What are the responsibilities and job description for the Junior Software Tester - 17213 position at Transcend Solutions?
Junior Software Tester - 17213
Length of Assignment: 6 months
Work Location: Plano, TX
Work Schedule: Fully Onsite
**NO C2C due to client restrictions**
Top Skills:
- Computer Science
- Engineering or Computational Linguistics
Our client is seeking a detail-oriented tester to evaluate the call voice quality performance on various devices. The role focuses on ensuring a reliable call quality for customers and internal users, and the robustness of the Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) engine across diverse languages, accents, and real-world noise conditions. The ideal candidate combines a passion for audio editing and music with strong coding and analytical abilities that can quickly master audio testing methodologies.
Responsibilities:
- Perform functional, regression, performance, and stress tests on voice calls using both automated scripts and manual procedures.
- Simulate real world network impairments to evaluate the received and transmitted audio signal
- Calculate objective quality metrics and correlate them with subjective user feedback
- Work closely with codec developers, and test leads to diagnose issues (e.g., codec mismatches, echo cancellation failures, hardware limitations)
- Develop and maintain automated test scripts
- Collaborate closely with developers, QA engineers, and cross-functional teams
- Detect, track, and document software defects, performance issues, and inconsistencies
- Design, execute, and maintain functional, regression, and performance test cases for mobile apps and system features
- Analyze test results and provide detailed reports and feedback to the development team
- Passionate about new technology, audio, music, coding and AI
- Work with a wide range of media, audio editing and music software
- Understanding audio equalizer concept and audio signal
Requirements and Qualifications:
- Fluently read, write and speak English
- Tech savvy - Intermediate-level skills using computers, mobile devices, spreadsheets
- Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously
- Critical thinker and problem-solving skills
- Team player
- Good time-management skills
- Great interpersonal and communication skills
- Strong attention to detail, ability to follow instructions, work independently as well as working on a team
- Thrive in a fast-paced environment with short deadlines
- Understanding of cultural/linguistic nuances and political correctness for respective language/country
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of relevant linguistic, regional, and cultural trends
Education and Years of Experience:
- Preferred- bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, computational linguistics or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience)
- 0-5 years of applicable experience