QA Engineer

About the role

Firstbase.io is on a mission to build an “All-In-One Company OS” to enable global founders to launch, operate, and grow their businesses using Firstbase’s suite of products.

We are hiring a QA Engineer (Latam) to be an important member of our small and nimble product team. You will be expected to wear many hats and help make influential product decisions. You should obsess over delivering the best customer experience to a global market of founders, ensuring simplicity and clarity.

You will work closely with engineering leadership, product managers, and other stakeholders, ensuring quality in the technical solutions delivered to reach business objectives.

About Firstbase.io

Firstbase.io is building an all-in-one Company OS to help define how founders across the globe launch, manage, and grow their businesses.

More than twenty thousand founders from over 180 countries have used our incorporation product, Firstbase Start, to launch their startups. For many founders, "firstbase.io" has become what they type into their address bars when considering incorporating a business. 

We are backed by Y Combinator & our team, investors, and advisors include people from Apple, Gusto, Carta, Wise, Plaid, and many other great companies.

Why you should join

Firstbase is much more than just incorporation. Our team is dedicated to building products & solving some of the startups’ hardest problems, with a particular focus in:

• Democratizing access to financial infrastructure

• Automating tasks every founder faces when running a business

• Making tools and resources more accessible to everyone, everywhere

• Building integrated solutions for founders and removing friction

• Delivering opportunities to traditionally overlooked founders and companies

• Democratizing access to knowledge

Join us on a mission to help more companies succeed!

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for risk-takers with diverse experience able to provide fearless feedback.

You will have the following duties

• Create detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases

• Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities

• Design, develop and execute automation scripts using open source tools

• Identify, record, document thoroughly, and track bugs

• Perform thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved

• Develop and apply testing processes for new and existing products to meet client needs

• Liaise with internal teams (e.g. developers and product managers) to identify system requirements

• Monitor debugging process results

• Investigate the causes of non-conforming software and train users to implement solutions

• Track quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and open defect counts

• Stay up-to-date with new testing tools and test strategies
  

You should meet the following requirements

• Be based in a LatAm country (although the position is remote)

• 3+ years of experience in a software quality assurance role at a high-growth startup

• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes

• Experience in writing clear, concise, and comprehensive test plans and test cases

• Hands-on experience with both white box and black box testing

• Hands-on experience with automated testing tools, especially with Playwright 

• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting

• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process

• Experience with performance and/or security testing is a plus

• Experience with API testing, specifically with Postman

• Proficient in both oral and written English communication

Some perks you might enjoy

• Competitive salary and equity: We lean on some of the best market data to ensure that we offer the most competitive compensation.

• Hybrid work environment: We work both remotely & from our offices in New York City, optimizing for collaboration while providing flexibility to team members.

• 21 days of PTO + birthday off: We offer flexibility to allow people to relax and recharge whenever they need it.

• Build your ideal work setup: We understand that how you work is extremely important, so we provide a stipend to set yourself up for success here at Firstbase.

• Health benefits: Firstbase offers health insurance reimbursements to both US and international employees.

• Learning and development: We provide a stipend together with resources to help people grow and develop in their careers.

• Amazing annual bonus: Every team at Firstbase has a bonus structure that usually accounts for 10% of OTE.

The stack

Our product is built using PHP, Symfony, Vue, PostgreSQL, AWS. We also use Redis, Vue Router, Vuex, Docker Compose, Docker, GitLab CI, and Graylog, and some third-party APIs like Stripe. We use Slack, Clubhouse, Notion, Whimsical, Figma, and G Suite to collaborate and build together.

If you think you're unqualified or don't meet all the requirements for this role, we encourage you to still apply. We celebrate diverse candidates, adjacent experiences, and simply put, good people who want to build great things. If that's you, then we'd love to meet.