Quality Advocate L3

Remote

Full Time

Experienced

Quality Advocate L3
Remote | Product and Development | Full-Time

WHO WE ARE

Ncontracts provides comprehensive vendor, compliance, risk management, and lending compliance solutions to a rapidly expanding customer base of over 4,000 financial institutions in the United States. We help financial institutions achieve their compliance and risk management goals with a powerful combination of user-friendly, cloud-based software and expert services. Our solution suite encompasses the complete lifecycle of risk, including vendor management, enterprise risk management, business continuity, compliance, audit and findings management, and cybersecurity. The company was named to the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies in America for the fifth consecutive year. For more information visit www.ncontracts.com or follow the company on LinkedIn and Twitter.

This role is a contributor role working on a small, cross-functional team made up of 2-3 developers, a product manager, and 1 Quality Advocate. The Quality Advocate is not solely responsible for quality on a team but should be always engaged in activity that will promote quality software development. That means your day to day could include things like helping define features from a user’s perspective, writing test cases anyone on the team can execute, or helping write automated tests with developers. This position reports to Software Development leadership.

A successful L3 Quality Advocate at Ncontracts will:

Help their team produce high quality software, suggesting appropriate tool and process changes when necessary
Ensure that their time is spent on tasks are spent primarily on shift-left tasks like test case writing and user story definition
Help with bug diagnosis and analysis
Work as a collaborative teammate, making sure everyone understands what high quality means for their current work
Stay up to date on processes and tooling for improving quality
Participate in learning and growth opportunities
Be available to assist with release activities

An L3 Quality Advocate at Ncontracts is expected to exhibit the following behaviors:

Honesty: Whether reviewing another developer’s code, participating in retrospectives, or working with your team on what direction to take a project we expect openness and honesty. Honesty creates trust, and we believe that all great teams are built on trust.
Low Ego: Have confidence in your skills and experience but be willing to alter your opinions and ideas when another, better one comes along. Have strong opinions, but loosely held.
Instinctive troubleshooting: Rapid diagnosis and resolution of bugs or problems is essential to a productive team, and we expect our Quality Advocates to have significant knowledge from experience to bring to bear.
Deep Curiosity: You’ll be expected to research new and exciting technologies, perfect the use of existing technologies, and discover new libraries and tools that can effect change across the organization.
Motivation: You’re a natural self-starter, and you enjoy solving problems. You are capable of jumping in with minimal instruction and figuring out what should be done.

It’s expected you’ll have the following skills and experience:

Experience with diverse testing methodologies and tools
Experience writing test cases and helping to craft acceptance criteria
Experience working on a cross-functional team to deliver software
Strong written and verbal communication skills

It’s helpful for you to have at least some of the following:

ISTQB certifications
Experience working with, in, and around horizontally scaling systems
Experience with UI automation tools like selenium or cypress
Functional knowledge of SQL as a tool for analysis and debugging
Familiarity with systems integration
Experience in SaaS based companies
An automation mindset

WE OFFER

A fun, fast-paced work environment
Responsible PTO Plan that meets or exceeds state and local medical and family leave laws
11 paid holidays
Community and social events to keep you connected and engaged
Mental Health Benefits
Medical, Dental and Vision insurance
Company-paid Group Life Insurance, Short- and Long-Term Disability
Flexible Spending Account & Health Savings Account
Aflac Benefits – Critical Illness, Cancer Protection, & Hospital Choice
Pet Insurance
401 (k) with company match with eligibility on Day 1 of employment
2 Paid Volunteer Time Off Days
And much more!

Compensation Information

Pursuant to state and local law disclosure requirements, the pay range for this role, with final offer amount dependent on education, skills, experience and location is $70,000 to $90,000 per year. This position may be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive award. The incentive award amount is dependent upon company performance and your personal performance and is not guaranteed.

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Ncontracts provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

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