Software QA Engineer

Position Description

• Work on various Web and Mobile projects for clients from USA and Western Europe. Project size varies from 3 months up to a few years.
• Be among the first to learn about the new product and make sure the client/users are getting what they need at the highest quality level.
• Act as an interface between clients/users and the development team.

Responsibilities

• QA:
  • Collect, review, and document product/requirements’ acceptance criteria with users/clients.
  • Detail and document acceptance test cases and test plans, with focus on manual testing.
  • Utilize various methods of testing (. functional, exploratory, integration, regression) in order to efficiently cover the developed areas.
  • Identify and report defects, and drive them till resolution.
  • Provide support for UAT and production incidents.
  • Plan and estimate QA activities associated with a project.
  • Follow/improve QA standards.
• General:
  • Work closely with developers to recognize the potential for any operational issues, assess risks, and resolve issues before the new software is complete.
  • Work in coordination with the development team for troubleshooting and resolving issues.
  • Report progress on current activities and overall QA plans.
  • Review/audit work of other colleagues.
  • Train/coach more junior people.
  • Follow and improve the QA standards, practices, processes; participate in/run retrospectives to identify process issues and improvements.
  • Perform activities according to Agile/Scrum and traditional methodologies.

Experience, Knowledge, and Skills

We would like the candidate to have knowledge of:

• QA methodologies.
• Software application development and defect life-cycle.
• Testing principles and methods.
• Technical knowledge:
  • SQL (average level) and concepts of relational databases.

We would like the candidate to be able to:

• Learn new business domains and business processes.
• Review business requirements with clients/users.
• Review functional and non-functional specifications.
• Create test scenarios that can be used by both the business and technical team.
• Communicate in English at an advanced level (speak and write).

Experience - minimum 3 years in doing most of below:

• Communicating concepts/ideas to business and technical audiences.
• Reviewing requirements with business clients/users.
• Creating testing strategies and test plans/test cases.
• Reporting/documenting/reproducing defects.
• Testing web & mobile applications, using different types of testing (Functional, Regression etc.).
• Using issue tracking/reporting tools (like JIRA).

Education and certifications:

• Studies in Computers Science, Mathematics, Business IT, or related discipline.
• ISTQB certification would be a big plus.

Non-technical skills and values:

• Mindset that a quality product can be built based on accurate customer needs only.
• Strong interest in software quality.
• Focus on self-improvement.
• Good troubleshooting skills, attention to details, proactive attitude regarding identifying and fixing issues.
• Capability to work in virtual teams and/or with remote clients.

Benefits

• You’ll have the chance to:

  • Work for international clients to solve challenges and get valuable experience, by collaborating with colleagues in local teams to feel more comfortable at the same time.

  • Grow and build experience on technologies you are most interested in (that is influenced by available projects). You can get guidance when you need help.

  • Get opportunities to contribute with innovative ideas to build outstanding solutions, even for other projects than your own.

  • Learn many new things in a short period of time, and you will not be stuck in an obsolete technology

  • Influence/change architecture and/or design of solutions, not just implement what others planned for you.

• You’ll get:

  • Competitive salary.

  • To work in a centrally located office at Victoriei Square.

  • Medical Insurance (Regina Maria - Business).

  • Flexible schedule and relaxed working atmosphere. We don’t have rigid structures and you can juggle with the working interval.

  • Relaxation room: gaming console, comfy couch, board games and a lot of fun.

  • Team building travels.

Company details:

• Clarisoft Technologies is a custom software development company that offers dedicated digital business solutions to small, mid and large-scale enterprises.
• We have our headquarters located in the US, in Scottsdale Arizona and Pittsford, New York, and we outsource our software development services to our office in Bucharest (Victoriei Square), Romania.
• Our Romanian team has 40+ people including developers, QA, and project managers.
• For 15 years we built enterprise software and multiplatform applications that helped our clients better engage their customers and scale their business.