Title: Software Quality Assurance Engineer Location: Riverton, Utah, United States Job Description: Come Build, Disrupt and Thrive! KēSTA I.T. is seeking a Quality Assurance Engineer for an exciting contract opportunity. Overview: We are seeking a QA Engineer for an immediate opening. The candidate will join a small team, working alongside another QA engineer to provide support on internal applications. The role involves a mix of manual and automated testing. Key Responsibilities: - Perform testing on internal applications. - Conduct manual testing and assist with test case automation. - Create and use AI prompts. - Write test cases and work with JIRA and Confluence. - Execute database queries. Qualifications: - Experience in both manual and automated testing. - Familiarity with JIRA, Confluence, and database queries. - At least 5+ years of experience in both manual and automated software testing. Nice-to-Haves: - Experience with Cypress and Playwright. - Familiarity with the React framework and GraphQL. Work Environment: - The position can be remote. - Standard, flexible business hours. About KēSTA IT: KēSTA I.T. is a premier Utah based technical staffing and consulting services firm. We specialize in temporary and permanent placement of software, hardware, network, cloud, CRM/ERP, data, end user support, web, and executive/leadership based positions on a full time and consulting basis. If you're interested in a role where top performance is rewarded, personal time is valued, and excellence is demanded at every level, we want to talk to you today!  Where do you want to go? We've got the keys! ~ KēSTA I.T.  http://www.kestait.com

• Design end-to-end quality strategy and define long-term technical guidelines for projects; • Architect, validate and evolve complex automation frameworks and accelerators from scratch; • Lead research, adoption and governance of new technologies, including applying Artificial Intelligence (e.g., LLMs and autonomous agents) to optimize testing; • Actively manage, build and evolve Quality Gates, test observability and automated pipelines within complex CI/CD workflows; • Influence system architecture to ensure testability, resilience and high reliability; • Mentor, enable and guide the technical development of other quality engineers on the team; • Interface directly with strategic clients, translating complex quality engineering metrics into business value and providing full transparency on system health, evolution and reliability to the team and decision-makers.

• Assess software quality through manual and automated testing • Find and report bugs and glitches • Work as part of an Agile development team to design and execute test cases across web and mobile applications • Contribute to stable releases through structured and repeatable test processes

• Your mission will be to ensure the quality of deliverables for a high-performance agile team, working across the entire cycle, from requirements refinement to regression. • You will plan, execute, and automate web and mobile tests, preventing defects and ensuring consistent deliveries. • You are expected to work autonomously in defining and executing tests for your tasks, with occasional supervision from leadership. • The challenge: anticipate and prevent defects in a continuously evolving product with a large user base, where each failure has a real impact on the customer's daily life. • Analyze requirements, stories, and layouts during refinement, identifying ambiguities, inconsistencies, and gaps before development (defect prevention); • Plan detailed, clear, and well-structured test scenarios; • Prepare and execute functional, exploratory, regression, and usability tests; • Log, provide evidence for, and track bug fixes with the development team; • Incorporate AI tools into the QA daily workflow to enhance delivery, while maintaining critical judgment over the results generated; • Evolve and maintain the web and mobile automated test suite (Cypress and Maestro); • Use and analyze SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g., ClickHouse and MongoDB) to validate tests; • Estimate, prioritize, and plan your activities in an agile environment; • Support the creation and updating of internal documentation; • Collaborate and maintain clear, constant communication with the team.