BlueVoyant is hiring a
Senior Quality Assurance Manual Tester

Summary

The job is for a Senior Quality Assurance Manual Tester at BlueVoyant. The role involves designing test plans, manual testing, defect triage, reporting, demonstrating thought leadership, and growing the coverage of testing. Candidates should have 6-10 years of experience in QA/Testing, proficiency using JIRA, basic debugging skills, and a BA degree in computer science or information technology.

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 - Black box, white box, etc., 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
• Inspect from browser, etc
• Must bring Quality Assurance thought leadership to the table
• Must be self-driven, independent, creative, and especially 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

Responsibilities

• 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
• Become a user expert on how our products work, gaining an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses
• Assist in the definition of test environment and support requirements
• Manual testing of new software
• Triage defects
• Ensure logged issues are quickly resolved
• Monitor support channels to support proper defect logging and improvement of QA testing
• Analyze results of testing and provide high quality reporting with the goal to provide insights into coverage and completion
• Demonstrate thought leadership
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of QA standards, industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices
• Design and develop a testing process that will scale as the team grows
• Share expertise with the team to improve test mindshare
• Grow coverage and depth of testing - data validation test cases etc. in addition to functional testing

Preferred Qualifications

• Thrive in our small, fast-paced, product-driven culture
• Collaborate with teams from across the organization
• Execute on commitments as part of a Scrum team
• Present ideas in business-friendly and user-friendly language
• Demonstrate ownership of tasks with escalation as needed
• Be a subject matter expert in quality assurance
• Relentlessly push for successful operational outcomes