.**QA Engineer****This position is handled as a contract to hire.****Responsibilities**- Ensures comprehensive test plans and test cases are made in coordination with developers working on features.- Proactively identifies potential roadblocks or performance/productivity concerns. Determines, and executes on, strategy for resolution.- Oversee the overall quality of the product line and coordinates with support to quickly address product issues.- Experience with types of testing including regression, smoke, stress and security testing.- Must be delivery focused, with a strong willingness to perform all tasks required to complete the job and meet deadlines.- Determines new and novel approaches to test and regress complicated systems with an eye towards automating everything.- Works with the team's other QA engineers to discuss QA strategies throughout the development processes. Identifies systemic quality deficiencies.- Advocates automated testing techniques from multiple perspectives, including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing.- Promote a quality culture throughout the team.- Work with support teams to triage and understand customer issues.**Qualifications**- 5+ years as a Quality Assurance Engineer.- Experience working within an Agile development environment.- Proven history of advocating and overseeing the implementation of test automation, particularly server API, and web. Handles and delivers on large and complex projects independently with limited guidance from manager/peers.- Experience implementing test infrastructure for a web app, mobile app, or SaaS offering.- Experience tracking quality assurance metrics, for instance, coverage and regression rates.- Use of QA tools (Jira, TestRail, JMeter, SauceLabs, WebdriverIo, Espresso).- Knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full SDLC, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing and operations.- Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or a related technical discipline.**About EarthRanger**EarthRanger is a software solution that helps conservationists make informed operational decisions. We help prevent the poaching of endangered species, fight deforestation, promote human-wildlife coexistence, and advocate for legal protection of wildlife on land or in the oceans. We do this by integrating real-time data from 100+ hardware sensors (animal trackers, radios, vehicles, etc), rangers, patrols, remote imaging, etc and providing visibility and analysis of conservation activities across landscapes and seascapes. More than 350 conservation organizations use EarthRanger today, from iconic national parks like Masai Mara Reserve in Kenya and North Luangwa National Park in Zambia, to species-specific conservation programs like the study of white sharks in New Zealand and Panthera's Mountain Lion Program in Washington state