Quality Assurance Engineer

As a trusted global transformation partner, Welocalize accelerates the global business journey by enabling brands and companies to reach, engage, and grow international audiences. Welocalize delivers multilingual content transformation services in translation, localization, and adaptation for over 250 languages with a growing network of over 400,000 in-country linguistic resources. Driving innovation in language services, Welocalize delivers high-quality training data transformation solutions for NLP-enabled machine learning by blending technology and human intelligence to collect, annotate, and evaluate all content types. Our team works across locations in North America, Europe, and Asia serving our global clients in the markets that matter to them. www.welocalize.com
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Job Reference: #LI-JC1
OVERVIEW:
Software QA Engineers are responsible for ensuring the overall quality of a product. While testing is a crucial aspect of this role, Software QA Engineers are expected to think holistically and develop Understand functional requirements, technical specifications, business workflows and design documents.

The following is a non-exhaustive list of responsibilities and areas of ownership of a Software Engineer:

• Review user stories, requirements specifications, and technical design documents to understand product changes and provide feedback on testability.
• Collaborate with product management, UX team members, and software architects to identify gaps in usability, stability, performance, and security.
• Approach Product Managers to clarify business processes and potential gaps.
• Design and document the overall approach to product quality.
• Create detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans, including outlining the test approach, integrations, and test coverage.
• Estimate, prioritize, plan, and coordinate testing activities.
• Create comprehensive test cases and execute end-to-end testing based on requirements and design.
• Design, develop, and execute automation scripts.
• Coordinate testing of new features/components/applications to ensure that the end product meets specifications.
• Ensure bugs are reported in detail and provide status updates on testing progress to stakeholders.
• Identify, record, document, and track software defects through resolution.
• Research production issues and document steps needed to reproduce problems.
• Communicate with Product Managers and Developers to ensure overall team success.
• Mentor and guide colleagues by sharing knowledge .
• Update job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities

Education Level

• Post-secondary degree or equivalent professional experience  

Skills required:

• Strong knowledge of QA methodologies, tools, and processes 
• Previous experience as lead creator of clear, concise, comprehensive test plans and cases 
• Experience with both white and black box testing 
• Experience working in an agile development process

Additional Relevant skills:

• Proficiency in API Testing and tools
• Proficient knowledge of SQL
• Familiarity with Performance and security testing is an advantage 

Experience

• 5+ years of experience working as an QA engineer