Test Evangelist (aka Test Advocate)

• Create compelling technical content (blogs, videos, webinars, whitepapers, tutorials) demonstrating effective testing strategies, automation frameworks, and best practices.
• Deliver engaging presentations at industry events and conferences globally, sharing insights and influencing the software quality and testing community.
• Build and showcase sample applications, demos, and integrations where you'll focus on the importance of quality and testing using popular testing frameworks and SmartBear's testing products.
• Cultivate authentic relationships within the testing community, actively listening to their experiences, challenges, and advocating for their needs internally.
• Stay current with the latest trends in test automation, quality engineering, and testing methodologies.
• Champion SmartBear's leadership in software quality as testing evolves in the AI era.
• Support internal technical enablement for teams such as pre-sales, solution architects, customer success, and support.
• Partner closely with Product Marketing, Engineering, and Product teams to inform product strategy and accelerate adoption across our testing product portfolio.
• Evangelise and advocate for adherence to high quality test practices across our internal product and engineering org.

• Support the go-to-market strategy, messaging, and knowledge sharing towards internal and external audiences to ensure that the message permeates SmartBear as well as the marketplace.
• Advocate for community and customer needs with other teams inside of SmartBear.
• Support enablement of internal pre-sales, solution architects, and support services staff.

• Test automation frameworks (such as Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Appium)
• Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) practices and tools
• API testing methodologies and tools. Familiarity with some of SmartBear's testing tools is a bonus.
• Software quality best practices including automated testing, exploratory testing, and test-driven development (TDD/BDD)
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (JavaScript, Java, Python, etc.)

• 5+ years experience as a Test Advocate, Technical Evangelist, Quality Advocate, or related role.
• Excellent communication and storytelling abilities, with a proven capability to translate technical concepts into compelling narratives for diverse audiences.
• Active participation and recognition in testing or QA communities, familiar with key influencers, communities, and industry events.
• Experienced public speaker and community engager.
• Collaborative and results-oriented, comfortable working independently and within globally distributed virtual teams.
• Willingness and ability to travel for global industry events, meetings, and conferences.

• You can grow your career at every level.
• We invest in your success as well as the spaces where our teams come together to work, collaborate, and have fun.
• We love celebrating our SmartBears; we even encourage our crew to take their birthdays off.
• We are guided by a People and Culture organization - an important distinction for us. We think about our team holistically - the whole person.
• We celebrate our differences in experiences, viewpoints, and identities because we know it leads to better outcomes.

• Our main goal at SmartBear is to make our technology-driven world a better place.
• SmartBear is committed to ethical corporate practices and social responsibility, promoting good in all the communities we serve.
• SmartBear is headquartered in Somerville, MA with offices across the world including Galway Ireland, Bath, UK, Wroclaw, Poland, and Bengaluru (Bangalore), India.
• We have won major industry (product and company) awards including B2B Innovators Award, Content Marketing Association, IntellyX Digital Innovator and BuiltIn Best Places to Work.

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