QA MOBILE

Role Details The QA Engineer will be a core member on the Mobile Native apps team and will be responsible for: Maintain a high quality standard product by creating comprehensive test suites for all Apple and Android platforms and providing accurate test estimates for our development team. Effectively communicate test results to our engineers and product managers through proper communication pipelines. Critically think about the level and complexity of testing required in each stage of the software development life cycle. Provide feedback on product design to give users the best possible customer experience. Develop more efficient ways to complete full regressions across several builds. Inspire confidence in the development teams and product stakeholders. Communicate testing best practices to the various QA teams.   Your Day-to-Day: Manage, create, edit and execute our various test suites across all Apple and Android platforms, for Mobile devices, tablets and TVs. Manage, create and execute test plans across all Apple and Android platforms, ranging from Apple iphones, tablets and smart TVs, Android/Amazon Phones/Tablets, Android OTT devices such as Amazon FireTV, Android TV and Facebook Portal. Execute the testing for the assigned scrum team to ensure quality standards and requirements are met. Validate and verify all tasks, stories and defects throughout our development cycles. Prioritize incoming issues and document steps to reproduce, as well as observed and expected system behavior. Actively participate in daily standups, sprint planning and sprint ceremonies with an emphasis on optimizing testing cycles/resources with product and development teams to deliver shippable features. Coordinate with the rest of the QA team to analyze and improve the QA process. Review requirements, specifications, and design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback. Organize and triage defects logged by our external test team. Participate in all phases of the software development life cycle, including analyzing requirements, developing test plans, test cases, and execution of test scripts. Work with support teams to triage and reproduce issues. Create and communicate weekly test reports to our Company Leads, Managers and stakeholders. Determine how to best test functional cases that rely on REST APIs and CMS entries. Additional duties and responsibilities, as needed.   Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related degree, or a Certificate in Quality Assurance training program. 3+ years of experience in reviewing product requirements, creating test plans and testing Software applications for Mobile and/or OTT.   Required Skills Strong understanding of Apple and Android products and variants. Proficient in Jira or any other bug tracking tools. Experience in test case creation and management programs; preferably TestRail. Knowledge of device debugging tools such as Charles Proxy. Experience using tools like: New Relic, Figma, Zeplin. Experience in mobile and/or OTT testing. Experience with Android Studio, and Android Device Bridge (ADB). Ability to export system logs via LOGCAT. Experience in analyzing various types and causes of defects (API vs Client). Experience with Agile methodology and working in Scrum teams. Understanding of Software Development life cycle and Software Testing life cycle. Excellent Communication skills. Able to work independently without much supervision. Great problem solving and analytical skills. Experience as a QA liaison to various scrum teams. Understanding of HTTP, Redux and REST API's. Capable of contributing to libraries and automation frameworks with some supervision. Knowledge of various streaming technologies and services. Professional experience designing and working with Appium-based test automation frameworks and developing automated test scripts using common design patterns such as Page Ob