Senior Quality Assurance Manual Tester
Location: Remote in the UK
BlueVoyant is seeking a Senior Quality Assurance Manual Tester to join our team to guide and implement best practices for manual testing in support of technology platforms.
General Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and document test plans with well thought out test cases
- Work with cross-functional teams to proactively improve on existing test plans and test cases.
- Become a user expert on how our products work, gaining an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses
- Assist in the definition of test environment and support requirements
- Manual testing of new software
- Both the pre- and post-release stage of the development lifecycle - black box and white box testing, etc.
- Regression testing - look for problems and bugs in the system that users may encounter and help developers find solutions to the issues.
- Triage defects
- Ensure logged issues are quickly resolved.
- Ability to identify above the line/below the line issues in order to prevent critical bugs from being deployed.
- Take ownership of issues in production environments that were not caught by QA with a mission to ensure QA practices are in place to prevent likelihood of recurrence.
- Monitor support channels to support proper defect logging and improvement of QA testing.
- Reporting
- Analyze results of testing and provide high quality reporting with the goal to provide insights into coverage and completion.
- Demonstrate thought leadership
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of QA standards, industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices.
- Design and develop a testing process that will scale as the team grows
- Share expertise with the team to improve test mindshare.
- Grow coverage and depth of testing - data validation test cases etc. in addition to functional testing
Qualifications
- 6-10 years of experience
- QA/Testing experience in a technology/led company, working as part of QA/Testing team
- Experience creating and executing a test plan
- Experience reviewing written requirements and UX documents to create test cases
- Experience performing manual testing against test cases
- Excellent understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle in an Agile environment. Excellent understanding of the different types of software testing
- Black box, white box, etc.
- Regression testing
- Proficiency using ticketing systems (JIRA)
- Experience logging high quality, thoroughly written defects
- Experiencing learning new systems to expand test coverage, testing, and triage capabilities.
- Basic debugging skills to better inform defect logging
- Inspect from browser, etc.
- Must bring Quality Assurance thought leadership to the table
- Must be self-driven, independent, creative, and especially eager to learn new skills.
- Strong analytical and communication skills
- Extremely high attention to detail
- BA degree in computer science or information technology or a combination of education and work experience
Ideal candidates will
- Thrive in our small, fast-paced, product-driven culture.
- Collaborate with teams from across the organization.
- Execute on commitments as part of a Scrum team.
- Present ideas in business-friendly and user-friendly language.
- Demonstrate ownership of tasks with escalation as needed.
- Be a subject matter expert in quality assurance.
- Relentlessly push for successful operational outcomes.
About BlueVoyant
At BlueVoyant, we recognize that effective cyber security requires active prevention and defense across both your organization and supply chain. Our proprietary data, analytics, and technology, coupled with deep expertise, works as a force multiplier to secure your full ecosystem. Accuracy! Actionability! Timeliness! Scalability!
Led by CEO, Jim Rosenthal, BlueVoyant’s highly skilled team includes former government cyber officials with extensive frontline experience in responding to advanced cyber threats on behalf of the National Security Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Unit 8200, and GCHQ, together with private sector experts. BlueVoyant services utilize large real-time datasets with industry leading analytics and technologies.
Founded in 2017 by Fortune 500 executives, including Executive Chairman, Tom Glocer, and former Government cyber officials, BlueVoyant is headquartered in New York City and has offices in Maryland, Tel Aviv, San Francisco, London, Budapest, and Latin America.
All employees must be authorized to work in the United Kingdom. BlueVoyant provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, BlueVoyant complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.
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