Quality Assurance Specialist

Critical Mass; San Jose; On-site; PHP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading digital agency is seeking a Quality Assurance Specialist to ensure the quality of projects while collaborating with teams. The candidate must have a Bachelor's degree and at least 2 years of software quality assurance experience. This role involves creating test plans, communicating issues, and applying industry standards. Competitive benefits and a commitment to employee development are offered. The position requires working on-site at least 3 days a week.

Benefits

Maternity and parental leave extra days

Competitive benefits packages

Vacation, compassionate leave, sick days, and flex days

Access to free online services for families and new parents

Diversity and Inclusion Board with 12 affinity groups

Internal learning and development programs

Enterprise-wide employee discounts

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of experience in software quality assurance.
• Knowledge of Agile Methodologies for software development.
• Experience working with local and offshore teams.

Responsibilities

• Ensure quality of projects based on requirements and specifications.
• Communicate test results, issues, and risks to team members.
• Create and maintain comprehensive test plans and test cases.

Skills

Software quality assurance

Agile methodologies

Communication

Test plan creation

Defect tracking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in software engineering or related field

Tools

Jira

Job description

A Quality Assurance Specialist reports to a QA Lead. Works closely with QA lead, QA Subject Matter Experts, other QA members, Project managers, designers and developers to ensure QA standards and client satisfaction are delivered. He/She Provides execution of QA tasks with speed and great quality for the overall agility of the QA team.

You Will:

• Is co-responsible for the quality of projects based on therequirements and design specifications.
• Responsible for attendingmeetingsproviding status, takingnotesand providing feedback when needed.
• Should be able to communicate test results, issues, and risks found to project team members, project managers, and QA management through the different channels.
• Creating andmaintainingcomprehensive test plans
• Writing andmaintainingtest cases/scripts
• Create traceability matrix documents based upon project requirements
• Create checklist documentation based upon project requirements
• Effectively communicating statuses
• Apply industry standard testingmethodology,strategiesand industry best practices
• Create defect tickets and track issues to resolution
• Report creation and related metrics atdifferent levelswhen necessary
• Support the team on onboardingco-workersand/or junior staff members
• Should be able to execute regression tests based on design specifications and requirements
• Expected tosupportQA estimationsif needed.
• Expected tofully understandproject life cycle and industry standards.
• Expected tofully understandtesting methodologies
• Expected to ask all necessary questions when tasks, requirements or informationisn’tclear or missing
• Shouldbe able to work with other team members to ensure the success of projects.
• Should be able to analyze and understand details and requirements of projects and tickets

You Have:

• Minimum 2 years of experience in software quality assurance.
• Bachelor’s degree in software engineering or related field or equivalent work experience .
• KnowledgeofAgile Methodologies for software development
• Experience working with local and offshore teams
• Experience in task management and defect tracking tools like Jiraand/or similar
• Extensive knowledge of Windows orMacOS software is expected.

What We Offer

• Maternity and parental leave extra days
• Competitive benefits packages
• Vacation, compassionate leave, sick days, and flex days
• Access to free online services for families and new parents
• Diversity and Inclusion Board with 12 affinity groups
• Internal learning and development programs
• Enterprise-wide employee discounts

At Critical Mass, we value our employees and offer competitive compensation and benefits packages. If you’re looking for a challenging and rewarding opportunity to make a significant impact on the lives of our employees, we encourage you to apply for this exciting position today!

In an effort to do so, we expect our team to work from an office a minimum of 3 days a week.

Critical Mass is an equal opportunity employer.