About Caper

Caper (跃氪) is a pioneering company in retail automation solutions and smart hardware technologies under Instacart, a North American NASDAQ-listed company. Its principal product, the AI-based Smart Shopping Cart, is ranked among the top 2 in the industry and has served the top 3 grocery organizations in North America.

Its parent company, Instacart, is a renowned online fresh food delivery platform internationally. Over the past decade, it has served more than 600 retail brands including Walmart and Costco across North America, covering over 55,000 physical supermarkets and convenience stores.

Welcome to visit our official website: www.caper.ai

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OVERVIEW

Caper is one of the critical pillars of Instacart’s new Connected Store technology. Caper offers smart shopping carts powered by deep learning and computer vision to enable a seamless grab-and-go retail experience.

ABOUT THE JOB

You will be joining a dynamic team consisting of manual and automation test engineers working on cutting-edge technology. You will validate software and hardware fixes. Participate in various tests such as functional, error-handling, exploratory, performance, etc. Communicate your findings effectively by writing detailed bug reports. Assist in automating test cases. Be an integral part in how QA, DEV, Designers, and PM organizations work together following an agile methodology to ensure the delivery of high-quality products for a great customer experience.

Responsibilities:

• Perform functional, regression, integration, smoke, E2E, exploratory, performance, stress/longevity testing.
• Create and maintain test cases for new and existing features using TestRail.
• Daily “bug-hunting” - always on the lookout for defects, usability improvements, cosmetic “eye-sores”, etc. and properly track them for resolution.
• Understand success metrics for your projects and proactively execute.
• Will work closely with engineering, product management, cross-department partner teams within an Agile environment using JIRA as our backbone for collaboration.
• Participate in team meetings and release management activities.
• Write and provide valuable feedback on technical documentation for features, processes, training, etc.
• Proactively escalate issues about projects and/or features your team owns.
• Question the rationale and scope of projects and offer alternatives.
• Assist in automating regression test cases to help build out our automation coverage.
• Launch experiments and analyze results with new test tools to test more effectively and efficiently.
• Prepare status reports highlighting wins, milestones, risks, and gating issues.
• Proactively work to troubleshoot, solve, and dig deeper into issues.

Necessary Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent work experience.
• 2+ years of industry experience in Software QA.
• Strong knowledge of QA concepts and methodologies.
• Experience with Mobile and Web Applications testing.
• Experience with testing Android OS.
• Experience writing test plans and test cases for consumer facing applications.
• Ability to troubleshoot and triage issues, prioritize accordingly, and offer a resolution.
• Knowledge of at least one programming or scripting language.
• An innovative self-starter that can simplify complex problems while having relentlessly high standards and serving as an internal advocate for our customers.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, used to drive an engineering culture of continuous improvement and ownership of quality.
• Ability to multi-task on multiple products and projects.
• Strong analytical skills, self-motivation, and attention to detail.
• Desire to break or find bugs in code using strategized approaches.
• Highly effective communication, both verbal and written.
• Must be fluent in English: Speaking, Writing, and Reading.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience testing related products and functions, including hardware products and POS systems including payment terminals, barcode scanners, etc.
• Exposure to MongoDB and/or MySQL.
• Familiar with Gitlab or Github.
• Familiar with analytic tools: Datadog (or similar)
• Exposure to automation tooling such as Appium, Espresso, Selenium (or similar)
• Experience interacting with RESTful APIs and skilled in Rest Assured, Postman (or similar)
• Exposure to AWS and microservices.
• Experience with JIRA and TestRail.
• Experience with networking is a plus.

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We offer a competitive salary package

At Caper, the total compensation consists of base salary and equity in the form of RSUs (Restricted Stock Units). The job description shows only the base salary component, but we will additionally grant RSUs as a part of our total rewards program (inquiries are welcome).

Caper has our own salary philosophy. The final salary of an offer will have a direct connection with the candidate's experience and skill level presented during the interview.

What benefits we aim to provide:

New employees can enjoy 10 days of paid annual leave, 10 days of paid sick leave, and male employees will have an additional 4 weeks of paid paternity leave.

Annual learning fund, annual personal living fund, annual team building activities, health & medical coverage, and more.

Who should join us!

We are looking for driven individuals who thrive in a fast-paced engineering/product environment, are passionate about product and improving team performance, and feel comfortable pushing the limits of what is possible.

We welcome every individual who is direct and open to facilitate our adorable no-political culture.

Every day we solve incredibly complex problems to create an experience for our users that is absolutely magical. Join us!