Senior Manual QA Engineer for Seeking Alpha (offline)

Seeking Alpha is the market leader for crowdsourced equity research in the USA. We employ 150+ people across its operations in New York, Israel and India.

The company is the premier website for actionable stock market opinion and analysis, and vibrant, intelligent finance discussion. Each month our crowdsource investment analysis draws an audience of 5.2MM+ monthly visitors to our real-time alerts products on email and mobile.

We handpick articles from the world’s top market blogs, money managers, financial experts and investment newsletters, publishing 500 unique article and news updates daily. The company gives a voice to over 5.5MM registered users, including 12,000+ contributors and individuals averaging 130,000+ comments a month, providing access to the nation’s savviest and inquisitive investors.

Our site is the only free, online source for over 5,000 public companies’ quarterly earnings call transcripts, including the S&P 500. The company was named the Most Informative Website by Kiplinger’s Magazine and has received Forbes’ ‘Best of the Web’ Award.

Description

On behalf of Seeking Alpha, Ciklum is looking for a Senior Manual QA Engineer to join Kyiv team on full-time basis.

Responsibilities

- Create and maintain test documentation (checklists, test cases)

- Manually test application on the web and mobile platforms (cross-browser)

- UI testing (responsive design)

- Document and maintain identified defects in Jira

- Analyze and evaluate business requirements (clear and fully described)

- Communicate on any risks from QA perspective that could affect future release

- Report to stakeholders about results of tests execution

- Communicate to developers, project owners, customer support

- Provide support in issues investigation

- Estimation of the testing activities

Requirements

- 3-4 years of professional experience in software QA

- Experience of front end (web) and UI testing at least 3 years

- Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes

- Understanding of SDLC in Agile/Scrum

- Solid understanding of test design techniques

- Understanding of web technologies: HTML, CSS, client-server architecture, API, JavaScript

- Upper Intermediate level of English

Desirable

- Experience of Mobile testing

- Basic knowledge of SQL

Personal skills

- Good analytical skills

- Team player with the ability to work independently

- Self-motivated, self-disciplined, goal-driven

- Strong attention to details and accuracy

- Problem-solving mindset

- Good communication skills

What's in it for you

- Very close cooperation with client

- Dynamic and challenging tasks

- Team of professionals: learn from colleagues and gain recognition of your skills

- Low bureaucracy, European management style