Job Description

Our mission is to redefine the home experience with tech and services to create a smarter, greener, safer home that saves our customers money every month.

Summary:

The Vivint Core Apps team is seeking a QA Engineer to help us release quality software. This is a technical position where you have the opportunity to work with great technologies, collaborate with other engineers, and help ensure defect free deliveries.

Required Skills, Experience & Education:

• Understanding of operating systems
• Basic Linux experience
• Familiar with agile development methodologies
• Familiar with software testing principles
• Understanding of cloud computing and distributed systems
• Familiar with cloud deployment/monitoring tools
• Ability to make decisions and perform risk analysis to maximize coverage based on risk and time
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Demonstrated knowledge of writing test plans and test cases and have a quality mindset
• Well organized, creative, and detail-oriented, a self-starter who is capable of identifying problems, taking initiative to propose solutions, and successfully executing plans.

Preferred Skills, Experience & Education:

• Passionate about gadgets and smart devices
• Python experience
• Cloud performance/load testing experience
• Reliability testing experience
• Familiar with microservices and API contract testing
• Familiarity with networking and databases
• Some experience testing mobile apps

Learn about the Vivint Culture and why it’s a great place to grow your career!

Here are some highlighted perks you should ask us about:

• Free daily lunch and drinks on site
• Paid holidays and flexible paid time away
• Employee/Friends/Family Discounts
• Onsite health clinic, gym, gaming tables
• Medical/dental/vision/life coverage & 24/7 Medical Hotline
• 401(k) + Employer Match
• Employee Resource Groups

WORKING CONDITIONS:

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

SAFETY:

Vivint enforces a safety culture whereby all employees have the responsibility for continuously developing and maintaining a safe working environment. Each new employee is responsible for completing all training requirements. Additionally, the employee must accept they have responsibility for maintaining the safety of themselves, their co-workers, and the public. Employee must adhere to all written and verbal instructions, promptly report and correct all hazards or unsafe conditions, question non-standard operations or unmitigated hazards, and provide feedback to management on all safety issues.