Quality Assurance Specialist

As a Quality Assurance Specialist, you will be responsible for thoroughly testing software changes, reporting bugs, and creating test artifacts including test cases, checklists, and shared testing data. You will play a crucial role in ensuring our product meets the highest standards of quality while supporting and improving our release velocity.

We’re looking for someone who can treat this as their primary professional commitment and be reliably available during agreed working hours. This role requires consistent focus throughout the week and is not well-suited for candidates juggling multiple full-time contracts.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills to evaluate, understand, and clarify requirements, and develop a testing strategy to cover the requirements adequately.
• Ability to effectively troubleshoot, prioritize bugs, and provide clear, concise bug reporting.
• Strong testing skills and deep knowledge of various testing types, including web, mobile, backend, and AI tooling hands-on testing.
• Strong sense of ownership and a proactive, independent problem-solving mindset.
• Exemplary verbal and written communication skills, essential for effective asynchronous and remote collaboration.
• Demonstrated success working independently in a fully remote environment. This role requires exceptional self-management, high autonomy, and the ability to effectively manage time and projects with minimal oversight.
• Positive attitude and growth mindset.
• An eye for what slows teams down and an ability to surface opportunities for improvement.

Experience Requirements:

• Risk-based and context-driven testing.
• End-to-end testing ownership.
• Developing subject matter expertise of the products and systems under test.
• Advocating for quality throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Reviewing and analyzing requirements.
• Defining holistic testing approaches.
• Bug triages.
• Working closely with product and engineering teams from early stages of development.

Hiring Process:

1. Intro screen call.
2. Paid 8-hour trial where you will be testing our app and reporting bugs found.
3. 60-minute deep dive into your background and QA approach.
4. 30-minute interview with the team to assess team fit.