Quality Assurance Analyst
Hearst Magazines
Center Valley, PAThis was removed by the employer on 1/23/2019 12:12:00 PM PST
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Full Time Job
Our ideal candidate is a passionate, QA Analyst who is eager to learn and contribute to team success. It's an exciting time here as we establish a fully scalable platform to meet the needs of our users, editors, and distribution channels around the world.
We believe strongly in test-driven development – and also rely heavily on our QA Analysts for prioritization, escalation, and to assure that we maintain the highest standards for our award-winning sites and distribution channels. Your work will reflect on the amazing products that are enjoyed by millions every day.
This QA Analyst will be an integral part of one of our core content teams responsible for the front end of websites. This person will work with engineers, designers, product managers, and other QA team members on our media publishing platform. The ideal candidate will be responsible for maintaining and developing QA test plans, reporting new bugs and troubleshooting issues across our services. The ideal candidate will work closely with software engineers and product managers to test and release front end features, fixes, and products.
In addition, this person will:
• Be comfortable working in a continuous integration environment
• Identify functionality and UI/UX issues on the front end of websites
• Identify functionality and UI/UX issues on our CMS platform
• Be comfortable and enjoy working in a team-focused agile environment
• Have experience with ticketing systems like Jira and repositories like Github
• Triage and determine the criticality of issues reported by support, stakeholders and other platform teams
• Be able to write and execute thorough regression and integration tests and perform manual tests for new features and fixes
• Analyze reports from manual and automated tests and escalate issues as needed
• Test features based on top browsers/devices/OS versions
We also have a strong preference for candidates with:
• At least 3 years of proven experience working as a software QA Analyst
• A strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes with a desire to learn and improve
• Strong verbal and written communication skills as well as interpersonal skills, with both technical and non-technical team members
• A strong sense of ownership and the need to see things through
• A love of digital media and an interest in navigating the changing landscape
Skills
desired:
• Test the front and back end of websites for speed/performance, functionality, and design
• Maintain manual and automation test plans
• Standardize regression test practices across front end/back end websites
• End-to-end testing when new features or integrations are rolled out
• Experience working in and debugging HTML/CSS/Javascript
• Experience using Chrome Dev Tools (or Safari dev tools)
• Solid understanding of features and nuances of various browser/device/OS versions
Bonus Points for:
• Experience using Protractor, Selenium
• Experience writing and running automation test scripts
• Experience using TestRail software
*This position will be located in Central Valley, PA.