Job Purpose

As a Senior Quality Assurance Analyst for our digital platform, you ensure the quality of our digital consumer-facing products. You are responsible for developing, maintaining, and executing test plans for our digital products. You are the champion of quality and have a crucial role in helping the organization reduce risk and deliver high quality software applications. You will assist in establishing new and improving existing Quality Assurance processes and strategies.

Responsibilities

• Developing and executing formal test plans to ensure the delivery of quality software applications
• Involved in test planning, writing test cases/scripts, and test execution
• Documenting all defects found and assisting in their resolution
• Tracking quality assurance metrics such as defects, defect counts, test results and test status
• Working with cross-functional teams to understand business and technical requirements for new functionality to be tested
• Partnering with engineering and product early in the design process to question decisions and surface risks before development begins
• Assisting the QA Manager to evolve existing QA processes, standards, and guidelines, ensuring that the team is using industry-accepted best practices

• 4+ years experience in software development where your role was in the testing function

• Experience planning, preparing, and executing test plans, and be responsible for project release testing
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Ability to identify, analyze and assist in resolving defects
• Experience working in an agile software development environment with cross-functional geographically distributed teams
• Experience with JIRA, Confluence, and SharePoint
• Experience testing RESTful Web Services and JSON messages
• Ability to write and execute SQL queries to retrieve, validate, and troubleshoot data in support of testing efforts
• Knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and Software Quality Assurance best practices
• Bachelor's degree

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in EdTech industry
• Experience with test automation framework and tools
• Experience with Accessibility testing

Required Education

• Bachelor's degree

Status

• Full-time

Location

• Remote

The expected base salary range for this position is $84,000-$95,000, however the offered salarymay be higher or lower than the above range dependent on numerous factors including, but not limited to location, work experience, skills and internal equity considerations. The base salary is not inclusive of benefits or other incentives.

A cover letter and resume are required to be considered for this position.

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