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 for our team, our family members, our clients, our subcontractors, and our vendors.
Fearless Digital 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:
- Life-friendly schedules
- Family-friendly workplace
- PTO allowance (not accrued so you get it up front!) We believe in taking time off to be well and thrive. That's why we offer 14 days of PTO, 8.75 days of sick leave, 11 federal holidays, your birthday (floating day), jury duty, and bereavement.
- Up 12 weeks of FMLA paid at 100%
- 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 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
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
- AL, FL, GA, TN Residents: $100,817 (min) - $131,062 (mid) - $161,307(max)
- NC Residents: $103,935 (min) - $135,115 (mid) - $166,296 (max)
- DE, MD, PA, TX, VA Residents: $109,132 (min) - $141,871 (mid) - $174,610 (max)
- DC Residents: $122,643 (min) - $159,436 (mid) - $196,229 (max)
- CA & NY Residents: $126,800 (min) - $164,841 (mid) - $202,881 (max)
Location:
- In-person, hybrid, and remote options are available. Our offices are located in Baltimore.
Fearless is looking for a Test Engineer III to add to our diverse team of 250+ employees (and counting!).
What you’ll be doing
The Test Engineer III 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:
Organizational and Leadership Role
- Develop and execute manual and automated 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 other test engineers, 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.
Functional Role
- 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.
- Writes test plans, test cases, test documentation, and bug reports.
- Displays personal leadership and works collaboratively with others to create a positive team environment.
Essential Skills, Experience, or Competencies
Must-Have Skills
- Proficient with JUnit and Cypress.
- Demonstrated experience with both manual and automated testing.
- Proficient with context-driven test methodologies to formulate appropriate strategies based on specific details of each project.
- Proficient with writing and refining test plans and strategies.
- 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.
- Proficient with deriving test steps with minimal information.
- Basic understanding of one software language, such as Node.js, Java, or Python.
- Experience driving quality through process.
- Experience communicating cross-functionally, with clients, and across management levels in formal and informal settings.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, Mathematics, or similar technology-related degree.
Icing-on-the-Cake Skills
- Experience as a government contractor or previous work with a government agency.
- Demonstrated experience with Zephyr test management tool.
- Demonstrated experience leading a team or other test engineers.
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.
