Contract Manual Software Quality Assurance Tester – Web application
Job Type: Contract - 6 months (Day Rate)
Location: Remote ( Must reside in Ireland )
Rate: €300-350 per day
About the role
A web application manual QA tester is required to work on an intelligent web-based platform. The platform is used by global customers.
The successful candidate will be part of the software engineering team, working with experienced software developers, testers, and product team members. The role consists predominantly of writing and executing manual test cases and creating related test data for new learning platform features. The role will also involve raising bugs and testing relevant fixes, assisting with the creation, management and optimisation of regression runs and running some manual sanity tests on release candidate builds.
This is a contract position, initially for 6 months, to add capacity for testing new features. The role will suit an experienced software web application tester with strengths that include great attention to detail, ability to come up to speed quickly and independently, and have experience with web application testing across modern browsers and devices. The role is based in Ireland. It is a remote role, with the possibility of some in person meetings in the company’s Dublin meeting space.
Responsibilities
- Manual testing of complex, modern, feature-rich web application
- Responsible for writing, maintaining, and enhancing test cases, test plans and test data
- Responsible for executing test cases and test plans
- Work closely with developers, product team members and customer support in an agile environment
Skills
- Ability to understand a complex web UI system, identify testing improvements, refine test cases to correspond with use cases, etc.
- Ability to write clear, comprehensive, and accurate test cases, bug descriptions/steps, etc.
- Strong attention to detail
- Willingness to take ownership and responsibilities for key functional areas
- Ability to work independently on testing of new features
- Good communication and reporting skills
- Experience using bug/feature tracking systems and sprint planning/management tools
- Good spoken and written English
Experience
- 4+ years of experience as a manual quality assurance engineer / tester for web applications
- Experience of testing complex web-based applications
- Experience of testing with different modern web browsers and mobile devices
- Any experience of accessibility testing and/or globalization testing is a bonus
Qualifications
- Relevant 3rd level degree or appropriate qualification from a recognised institute
