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Test Engineer II

Fearless

Job Description

About Fearless Digital

Fearless Digital builds software with a soul. As a division inside Fearless, we're part of its digital services integrator model to unlock the power of organizations, people and tech. Our division designs, engineers, and delivers digital solutions to solve problems and drive impact. Using iterative development cycles, we minimize risk for our customers and efficiently deliver intuitive and responsive technology. In this way, we help set the stage for tech to work better for people. That's not our only goal, though. We also strive to create a purple culture that makes our team members excited to come to work every day. We take a holistic approach to our people’s well-being, and our culture and benefits are designed to support our people in working the way they like best. We encourage our people to pursue their passions, both in and out of the office. With flexible schedules, continuing education support, and a family-friendly work environment, we’ve created a culture that allows our team to thrive professionally and personally.

Fearless believes in equal opportunity employment. We won’t discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, gender, nationality, age, religion, disability, military status, or sexual orientation. As a company and as individuals, we’re committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for our team, our family members, our clients, our subcontractors, and our vendors.

Fearless Digital Benefits

Benefits Eligibility:

Full-time team members are eligible for benefits upon beginning employment at Fearless
Part-time, intern, 1099 team members are not eligible for Fearless benefits

Our people make us who we are. We believe that every member of the Fearless team has something to share, and we value the unique viewpoint you’ll bring to our community. But we value your community, too, so we offer fulfilling work that stays in balance with the rest of life. Because everyone has different needs, desires, and goals, our benefits offer the choices and flexibility that our team members need to live well and succeed. Here are a few highlights of our benefits package, for full-time team members, exclusively:

Life-friendly schedules
Family-friendly workplace
We cover 100% of your premium for our medical HSA plan + the deductible portion of HSA contributions, 80% of your premium for our HMO or PPO plans, and offer competitive dependent coverage. We cover 100% of dental and vision premiums for you and your dependents and offer medical and dependent care FSA options. We also offer life insurance, short- and long-term disability coverage, and legal planning and support insurance.
Tech, education / training, and wellness allowances
Safe Harbor 401(k) plan with employer contributions (current match = 4%) and immediate vesting
Referral bonus: Bring your friends! If someone you refer is hired, you’ll get a bonus of $6–12k!
Total Pet Plan
Employee Assistance Program
Up 12 weeks of FMLA paid at 100%
PTO is provided to team members as a lump sum allowance, not an accrual. PTO is prorated based on your start date (see table below) on a quarterly basis (with tenure-based increases), 8.75 days of sick leave, 11 federal holidays, their birthday (8 hours), up to 15 days for jury duty, and up to 3 days (24 hours) of bereavement leave per eligible instance.

Start Date	PTO Allocation	Allocation Timing
Jan 1 - March 31	100%	January
April 1 - June 30	75%	April
July 1 - Sept 30	50%	July
Oct 1 - Dec 31	25%	October

Compensation

Our Compensation System is designed to reward remarkable work, grow your impact and support the whole “you” over the course of your career.

We believe in paying people fairly, so we've established a compensation model aimed to ensure everyone at Fearless — regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, nationality, or negotiation skills — is given equal pay for equal work. Our approach to compensation is intended to ensure our total package serves all of your needs and includes base pay, medical and other benefits, performance rewards, 401k matching, plus a few perks (tech and wellness reimbursement programs)! Our salary ranges are determined based on role, level and location and provide team members salary growth within a salary grade over time. Team members automatically progress within a salary range through annual increases (given to reward service at Fearless) or merit increases (given to reward and individual's demonstrated performance and growth within the position). Fearless team members are also eligible for discretionary bonuses based on company performance.

The salary ranges for this position based on location are listed below. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified as a part of our annual salary range review.

Salary Range

Fearless is looking for a Test Engineer II to add to our diverse team of 250+ employees (and counting!).

What you’ll be doing

The Test Engineer II is responsible for supporting all aspects of software testing for their team. They leverage their engineering skills and testing mindset to build the necessary systems for the team to deliver a quality product. This role should work independently within the testing context but be highly collaborative with the engineering team.

Responsibilities and Contributions

Functional Role

Develop and execute software test plans to identify software problems and their causes.
Defines project-level test strategies that align with the organization and quality objectives.
Facilitates conversations with team members and Product Owners to outline quality mission and objectives.
Advocates for the test strategy with the Engineers and teaches Engineers to perform good tests and build effective automation.
Coaches and supports the team in authoring automated tests for a variety of scenarios, like data validation, feature testing, and performance testing.
Reviews, writes, and updates automated tests as appropriate for effective coaching of team members.
Collaborates with Engineers and Designers to build test plans that focus on feature delivery and usability.
Collaborates with Software Developers and senior team members to understand the technical implementation of features and to advocate for and monitor the implementation of testing strategies.
Plans various types of testing, including systems and integration testing, regression testing, performance and load testing, compliance testing, and release testing.
Performs manual exploratory testing, both on their own and with the team, as appropriate for the project test strategy.
Assists with software debugging issues and performs root cause analysis to identify problems in design and/or implementation.
Ability to operate and manage work, strategically reason, and build relationships and influence others.

Essential Skills, Experience, or Competencies

Other Must-Have Skills

Proficient with context-driven test methodologies to formulate appropriate strategies based on specific details of each project.
Proficient developing project-level test strategies and building test plans that define why, how, and when testing principles are applied, including the use of exploratory testing and automation.
Demonstrated ability to understand how a system works and identify key risks to quality.
Basic understanding of automation tools like Cypress, Selenium, Jest, JUnit, JMeter, etc in order to review and write automated tests with the team.
Basic understanding of one software language, such as Node.js, Java, or Python.
Experience driving quality through process.
Demonstrated work experience with Playwright.
Demonstrated work experience with manual and automated testing.
Experience with unit testing.
Experience with black box testing.
Experience with boundary testing.
Experience communicating cross-functionally and across management levels in formal and informal settings.
Ability to acquire public trust clearance.
Previous experience working with state, local, or federal government agency and/or a government contractor.

Icing-on-the-Cake Skills

BS in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, Mathematics, or similar technology-related degree.
Demonstrated ability to facilitate quality discovery and planning sessions like risk-storming.
Demonstrated ability to think creatively and challenge assumptions.
Demonstrated experience with writing unit tests.

So, what’s next?

Over the years, we’ve honed our interview process to help ensure that every employee we hire is the right fit for us and that we’re the right fit for them. If we think you’re a good fit, we’ll get in touch and start scheduling your interviews! Depending on the role's/project's requirements, the interview process may include some differences. At the minimum

Introductory Interview: This is where you and your recruiter will build rapport, explore your career and educational background, discuss salary expectations, role requirements, and set expectations for the interview process, specific to the position of interest.
Technical Interview (Skills Fit): This is where we get into the nitty gritty of the project. During the Technical Interview, you’ll be interviewed by the technical team to dig more into your background and technical capabilities.
Business Interview: At this point, you’ve made it to the final frontier! The Business Interview is when you’ll meet with Fearless leadership to dot the i’s, cross the t’s, and determine whether or not we’ll be moving forward with the hiring process.

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