QA Engineer

Sketch is a design platform with an award-winning native Mac app and browser-based collaboration tools. Over a million people use our product to create their best work. And now, we’re looking for QA Engineers to join us.

 

As a Quality Engineer at Sketch, you'll be responsible for writing manual and automated tests for new features, focusing on our quickly evolving Presentation team and related services, as well as helping to continuously improve our QA processes. You will work closely with frontend, backend, Mac developers, designers, and product managers to guarantee top quality in our product and in our engineering process.

 

About you

 

You are a systems thinker. You keep a high-level view of all the parts involved in ensuring the quality of a project: the tech stack, the people, the testing frameworks and their trade-offs.

 

You value team work, knowledge sharing, autonomy and ownership. You care are about your team, and contribute to an environment of psychological safety and healthy work culture.

 

You advocate for quality and testability, getting involved in the early stages of product lifecycle, pairing with developers on defining and implementing the best quality standards and testing practices.

 

You love building user facing features, and related to this team's mission: to provide a better viewing experience to all our users, from designers to customers and stakeholders.

 

You enjoy writing excellent documentation and invest in ways to share knowledge with others and to spread the best practices within the wider QA group, aiming to continuously improve processes across the company.

 

About Sketch

 

We’re a company of diverse thinkers and doers who take pride in always improving our product. We share a vision and commitment to help each other — and our customers — create great work.

 

We’ve been fully remote since day one. It’s meant we can bring together incredible people from around the world. You’ll join over 75 Mac, backend, frontend, QA and infrastructure engineers in the Technology team, based everywhere from Scotland to South Africa, and Lithuania to the US.

 

We encourage our people to be themselves and embrace what makes us unique. We value different backgrounds, perspectives and experience, and we strongly believe this is key to achieving outstanding results.

 

We work asynchronously as much as we can. Our team communicates mostly in writing, using Slack and GitHub. When we need it, we also have video calls. We have a culture of collaboration and knowledge-sharing, and we provide the environment and the tools you need to do your best work.

Essentials for the job

• You are passionate about software, testing, and quality, with an eye for detail.

• You can manually debug issues throughout the full stack, from frontend to backend APIs and Mac native applications.

• You have experience with end-to-end testing in the frontend, and HTTP APIs and you are familiar with Cypress.

• Experience with CI/CD environments such as CircleCI, GitHub actions, .. as they relate to test. Basic Docker knowledge is a plus.

• You have excellent communication skills and written English, are self-motivated, and comfortable working in a remote position.

• Based in GMT-3 to GMT-5 timezones.

We care about your wellbeing and your professional success, so we offer you:

• Full time employment, with a flexible schedule

• International environment and working culture

• As many vacation days as you need

• Whatever training you need to develop in your job

• The hardware you need

• The option to work anywhere in GMT-3 to GMT-5 timezones.

• Company equity

• Paid family leave

• An annual company meetup (when possible)

Even if you're not able to tick all of these boxes, we would still love to hear from you.