Quality Engineer - Remote

Overview

As a member of the Everbridge Engineering team, you will be responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of modular, extensible, and reusable test cases and scripts. In this role, you will be integrated with an engineering team and will partner with other team members to drive quality best practices into the application development process.

In Short

• Manual testing and configuring test environments across different platforms
• Performing regression test cycles and smoke tests for releases.
• Detecting software failures so that defects may be discovered and corrected.
• Documenting anomalies and issues in a bug tracking tool.
• Operating and maintaining test devices.
• Writes test cases efficiently.
• Understands technology related to product and can debug basic problems.
• Demonstrates the ability to deploy and configure test environments.
• Helping to design and execute test plans, recording and documenting results, and comparing to expected results.
• Possesses basic domain knowledge needed to test products.

Requirements

• Excellent working knowledge of software testing methodologies, including the ability to write detailed test plans, test cases, and effectively debug issues.
• Thorough understanding of QA best practices across the software development lifecycle.
• Proven experience contributing to Agile/Scrum development teams, actively participating in sprint activities and quality deliverables.
• Quick and independent learner — demonstrates the ability to identify information sources, grasp new technical concepts, and apply them effectively.
• Self-sufficient and proactive — seeks additional knowledge when needed and avoids repetitive questions.
• Ideally possesses API test automation skills using Python and Pytest, or has the willingness and foundational understanding to grow into automation responsibilities.
• Experience Required: 2–3 years in a Quality Engineering or Software Testing role.

Benefits

• Contract Type: 9-month fixed-term contract
• Location: Remote – New Zealand-based candidates only.