Quezon City, Philippines

QA Engineer

Engineering

White Widget is a leading-edge software design and development studio. We're a fast-growing team with a diverse set of backgrounds and skills. Quality is the backbone of everything we ship, and we're looking for talent that can play a critical role in the success of projects both internally and for clients. Each QA engineer at White Widget takes ownership of quality across the entire product lifecycle. We don't just test at the end. We're involved early, from requirements gathering to deployment, making sure quality is baked in from the start.

Responsibilities

Each engineer understands the top-level problem and what the client’s business needs are and goes the extra mile to communicate issues and clarify understandings. We are building a team that is empowered to collaborate with one another and ask for help when we needed. Your role plays a huge impact. We involve engineers early on, from project estimations to technical roadmaps. We make sure you’re in the loop and have a voice at every turn. You’ll help us innovate and drive improvements to our existing products from feature development to client customization to code refactoring / improvement We don’t micromanage. You’re a smart cookie and we trust you to do the job at your fullest. We’re geeks at heart and love learning new things and getting challenged. We do regular upskilling and skill sharing, so you’re kept up-to-date on the best practices of the industry.

Requirements

We appreciate that you might not have the same stack as us, and we welcome great engineers in all forms. Working knowledge of key Computer Science concepts (object-oriented programming, unit testing, data structures, and multi-threaded development) and the flexibility to work across a breadth of frameworks Understand the work it takes to build, automate, and secure application configuration, deployment, and provisioning services Experience with build and management tools (Git) and security principles Ability to analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various data persistence layers Experience with continuous integration and deployment automation tools such as Jenkins, Salt, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Travis CI, or equivalent Experience with Google Cloud and Amazon AWS, or configuring bare servers on Linode, Digital Ocean, to serve performant websites and APIs Understand that security and DevOps go hand-in-hand: knowledge of OWASP a plus

Perks

Flexible hours

Competitive salary Even more competitive game nights and board games Healthcare coverage and fitness benefits Upskilling days, online library access Quarterly bonuses