Position: Manual Test Engineer / Strong Mid - Senior
Company: 8allocate
Category: QA
Experience required: 2y
English level: upper
Published: 2023-02-01T00:00:00+02:00

Project: client's project is an e-learning program for reading, math, and Spanish literacy. Based on scientific evidence and comprehensive research, the client’s formative assessments, progress monitoring, adaptive curriculum, and teacher resources help measure growth and introduce new skills at school and home.

The initial project will be the Student Application, an Angular/WASM-based application. This is an established application being ported to additional platforms (eg. Android and iOS), so the tester should have access to Android and iOS devices. Regression testing will be important as part of this project. 

Client team:

Scrum Team - Student Experience:
Product Manager
Scrum Master
3 QA
6 Developers

Timezone requirements:

Most of the team works in the North American Central Time Zone (UTC−06:00).
The ideal would be to have the engineer’s schedule partially overlap ours, having them online and working from 8AM - 12PM Central, Monday - Friday.
This overlap would cover morning stand-ups and existing core development team meetings. 

Requirements

• Strong quantitative and qualitative analytical skills
• Strong time-management and organizational skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Effectively manage information and monitor tasks to identify, analyze, and solve problems
• Take initiative and meet deadlines
• Be flexible, tolerate stress, and work well independently with diverse teams
• Collaborate with team members and across groups
• Strong personal ownership and ability to set and meet high professional standards
• Possess strong listening skills with the ability to diagnose issues and provide solutions
• Able to learn independently, conduct research, synthesize, and apply information
• Able to handle and follow through on multiple tasks and projects

Responsibilities:

• Attend Sprint planning meetings and understand user stories
• Participate in defining Acceptance criteria and help the team solidify requirements
• Create Test runs and execute test cases to verify feature implementation
• Troubleshoot and debug program functions and suggest remediations
• Be efficient in identifying issues proactively and escalate as needed for resolution
• Get a good grasp of program functionality and be able to work with less oversight
• Maintain flexibility to adjust and work with changing priorities
• Familiar with the Agile process, Jira and Testrail
• Collaborate and share information between teams to improve product knowledge

Why choose us?

 • “Family and Friends”. We are no longer a start-up, but we still, have a family atmosphere in our supportive and spirited team, who are all working together on the same goal.
  •“Just break down all barriers and find a better way”. Every day you’ll meet with interesting and challenging (international) projects that are covering industries from commercial aviation to Fintech (different technologies, different products).
• “Hungry for learning”. You will get a lot of chances for career advancement and the development of new skills, opportunities for mentorship, or learning from more experienced colleagues.

Benefits from 8allocate:

• You’ll work with a supportive and spirited team of professionals.
• Corporate events, holidays, and team buildings for your joy.
• Training and development: we have a huge library (about 500 books!) and a budget for your professional development.
• English classes.
• Coverage of sports activities.
• People-oriented management without bureaucracy.
• Paid vacation and sick leaves.