Manual QA Engineer | tms

GT was founded in 2019 by a former Apple, Nest, and Google executive. GT’s mission is to connect the world’s best talent with product careers offered by high-growth companies in the UK, USA, Canada, Germany, and the Netherlands.

On behalf of tms (US), GT is looking for a Manual QA Engineer to join a new dynamic team.

About the Client

The Marketing Store (TMS) is a privately held global Agency that innovates, optimizes, and drives marketing promotions and supply chains of many of the best-known brands, including McDonald’s, Adidas, T-Mobile, and Starbucks. With 1200+ employees across 26 countries, they offer an impressive range of solutions — from inspiration and innovation to category management and delivery.

Headquartered in Chicago with 10 offices worldwide, they are responsible for some of the world’s most successful and iconic long-term marketing platforms, including McDonald’s Happy Meal and MONOPOLY programs.

About the Role

Tms is seeking a talented, experienced Manual QA Engineer to join its dynamic team. The ideal candidate should have a strong background in mobile app testing and be passionate about the gaming industry.

Responsibilities:

• Monitor and implement improvements to the QA process
• Research, recommend, and administer QA tools
• Participate in all aspects of the QA lifecycle. These include: QA estimating & planning, QA reporting & documentation, walkthroughs, and inspections
• Execution of integration, white box, functionality, regression, load, performance and acceptance testing on delivery timelines
• Responsible for Defect management including the identification, reporting, tracking, and triaging of defects using Jira and Xray for Jira
• Work with the development team to help them understand and reproduce issues
• Intervene and escalate issues when they pose a threat to project quality
• Maintain documentation & results for the projects over which he/she has QA responsibility
• Review Test cases/scenarios to make sure all requirements are covered
• Fulfill all the roles of QA Specialist on projects where he/she is participating
• Represent QA at interdepartmental meetings (e.g. strategy sessions, emergency conferences, etc.)
• Support production deployments, when required
• Share testing results with stakeholders to enable them to make decisions regarding go/no go live

Essential knowledge, skills & experience:

• 2+ years of experience with formal test methods and quality assurance programs in an internet/software development environment.
• Ability to test and verify against WCAG Accessibility standards using related testing tools
• Proficiency with API testing using Postman
• Competence with multiple web browsers and operating systems, and an understanding of their differences and issues
• Experience in the preparation, and/or execution of formal test cases, scripts, and scenarios
• Experience using and administering testing tools (Browser Stack, Selenium, etc)
• Ability to examine application tools and familiarity with YAML, JSON, XML
• Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines and deliver against aggressive schedule pressures
• Superior interpersonal skills
• Experience in working in Agile or other sprint-based work process
• Experience, or familiarity with, one or more web development tools (JAVA, HTML, Oracle, PHP)

Interview Steps

1. GT interview with Recruiter
2. Culture fit interview.
3. Technical interview.

We go beyond usual perks… By working with us, you will get:

• Health insurance
• Lunches coverage
• Psychotherapy assistance allowance
• Gym allowance
• Individual educational budget
• 18 business days of paid vacation days per year.
• Paid sick leaves.
• All public holidays are paid days off.

GT working model:

You will work directly with a client through our Extended Team model. We try to do things differently and put our efforts into integrating you as deeply as possible into the client’s team. You work with the same tools and technologies as they do and are managed directly by the client without any intermediary in between. We help you build relationships and create an environment where you genuinely feel like a member of the client’s team. We also encourage trips to a client and join teambuilding and after-work activities. Our Extended Team model is focused on long-term projects that last over several years.