Quality Assurance Analyst (Web Applications - mobile, iOS, Android, HTTP)

Job Description

• Primarily responsible for working alongside the Development and Product Management teams to produce high-quality entertainment applications that enable customers to access, record, and watch video content on iOS, Android, and web platforms.
• Thoroughly test web-based entertainment applications across multiple browsers and platforms.
• Triage and validate fixes for bugs identified during development cycles and, occasionally, in production environments.
• Collaborate with Development and Product Management teams to understand, refine, and contribute to requirements and test cases for new features.
• Work closely with the Functional Automation team to translate regression test cases into automation scripts.
• Analyze RESTful web services used by applications for data presentation and error handling.
• Take ownership of issues and drive them through to resolution.
• Thrive in a fast-paced Agile environment where requirements evolve rapidly and adaptability is essential.
• Perform inspections and establish quality assurance testing models for the analysis of raw materials, work-in-progress materials, and finished products.

Requirements

• 5–8 years of experience testing web applications across multiple browsers and platforms.
• Familiarity with HTTP web services and the ability to modify requests and responses to test a variety of scenarios.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong focus on test case maintainability.
• Excellent debugging skills and attention to detail.
• Experience with web test automation is a plus (e.g., Cucumber and Capybara).
• Experience with video quality analysis is a plus.

Significant Experience in One or More of the Following Areas

• Deployment Automation and Containerization (Puppet, Docker, Kubernetes).
• Configuration Management and Build Automation.
• Set-Top Box Automation (Cisco, Arris).
• Large-Scale Systems Integration and Automation.

Technical Skills

• Experience with scripting languages such as Python and JavaScript.
• Experience programming in core languages such as Java or Objective-C.
• Experience with web application development, including Dynamic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript integration.
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration (CI) development lifecycles and the development and testing challenges associated with CI environments.
• Ability to navigate and work within Unix operating systems.

Additional Qualifications

• Strong communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate complex technical issues and technologies.
• Familiarity with the full lifecycle of QA Engineering support for technology stacks including:
• JavaScript
• iOS and/or Android client technologies
• Unix server-side technologies
• Knowledge of commonly used concepts, practices, and procedures within the QA Engineering and software testing domain.