an experienced backend QA tester to join our talented QA team. The quality and availability of our platform are of the utmost importance to Fieldwire and its customers. QA plays a critical role in ensuring we maintain the high quality bar our customers expect from us. Through manual and automated testing, our goal is to find as many bugs as possible in a continuous feedback loop during the development process.

The backend team at Fieldwire builds and maintains the endpoints and services leveraged by our client applications including web, mobile, and other third party integrations. Our engineering teams are multifunctional and collaborate closely with our product and design teams. Fieldwire’s apps are mission critical for the construction teams that use Fieldwire every day on the jobsite.

What you’ll be doing?

You will own the quality and validation for our Backend Services team and create long-lasting foundations at Fieldwire. You will be working directly with our backend and product team and to create test plans, own the testing of backend features, and understand the story of how these endpoints connect with our client applications. Day-to-day includes adding and maintaining tests in our backend test suite, exploring and understanding test scenarios for our endpoints, and rooting out bugs and regressions.

A day in the life of a QA Backend Tester will frequently see them solving these types of problems:

• Testing new endpoints and updates to endpoints developed during a given sprint
• Writing new API tests to increase test coverage
• Identify testability requirements and utilizing industry tools like Postman for manual testing
• Understanding and communicating the scope of endpoint changes to other QA members 
• Working directly with our backend team to plan, write, and execute tests
• Organizing group testing sessions and bug bashes
• Working with the QA team and other engineering partners to build engineering best practices 

At Fieldwire, we’re looking for our QA Backend Tester to have the following skills and experiences: 

• 5+ years of experience working as a QA tester (engineer, analyst)
• 2+ years of experience building tests against APIs and endpoints
• Experience in executing test cycles and reporting results and failures
• Experience with identifying how APIs are consumed by client applications
• Basic SQL experience
• Familiar with QA best practices, such as identifying test coverage, edge cases, exploratory testing, etc.
• Strong communication skills and attention to detail

And if you have any of the following, we REALLY want you to apply today!

• Experience building and maintaining Postman collections
• Experience with scalability and performance testing

Why Fieldwire?

Fieldwire is a construction field management software, used on over 1M+ projects worldwide. We’re obsessed with improving the way teams work together. We’re building a Field Management Platform dedicated to construction teams — providing operational excellence for one of the world’s largest global industries -- $10 Trillion/year. We’re delivering a superior, easy-to-use product that’s driven by the voice of our customers.

Fieldwire solves the problem of access to information and coordination of labor at a large scale for some of the largest projects in the world. The Fieldwire mobile app has a nearly five-star rating based on thousands of customer reviews. Fieldwire was venture backed by top venture capitalists and has already transformed the way thousands of companies worldwide are working together. Fieldwire was acquired by Hilti for $300M in November 2021.

Compensation

The estimated pay ranges for this role are as follows: $75,000-$90,000.

The salary range represents the low and high end of the salary range for this job in the US. The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors such as your skills, qualifications and experience. In addition to the salary you may be eligible for a corporate bonus which can range up to 20%.

Where is the job located?

This role is fully remote within the US or in the beautiful city of San Francisco, CA. Our office is located right off of Embarcadero Bart station. Easily accessible by all forms of public transportation.

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Fieldwire is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, Veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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