Job Description

The Quality Assurance Engineer II is responsible for supporting the planning, design, and execution of project quality from the beginning and system testing on all simple to complex support portfolio projects. Further, they work collaboratively within the delivery and support teams and account managers to meet standard requirements consistently.

Bring your passion for ensuring quality to our clients who trust their teams to take their business to the next level. Become ready to ditch that commute and work from wherever you find comfortable.

Axelerant is looking for a Quality Assurance Engineer like you to join its team.

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Core Responsibilities and Expectations Thereof

• Active participation in grooming each Jira issue

• Responsible for efficient and empathetic communication with stakeholders via Jira towards completing requirement gathering and building requirement clarity
• Responsible for reviewing user requirements documents to ensure that requirements are testable
• Accountable for adding Acceptance Criteria to the ticket and updating the assignee to Technical Analyst
• Identify and document defects when performing test execution in a fast-paced, fluid, and changing environment.

• Responsible for developing test plans, reviewing test cases, test scripts, and test reports for assigned projects
• Responsible for performing testing on different situations and scenarios to create appropriate reports
• Responsible for validating that user expectations are achieved during the testing process
• Adapt for automated testing

• Responsible for writing Behat scripts or codeless solutions
• Responsible for writing automated visual regression tests using configuration-based tools
• Responsible for helping improve automation tool and framework implementations by providing relevant feedback about the feedback as a user of the framework
• Contribute to risk management

• Responsible for identifying project risks relative to testing and implementation
• Help establish, execute, and evolve quality assurance processes and systems.

• Not blindly follow industry best practices.
• Determine effective testing and inspection strategies
• Confirm measurable test objectives are created for each tested system
• Fully document quality assurance defects: summary, mitigation, retrospectives, iterations
• Prevent silos and collaborate freely with stakeholders
• Provide thorough testing of projects before releasing them to a production environment

Regularly participate in career development activities

• Responsible for at least quarterly self-performance reviews.
• Responsible for actively demonstrating Axelerant core values.
• Supports various learning initiatives/programs at Axelerant by being an active participant in webinars, show-n-tell sessions, and learning clubs.

Requirements

• Demonstrated relevant career experience
• Experience using agile methodologies
• Experience in automating Acceptance tests
• Experience in cross-browser testing
• Experience in cross-device (mobile) testing
• Comfortable communicating in English
• Available to work full time

Nice to Have

• Experience testing in a CMS environment, preferably Drupal, then WordPress
• Ability to manage multiple projects, split across several development teams
• Experience working within a digital agency style environment
• Disciplined in working remotely
• Demonstrated contributions to the quality assurance community
• Ability to utilize Virtual Machine testing environments
• Ability to understand SOW requirements and create test plans accordingly
• Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders regarding project status and with the client or sales department with any questions regarding QA
• Automation experience for Front End, Functional, and Framework
• Experience identifying possible UX issues
• Multi-desktop and mobile platform methodologies-Windows, OSX, iOS, Android

Special Considerations

All of Axelerant's roles are considered work from anywhere. But, we're mainly looking to build our teams around Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia unless specified otherwise. And, we typically expect people to have a two-hour crossover with 11 AM to 7 PM India (UTC+05:30) each workday for meetings and coaching. Further, our salaries are India-based with regional factoring, though some overrides exist.

About Axelerant

We began as an idea in 2012 to build a work from anywhere professional services organization that empowers our team members. Today, we have achieved that and are continuously improving our career, engagement, and performance programs, as demonstrated by our and .

for customers as their primary partner of record. This means that our growing team of over 150 is amongst the best worldwide who create substantial value for our customers because they care about what they do.

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Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive Opportunities

We believe that a diverse, equitable, and inclusive team is critical to our success as a global company. We seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. Kindness and openness are Axelerant core values, and when you qualify for a role, we will make an effort to include and accommodate you, even when that looks different than it seems for others. E.g., non-standard work hours, specialized work equipment, modified work agreements.

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Event Sponsorship

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Meaningful Time Off

52 weekends and 35 days per year of consolidated leave plus maternity, paternity, and sabbatical allowances.

Professional Development

We're always teaching and learning. Continuing education, peer mentorship, life coaching, certifications, and training help our team members advance professionally.

Remote & Flexible

All you need is a reliable Internet connection. Work from anywhere you're comfortable and choose work hours to balance your life.

Retreats & Meetups

With annual retreats, quarterly town halls, and monthly celebrations, we never let remote get in the way of work or fun.