Senior Quality Assurance Manual Tester

Skills
Software TestingBug TrackingDefect LoggingManual TestingQuality AssuranceQuality Assurance TestingRegression Testing
Role

What the job involves

The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.

Requirements

  • 6-10 years of experience
  • QA/Testing experience in a technology/led company, working as part of QA/Testing team
  • Experience creating and executing a test plan
  • Experience reviewing written requirements and UX documents to create test cases
  • Experience performing manual testing against test cases
  • Excellent understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle in an Agile environment
  • Excellent understanding of the different types of software testing (e.g., Black box, white box, regression testing)
  • Proficiency using ticketing systems (JIRA)
  • Experience logging high-quality, thoroughly written defects
  • Experience learning new systems to expand test coverage, testing, and triage capabilities
  • Basic debugging skills to better inform defect logging (e.g., Inspect from browser)
  • Must bring Quality Assurance thought leadership to the table
  • Must be self-driven, independent, creative, and eager to learn new skills
  • Strong analytical and communication skills
  • Extremely high attention to detail
  • BA degree in computer science or information technology or a combination of education and work experience

Nice to have

  • Thrive in a fast-paced, product-driven culture
  • Collaborate across the organization
  • Execute as part of a Scrum team
  • Present ideas in business-friendly and user-friendly language
  • Demonstrate ownership with escalation as needed
  • Subject matter expert in QA
  • Push for successful operational outcomes

Day to day

  • Design, develop, and document test plans with well thought out test cases
  • Work with cross-functional teams to proactively improve on existing test plans and test cases
  • Manual testing of new software during both the pre- and post-release stages of the development lifecycle (black box and white box testing)
  • Conduct regression testing to identify issues and help developers find solutions
  • Take ownership of issues in production environments that were not caught by QA and ensure QA practices are in place to prevent recurrence
  • Monitor support channels to support proper defect logging and improvement of QA testing

Hiring process

  • Submit job application via JazzHR platform