About Element 84 

Element 84 is here to help accelerate and scale projects that have a positive impact on people and the planet. We solve challenging problems across a wide range of industries, but our super power is cloud-based geospatial data processing, remote sensing, and Earth science systems. We were founded by husband-and-wife engineers in 2010 and have grown into a skilled group of practitioners building high-performance systems for the biggest corporate and government clients in the world. Our main office is located in Alexandria, VA but we support a large remote workforce from Michigan to Texas and Pennsylvania to California.

A Few Other Things You Should Know

1. Element 84's values are: We Invest in Each Other, We are Reliable, and Our Work Benefits our World.
2. Element 84 works on meaningful projects that are challenging—from a technical, people, and team perspective. We make an impact on large projects through our leadership and expertise, both formal and informal.
3. Element 84 pays well but we care more about working on projects that matter.
4. Element 84 values life outside of work. We offer parental leave for everyone and support each other through family challenges like medical problems, adoptions, and new babies.
5. Element 84 has had a flexible work schedule since our founding in 2010.
6. Element 84 has made a commitment to diversity. We expect the entire team to share that same commitment. 

About You

You are curious about the world, are constantly learning, driven to lead (formally or informally), and have a strong work ethic. You're interested in solving impactful problems in science, medicine, and other projects that have a societal good. You can work independently or with a team, prioritize your projects, and be effective without micromanagement.

You'll care about writing. Our team is remote and written communication is essential. In addition to caring about a well-crafted email and a succinct conference abstract, you understand that good writing is good design and engineering.

Element 84 is seeking an engineer who has specific interests and experience with QA and testing (both automated and manual) to support teams developing exciting and impactful software on our FilmDrop (https://www.element84.com/filmdrop/)  platform. The ideal candidate will be familiar with Agile software development processes and be comfortable working within software development teams performing tasks described below. Beyond project support, the Quality Assurance Engineer will also have an opportunity to contribute to and grow Element 84’s quality practice.

Responsibilities:

• Support testing efforts as a part of Agile / Scrum teams
• Participate in planning and help define acceptance criteria
• Develop, execute and maintain test plans, test scenarios, test suites and test cases
• Create and maintain a collection of Postman requests to cover all API functionality
• Execute and coordinate integration, system, regression and user acceptance testing
• Provide estimates associated with testing activities and tasks
• Define issues and collect data needed to help troubleshoot
• Communicate found issues to Project Manager & development team through JIRA
• Assist with building automated tests
• Track and report on test status using established QA metrics and KPIs for assigned projects
• Provide input on go / no-go decisions for releases
• Support incident recovery after-hours if necessary (additional compensation paid for after-hours availability)

Required Technical Experience

• Using the command line
• Using git for version control including making changes and creating a pull request
• Using git and npm to access and run a project locally
• Creating and maintaining new scripts in Javascript with Cypress for end to end testing
• Creating and maintaining new scripts in Javascript with Jest and Enzyme for React testing
• Running Cypress scripts with the command line

Skills:

• Experience with continuous deployment and software testing
• Experience in Agile / Scrum methodologies
• Experience with software development life cycle (SDLC)
• Overall experience testing a large application with complex business logic
• Using Postman for API testing
• Creating and maintaining a testing suite
• Using JIRA to log and track issues
• Experience writing automated tests. 
  • Cypress
  • React
  • Offline testing using AWS services
  • Jest
  • Familiarity with Node
• Experience with Sonarqube would be a plus
• Experience with Test Project would be a plus
• Experience with geo-spatial data would be a plus

This position may be governed by a federal contract which requires the applicant to be a U.S. Person who is eligible to obtain any required Export Authorization.

Benefits

Paying attention to who we are as a company–people, family members, friends, and colleagues–is our primary focus at Element 84. There are lots of ways to run a company and for us, it's wanting to come to work, being around people we enjoy, taking on big things with people you trust, and sharing our achievements as a team.

• You’ll get credit when things go right and we’ll have your back when things go wrong.
• We only take on work that is challenging and right for us. There are projects we will turn down and the team has a say.
• We may be a small company, but we have big company benefits meant to support the idea that we're here for the long term and happiness comes from much more than where you work. 
• We have an extraordinary retention rate because we hire extraordinary people. We hope that’s you.

Element 84 is an equal opportunity employer, with a company culture that values diversity.

We embrace inclusivity and believe that diversity of thought, perspective, and experience helps us reach higher and think bigger. Element 84 is committed to hiring the best person for the team and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class.