About us

Velvetech is an American global software development company headquartered in Miami, FL, and with an office in Chicago, IL. Velvetech has its developers strategically distributed in 10+ global technical job markets to deliver the best in class software engineering and exceptional client services.

We have 20+ years of experience in software and hardware development for clients all around the world, especially for US clients. As an official Microsoft Gold Partner, our company is listed in the top 5 software development companies in Illinois, USA.

US clients are leading trading and financial organizations, insurance companies, large healthcare associations, pharmaceutical and energy companies, equipment manufacturers, hi-tech startups, etc.

Areas of expertise are consulting, development, implementation, and support of software solutions. We implement modern backend solutions that support microservices architecture with the following technologies: NET Core, Node.js, Java, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ. For the web UI front-end development, we opt for React, or Angular, and for mobile development — Swift, Kotlin, Java. Most of the systems are designed for cloud infrastructures like AWS, Azure, GCP, and heavily rely on Docker, Kubernetes while modern CI/CD is made using GitLab CI or TeamCity. In September 2021, Velvetech LLC received the status of the official Training Provider of the International Institute of Business Analysis. This status gives us the right to conduct regular quality trainings for Business Analysts and anyone performing BA activities regardless their job title.

Principles are based on Agile Methodology, Scrum and Kanban. Various projects coded in GitLab or GitHub are built with multiple coordinated teams, collaborating via Jira, Confluence, MS Teams, and Slack. Velvetech constantly follows the Tech trends and actively cooperates with startups in such breakthrough areas as Machine Learning, the Internet of Things, Blockchain, FPGA, and AI.
Responsibilities

If you like assessing the quality of specifications and technical design documents in order to ensure timely, relevant, and meaningful feedback, we can make your dream come true – you will be our QA Engineer, working fully remotely from your home. You will be working with a WMS module within which the rules/policies for item processing will be created. In particular, creating and testing rules for item management. We are ready to provide the templates for creating consistent and clear documentation.

Testing current products and identifying deficiencies while suggesting the solutions

Investigating product quality in order to make improvements to achieve better customer satisfaction

Planing, creating and managing the overall quality planning strategy with the team

Collaborate with the product development team to ensure consistent project execution

Identify quality assurance process bottleneck and suggest actions for improvement

Participating in daily and other meetings

Tracking all bugs and communicate issues to ensure their resolution before the release

Additional possibilities:
Growth and development on a dynamic project

Opportunity to cooperate with American designers, skill up UX/UI

Migration between projects

Possibility to work remotely

Requirements

Understanding of the software development life cycle (SDLC)

Knowledge of fundamental testing principles, methodologies, and testing types (e.g., functional and regression testing)

Hands-on experience in creating and maintaining test plans, bug tracking, and monitoring fixes

1+ years of manual testing experience

Proficiency with issue tracking systems (e.g., Jira)

Familiarity with working in Agile environments and understanding specific features of testing for Agile projects

Experience using test management tools.

Strong analytical, communication, and team collaboration skills.

Attention to detail, accuracy, and ability to learn and adapt quickly.

AI related requirements

Proficiency in AI-driven QA tools for test case generation and analysis is required to support quality assurance processes

Candidates should have strong prompt engineering skills to optimize AI-driven testing outputs effectively

Understanding of AI tool boundaries and the ability to apply sound judgment and critical thinking in QA activities

Utilize AI to debug, refine quality assurance processes, and improve documentation for enhanced reliability and productivity

Additional experience will be considered as an advantage:
Knowledge of SQL, mainly ability to write simple queries

Experience with Swagger

Understanding of working principles of applications on microservice architecture

Experience in web and mobile testing

ISTQB Foundation Level Certification or equivalent.

Benefits

Velvetech is in the TOP 5 development companies in Illinois, USA

You have FLEXIBLE working conditions and a COOPERATIVE environment

Competitive salary

Many CHALLENGING and exciting projects with new opportunities and learning

GROWTH opportunities, skills and competencies improvement, and professional certification

In-company TRAINING (English, Software / DevOps / Project management / Design / Business)

Our team

We are a friendly team of 150+ professionals where everyone is able to achieve high results and grows professionally not only due to their own knowledge and skills but also with the support of colleagues. Values that we highly appreciate are high performance, responsibility, respect, and loyalty . In order to have a highly motivated team, Velvetech invests in their people, additional education, certification, and others. You choose your career path and we are here to support you!

People work together in harmony, encouraging each other to continuously learn, progress, and pursue perfection. Our employees enjoy working as we turn challenges into advantages to share success with each other.

You have a chance to become a part of a friendly and professional team that creates robust software solutions to deliver maximum value to our international clients.