\nThe Position\n\nThe Quality Assurance Analyst contributes to all phases of Testing Lifecycle through the analysis, design, execution, and maintenance of software test suites. As a Quality Assurance Analyst, you will have the opportunity to work on a wide range of projects, ranging from new and existing front-end web-based (mobile and desktop) applications to back-end API testing. You will work closely with the Product Engineering, Product and Project Management teams to create test cases, execute test suites, and over time potentially create automated test cases for web and mobile applications.\n\nYour Responsibilities\n\n\n* Participation and/or review of documentation and/or test results in all QA test phases such as requirements validation, unit, integration, functional, and regression testing.\n\n* Create manual and potentially automated tests and execute tests for software and systems.\n\n* Execute test plans and scripts / cases that will determine optimal application performance according to specifications.\n\n* Participate and collaborate with software/systems personnel in application testing, such as system, unit, regression, load, and acceptance testing methods and activities.\n\n* Ensure that testing activities allow applications to meet business requirements and systems goals, fulfill end-user requirements, and identify existing or potential issues.\n\n* Communicate test progress, test results, and other relevant information to project stakeholders and team members.\n\n* Make recommendations for improvement of applications to programmers and software developers or engineers.\n\n* Analyze formal test results to discover and report any defects, bugs, errors, configuration issues, and interoperability flaws.\n\n* Prepare and / or Create AODA (Accessibility) reports at end of test cycles as required.\n\n* Assist with preparation of required QA artifacts including, but not limited to, master test strategy and plan, functional test plan, QA acceptance plan/sign off, defect tracking report.\n\n* Cultivate and disseminate knowledge of quality assurance best practices.\n\n* Participate in daily standups, sprint planning, and project retrospectives.\n\n* Contribute to innovation and cultivate a positive and supportive team.\n\n* Stay up to date with current best practices and emerging technologies.\n\n* Participate and contribute to company culture.\n\n\n\n\n \n\nAbout You\n\n\n* 1-3 years of experience in a Quality Assurance role\n\n* Experience with web/mobile application testing (browser compatibility, responsive testing, etc.)\n\n* Experienced in web/mobile application technologies such as HTML, CSS, Javascript etc.\n\n* Experience testing in Window OS, Mac OS, Mobile OS (Android, iOS), etc.\n\n* Good understanding of the quality assurance discipline, the defect lifecycle management processes, and the software commonly used for test planning and defect tracking (ideally Jira or another tool like Bugzilla, etc.)\n\n* Understanding of cloud computing architecture, services and platforms\n\n* Good knowledge of structured test methods and processes, and writing test cases and test scenarios\n\n* Experience in developing test plans, writing test scripts, developing use cases, governing quality standards, vetting and guiding requirements/acceptance criteria, and assisting business users through user acceptance test processes.\n\n* Experience and knowledge of software quality tools (ie. test case management, project planning, defect management)\n\n* Experience with testing APIs using tools such as Postman\n\n* Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle Methodology\n\n* Familiarity with concepts related to design principles, content, navigation, usability, behavioural analytics tagging, accessibility, SEO, localization/ multi-lingual and personalization considerations\n\n* Familiarity with DevOps principles, processes and tools (e.g. IaC, CI/CD and orchestration)\n\n* Experience with Test Automation (Nice to have)\n\n* Experienced in working in Agile environment (is ideal)\n\n* Sense of urgency and ability to work under tight timelines.\n\n* Ability to communicate ideas both technically and non-technically.\n\n* Clear, concise and articulate. Good written and oral communication skills with the ability to present to various levels of stakeholder.\n\n* Results oriented, critical thinker, good analytical and problem-solving skills\n\n* Good organizational and time-management skills\n\n* Highly collaborative and dynamic\n\n* A bachelor's degree in Engineering, computer science, information systems or a related field.\n\n* Ability to take ownership of tasks and projects assigned with minimal supervision\n\n* Proactive in raising potential risks/concerns\n\n\n\n\nWhy You’ll Love This Opportunity\n\nUltimately, if you are looking for a challenging role that will expand your skills and expose you to leading edge web technologies, this is the position for you. This is an amazing opportunity that allows you to have a fulfilling career in QA for the long term. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, DevOps, JavaScript, Cloud, API and Mobile jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $105,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nToronto, Ontario, Canada

Key Skills:\nAutomation testing, Manual testing, Cypress, Katalon, CI/CD Automation, Appstores, Javascript, Jira and Confluence.\n\nDo you have a soft spot for profitable companies with a meaningful, globally used and loved product? Would you like to work within a compact, super-capable team in a refreshing work environment? Would you like to work on an application that is changing the way we learn and communicate? Drops could be the place for you.\n\nAbout us:\nOur goal at Drops is to ensure effective language learning through a delightful, seamless, gamified experience. We strive to be the #1 app for vocabulary learning. Our app has been live on the App Store for 4 years, covering 45 languages, serving over 35 million users across the globe and has been featured on both the App Store (App of the Day) and Play Store (App of the Year in 2018). Drops has also been featured by TechCrunch, FastCo, Forbes, CNN, Bloomberg, VentureBeat and many, many more. In short, we’re a tiny but very powerful team spread (mostly) across Europe, achieving great things the remote way! In December 2020, Drops was acquired by Kahoot!, the world’s leading game-based learning platform.\n\nCheck us out here: https://languagedrops.com\n\n\nAbout you:\nYou’re a driven and passionate Senior QA Engineer who strives not only for the best possible product experience, but is also a solutions-focussed individual who doesn’t shy away from a challenge. You will have experience working closely with developers and the wider product team on a variety of different projects, being a vocal and engaged member of the team throughout the entire development cycle.\n\nYou have experience creating, managing and maintaining automation tests and issue tracking, willing to propose suggestions for improvement and optimisation learnt from previous experience! You’re meticulous about documenting test cases and release management for all cross functional team members. You’re a proactive team player who recognises problems and spots patterns with an eye for processes, compatibility, consistency and stability within a product!\n\nDrops is a deliberately small, but super effective team. You’re naturally drawn to the fate of the products & driven to grow as an engineer rather than to manage people.\n\n\nThe role:\nYou are excited by variety (it’s the spice of life!) - In this role, you’ll be:\n* Writing, maintaining and fixing automation tests for mobile and web (Cypress, Katalon)\n* Working on and improving our CI/CD deployment process\n* Manually testing across a suite of web and mobile applications during the sprint cycle\n* Ensuring quality and engagement through issue tracking in Jira\n* Pushing releases for the entire Drops catalogue\n* Writing test cases and team process documentation\n\n\nYou will:\n* Support the development team in testing new builds and functionality\n* Add to and deliver the wider QA roadmap\n* Meet regularly with support to discuss, triage and own issues with quality\n* Communicate effectively with product managers, engineers and the marketing growth team\n* Engage with and monitor KPI’s which detail issue rates, crash rates, automation and overall quality\n\n\nWhat’d be different here:\n* We’re a small team. We’re optimising for impact, not for headcount. You’ll be carefully considering any tradeoff that would lead to increased complexity\n* We have over 35 million users\n* We have robust coding standards and every pull request needs review and approval before it lands in master. We use the rebase workflow and we release a few times a week\n* We’re using Javascript for our cypress automation suite\n* Our backend is hosted on AWS and we use Buildkite and Bitrise for our CI\n* We’re using react native on the frontend\n* We are BIG on AB testing. We focus on releasing high impact projects and minimise noise\n* Our biggest challenge in QA is balancing a solid automation test coverage, testing new functionality and releasing regularly\n\n\nYou have:\n* Worked within QA teams, with bonus points for smaller teams and startup/growth companies\n* Experience in automation testing (cypress, katalon etc)\n* Experience using issue tracking via tools such as Jira, Monday etc.\n* Experience writing documentation\n* Experience with mobile and web releases\n* Strong verbal and written communication skills\n* Proactiveness, with a solutions-focussed attitude\n* Drops values clear, honest communication and transparency. It’s the linchpin of our culture, success and freedom. You’ll be involved in both high and low level decision making and available during European working hours (10AM - 6PM CET).\n\nBenefits: \n🌍 All the perks of remote working\n👥 An awesomely compact 30 person team\n🧠 Yearly educational allowance\n💪 Fitness allowance\n💻 High-end Apple hardware and ergonomic accessories\n🏖 36 days of holiday per year\n✈️ Team gathering 3 times a year, somewhere in the world (Amsterdam, Iceland, Lisbon and Budapest were previous locations) - Once we can move freely of course\n\n\nNotes:\nPS: Hey, this is Irma, I'll be the one looking at your application. We're looking for people who want to work for Drops, not just any old company. That's why I'll be looking out for short, personal notes instead of copy paste cover letters that tell me what you like about Drops and what you're hoping working with us would give you. Please add how you take your coffee to your application - just to make sure you read right through to the very end of the job description. \n\nPlease mention the word **EVOCATIVE** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4yNTA=). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n $50,000 — $70,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nRemote

At Pleased, our mission is to please you and your customers. To achieve that, we offer an all-inclusive, easy-to-use and affordable support software.\n \nWe’re looking for people who are passionate about our product and serving our clients. We retain our team members with a dynamic and flexible work life which empowers them to create value, and rewards them generously based upon their contribution.\n\nIn this role, you’ll be responsible for running the end to end quality assurance testing for the software, both manually and through automation testing. You’ll be working on complex systems that are used to serve hundred and thousands customers a day. We wrote our system from scratch about 1 year ago, so you’ll be working with the latest technology and won’t have to worry about decades old legacy code.\n\n**Who We Are**\n\nPleased.com is a new and exciting SaaS customer support solution for small and large businesses. We pride ourselves upon the product we’ve created together in less than a year. We improve the application on a daily basis and are continuously adding new features. With us, you’ll always have something new and exciting to work on and never be bored!\n\nWe’re a small and fast moving agile team. We need talented individuals to drive increased growth and contribute to the innovation, creativity and hard work that currently serves our clients further via our team's grit and innovation.\n\n**Our Stack**\n\nPrograming language: Java / Python\n\nDB: MySQL / SQL database\n\nDevOps: AWS / Jenkins / K8S\n\nFrond-end: Vue.js \n\n**Responsibilities**\n\nTesting (black box, white box, integration, and performance) of the Web and Android/iOS platforms\n\nCreate automated Web / Mobile / API test cases\n\nTrack and analyze automated tests to improve test efficiency\n\nTrack and record product issues and analyze the problems through various tools, giving feedback to relevant personnel to make corrections\n\nShare test-related information with other team members\n\nDevelop automated tests and test frameworks\n\nImprove our Continuous Integration pipeline\n\nIdentify and execute on opportunities to improve or establish quality processes\n\nHelp automate all aspects of the software engineering process\n\nWrite test plans / test cases and output test reports according to feature requirements\n\nSimulate user needs and actual usage scenarios from a user perspective\n\nReview designs and code done by others and provide constructive feedback\n\nContinuously develop your own skills \n\nMentor less experienced members of the team \n\n**Requirements**\n\n2+ years of testing experience\n\nBS / MS in Computer Science, Information Systems, Electrical Engineering\n\nWorking knowledge of a programming language (e.g. Java / Python)\n\nFamiliarity with Web / Android / iOS manual testing\n\nFamiliarity with the test tool (Postman / Chrome console)\n\nFamiliarity with various tests (function / integration / regression / stress / API)\n\nExperience in developing and running a Continuous Integration system\n\nFamiliarity with Automation testing knowledge with REST APIs\n\nFamiliarity with Automation testing knowledge with Mobile UI / Function\n\nFamiliarity with MySQL / SQL database\n\nDocker and Kubernetes experience would be advantageous \n\nFamiliarity with Jira / Jenkins would be advantageous \n\n**Benefits**\n\nQuarterly and flash bonuses\n\nFlexible working hours\n\nTop-of-the-line equipment\n\nEducation allowance \n\nReferral bonuses \n\nAnnual company holidays - we’re hoping to make it to Koh Samui in 2021!\n\nHighly talented, dependable co-workers \n\nOur team is small enough for you to be impactful \n\nOur business is backed by established and successful businesses, offering stability and security to our employees\n\n\n\n \n\nPlease mention the words **QUESTION SWARM FLOCK** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4yNTA=). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n $20,000 — $50,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nWorldwide