Do you consider yourself adept at working independently and do you prefer roles that benefit from the existence of a process to drive strong outcomes? Are you known for your ability to execute with a high degree of expediency and accuracy? Want to help make the world a safer, more sustainable and more creative place?

It may sound like a lofty goal, but that’s exactly what we’re doing at Black Spectacles. Our platform attracts architects around the world who want to push the limits of their industry. Our content — which includes podcasts, design tutorials and exam prep — helps architects keep pace with emerging technologies and software so they can do their best work.

Black Spectacles is Chicago-based with a fully remote staff. We are a Great Place to Work-Certified™ company and ranked #11 in Education on the INC. 5000 America’s Fastest Growing Company List in 2019. To keep that momentum going strong, we’re expanding our team of enthusiastic go-getters. We are on the hunt for a full-time QA Analyst.

The mission for this role is to ensure quality by performing all testing activities on our products and platforms.

You will:

• Be responsible for the quality of our products as we plan, design, build, test, release and measure releases.
• Ensure customer satisfaction is kept high as a result of minimal errors or issues with our products.
• Test all front end/back end features/changes to our products.
• Analyzing features and stories to come up with test scenarios to ensure it is working correctly.
• Provide 2nd level support for all customer reported issues.
• Triage and analysis of these issues and reporting them in our defect tracking software (JIRA).

Requirements

• Minimum of 7 years of experience in QA and software testing.
• Strong experience analyzing requirements, writing test scenarios/test cases and hands on testing.
• Experience working in an Agile environment.
• Experience using defect tracking tools like JIRA or similar.
• Experience with writing SQL queries and using data management processes that assist in testing features.
• Strong multitasker and manager of details on multiple projects at one time.
• Familiarity with edtech software applications is a nice to have, such as video content, exams, and quizzes.
• Familiarity with automated test tools is nice to have, mostly from a front end point of view.

Benefits

• Work from wherever policy
• Unlimited Vacation
• Blue Cross Blue Shield health, dental, vision, short-term / long-term disability and life insurance.
• Flexible Savings Accounts and Health Savings Accounts
• 401k with Employer match
• Profit sharing program
• Employee referral program
• Commuter pre-tax program
• Frequent team events & quarterly social gatherings

Black Spectacles is an equal opportunity employer.