Manual QA vacancy at Access Softek

Access Softek is US-based software development company, started 30 years ago in Berkeley, CA. Today, we have offices opened in New-York city, Chicago, Ohio, Vancouver (Canada) and our head office in California (Berkeley). Since 1986 we continue to unveil cutting-edge innovations to over 400 bank and credit union customers in the USA.
Access Softek provides a complete omnichannel solution that helps financial institutions grow revenue, attract and retain users, and compete in their markets with innovative software built atop the foundational Four Pillars of digital banking: online banking, mobile banking, omnichannel lending, and omnichannel account opening.

Responsibilities

Work with Requirements:

— Review & analyze business and functional requirements
— Making suggestions for requirements improvements (when inconsistent, contradictory, unclear or not full enough)
Test Planning
— High-level estimation (in Story points, t-shirt sizes), based on AC, & detailed estimation during Sprint planning
— Required test coverage evaluation & traceability matrix creation
Test Design
— Test documentation creation (detailed test cases, checklists) for new features
— Test coverage optimization, applying test design techniques
— Review test documentation, created by colleagues, making suggestions of improvements (if necessary)
— Regression test documentation updating

Test Execution:

— Test data creation & test environment preparation
— Test cases execution based on test cases/checklists (formal testing)
— Exploratory testing of the application, based on experience
— Manual testing of web and mobile application on different platforms and devices (new feature testing, regression testing)
— Tests prioritization & the selection of the most important test for execution under conditions of time lack

Defects Reporting:

— Defects reporting and work with bug tracking tool (Jira), defects supporting during the life cycle
Tests Results reporting
— Review, analyze, and document test results and metrics (work with CF, Jira, google-docs)
Teamwork
— Collaborate with other QA team members, Dev and PM teams;
— Work in Scrum Team (Agile methodology): active participation in Scrum ceremonies during the whole Sprint cycle

Requirements

— 2+ year experience in QA position;
— Understanding of Agile methodologies and SCRUM processes/roles
— English level (speaking, writing, reading) - intermediate level
— Good knowledge of QA process, terminology, and methodology.
— Willing to adjust your schedule to synchronize with the team
— Ability to write clear, audience aware and business-like e-mails, status reports, and summaries
— Ability to recognize when an issue needs to be escalated to a higher level
— Ability to learn new tools & technologies quickly
— Good teamwork skills.
— Good communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills.
— Highly organized with the ability to handle multiple tasks
— Knowledge in defect tracking systems and test tools(Especially JIRA);
— An understanding of the work principles of web technologies such as HTML, Java, asp, Flash, etc.
— Understanding of deployment process and SQL-based product upgrades.
— Understanding of client-server application architecture

Skills considered as a good plus

— Basic Selenium WebDriver skills
— Basic Atlassian Bamboo skills
— Basic Octopus Deploy skills
— Experience working with a distributed team
— ISTQB certificate

Perks & Benefits

— Work from anywhere in the world!
— Senior development team.
— Long-term employment.
— Paid vacation (15 days off in a year) and national holidays.
— Paid sick leave and internal medical insurance policy.
— Global corporate events for all employees.
— Partial or full compensation for training.
— Provision of computer equipment.
— Internet compensation (50$ per month).