Who We Are

In 2021, Poatek was acquired by WillowTree, an award-winning digital product consultancy recognized as one of the fastest growing and best places to work in the United States. Now a TELUS International company, with offices across the globe, we continue to partner with the world’s leading brands, such as Fox, Capital One, HBO, PepsiCo, Domino’s and more, to design, build, and transform their digital products and strategies. We’re looking to grow our Poatek offices in Brazil with top talent excited to collaborate with team members across the globe to deliver innovative solutions for our clients.

Location and Flexibility

This is a hybrid role, which we’ve termed Work from Near (WFN). This model requires the ability to work in a hybrid mode from one of our offices in São Paulo or Porto Alegre, in office throughout the week based on team needs, while still providing the flexibility to work remotely on other days. Our WFN culture is designed to foster in-person innovation, collaboration, and connection with team members local and visiting from other global offices.

The Opportunity

Poatek/ WillowTree is hiring for empathetic, curious engineers to join our growing team. We work in a dynamic and fulfilling atmosphere and help our clients’ build robust mobile and web applications. Our Test Engineering technologies vary by project, so we value flexibility and willingness to learn. Our goal is to build amazing solutions for our clients, and ensuring a quality experience is a crucial part of how we deliver on that promise.

 

Responsibilities

• Confidently deliver high-quality test strategies and implementation, applying critical thinking to products, requirements, and processes.
• Definite test strategies according to each client and business needs.
• Create and write test plans, defining how tests will be structured and communicated.
• Work closely with clients
• Have professional test engineering experience— we’re thinking at least 5 years
• Apply various types of testing methodologies and work collaboratively on implementation
• Help mentor and coach a project team towards shared goals and outcomes
• Navigate difficult conversations by providing constructive feedback to teams and clients
• You’ll identify obstacles to ensure quality, improve our user experience and how we build tests
• Self-aware of limitations, yet curious to learn new solutions while being receptive to constructive feedback from teammates
• You’ll guide your team to understand and work through changing priorities by bringing positive energy 
• Communicate and simplify complex problems in order to foster understanding across multidisciplinary teams 
• Apply your knowledge and findings at an organizational scale

Qualifications

• Understand the various types of testing methodologies and can work collaboratively on implementation
• Effectively communicate your testing approach and decisions to clients and teammates
• Have professional programming experience — we’re thinking at least 5 years
• Can architect robust automated testing suites across different platforms
• Experience using  Cypress.io, TestCafe, Selenium, native mobile test frameworks for iOS or Android.
• You follow and advocate for SDLC processes
• Embody a growth mindset and are committed to continuously learning new technologies and honing your craft
• Are motivated by solving problems and finding creative solutions
• Believe in autonomy and taking initiative
• Can recommend solutions for a particular platform's problem
• Consider 'big picture' perspectives and can successfully balance business goals or technical constraints
• Inspire others to write code that is durable, secure, scalable, always up and running
• Are eager to share your knowledge with teammates through mentorship, code reviews, and pair programming sessions
• Have strong debugging and troubleshooting skills
• Have worked with relational and/or NoSQL databases.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience testing for accessibility with tools such as screen readers and an appreciation for inclusive and accessible UI implementations
• Experience writing and executing tests for SEO, or Analytics
• Familiarity with CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins, CircleCI, Fastlane) and experience setting up deployment pipelines
• Some experience with load, performance, penetration, or security testing
• Engagement in thought leadership (Blog articles, Git Gists, Stack Overflow answers)
• Familiarity with one CMS: EpiServer; Sitefinity; AEM

Why Poatek?

What We Offer:

• Be part of an international innovative consultancy with a human-centered and culture with opportunities for ownership and professional growth
• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Opportunity to work on innovative agile projects with other high-performing, passionate team members from all over the globe
• Collaborative work environment that encourages continuous learning and professional development
• Flexible work hours and autonomy
• Voucher for health activities, food allowance, in-office snacks, drinks, and games

If you love IT as much as we do, we look forward to meeting you