About Midwestern:
As a QA Engineer at Midwestern Interactive, you’ll be a contracted Midwestern team member embedded in product teams that range from early‑stage startups to global enterprises—working remotely anywhere in LATAM in US time zones. We believe every great vision needs a great team, and for 13 years we’ve supplied the engineers, designers, and product leaders who flex with each client’s roadmap.
Proof? 120 + customers served, $450 M raised by clients, Inc. Best Workplace honors, and 90 % voluntary retention over the past three years. Our mission, “Serve Each Other, Serve Our Clients,” guides both the way we deliver and the way we support you, letting you focus on building products that matter. Ready to make an impact? Let’s talk.
Details:
- Work remote
- Contract opportunities can vary in a number of ways, including:
- Hours: Full-time, part-time, or project-specific hours
- Length: small projects to long-term evergreen needs
- Type: typically 1099 contracts, open to C2C for candidates with their own LLC or S-Corp
- Industry: Saas products in a wide range of verticals
- Seeking English-speaking nearshore LATAM-based candidates who can work with US-based clients.
Responsibilities:
- Test current products and identify deficiencies
- Suggest solutions to identified product problems
- Investigate product quality in order to make improvements to achieve better customer satisfaction
- Plan, create, and manage the overall Quality Planning strategy
- Collaborate with the Product Development team to ensure consistent project execution
- Identify quality assurance process bottleneck and suggest actions for improvement
- Oversee continuous improvement projects
- Collect quality data
- Creating detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases
Requirements:
Our clients vary in their use of testing languages and frameworks. We know you won't be an expert in all of them, but we're looking for QA engineers with:
- 5+ years experience in quality control, software quality assurance, or other related fields.
- Experience writing automation tests using:
- Programming languages like: Python, Java, C#, Javascript, Ruby, PHP
- Test automation tools like: Selenium, Appium, TestNG, JUnit, Katalon Studio, Robot
- Other technologies like:
- Version control systems (Git, Mercurial)
- Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) tools (Jenkins, CircleCI, Travis CI)
- Bug tracking systems (Jira, Bugzilla, MantisBT)
- Database query languages (SQL, NoSQL)
- API testing tools (Postman, SoapUI)
- Integrated development environments (IDEs) (Visual Studio, Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA)
- Detailed eye to catch design flaws, spelling errors, and broken features
- Hands-on experience with both white box and black box testing
- Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process
- Familiarity with SEO, SEM, and Google Analytics is a bonus
- Understanding of UI and UX for both website and application development
- Experience working with US-based clients.
- C1 (Advanced) level English proficiency.
Hiring Process:
- Application: Complete our questionnaire and attach your resume.
- Preliminary Interview: We’ll get to know each other during a 15-30 minute call with our Talent Acquisition team.
- Technical Interview: Meet with our Engineering team to discuss more technical specifics.
- Contractors chosen to join our talent network will be added to our Slack channel where they'll have first eyes on new incoming opportunities with Midwestern clients. Client interview processes may vary.
Previous & Current Clients:
Equal Employment Opportunity Policy:
It is the continuing policy of Midwestern Interactive to provide equal opportunity employment to all employees and applicants, 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 legally protected status. This policy applies to all employment decisions, including those in connection with recruitment, hiring, placement, training, promotion, compensation, benefits, termination, and all other terms and conditions of employment.