Description

Would you like to work with the world’s best problem-solvers, pioneers, and out-of-the-box thinkers? Does the prospect of being in a key role towards quality delivery excite you? We are looking to add a new QA Engineer II to support our Technology Team. As our QA Engineer, you would play a significant role in our QA technology practice and build upon our capabilities.

In this role you would monitor every phase of the development process to ensure that the design, software, and websites adhere to company standards. Launches of websites and timely software releases are a key to success, so it's vital for releases to meet target dates and stay within budget. This role will be instrumental in helping the tech team meet deadlines by breaking up the requirements of development and acceptance criteria into attainable testing goals and relaying any issues back to the development and product teams or leaders. This position reports to the QA Manager and is based in Chicago, IL at our headquarters.  

Core responsibilities:

• Is adept in working in short and long-term technology projects.
• Assists with tech team members in the QA and test processes.
• Works with website implementation teams and software development teams.
• Document test cases
• Record test progress and results
• Create test plans
• Develop standards and procedures to determine product quality and release readiness
• Discover bugs within software
• Drive innovation and streamline overall testing processes
• Identify, isolate, and track bugs throughout testing
• Identify any potential problems that users might encounter
• Perform manual and automated testing
• Some light coding of automated tests
• Research and analyze product features being tested
• Research new tools, technologies, and testing processes
• Review user interfaces for consistency and functionality

Requirements

• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience.
• Have at least 3 - 4 years professional work experience in QA engineering.
• Able to self-manage and prioritize daily work with limited direction
• Exceptional organizational skills and a strong attention to detail
• Familiarity with both Agile and Waterfall lifecycles of delivery.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to communicate effectively between different disciplines (development, creative, marketing, admissions, etc.) and personality types
• Experience working collaboratively with a tech team.

Preferred qualifications

• Some experience with test management tools like Xray, TestRail, or Testpad.
• Some experience with testing languages such as Gherkin.
• Some experience with frameworks like Selenium (Java) for executing scripts in functional and regression testing.
• Some experience with tools like Cucumber for Behavior Driven Development (BDD).
• Experience with SEO spider website crawlers like Screaming Frog.
• Experience with Monday.com, Confluence, Google G-Suite, Trello, Smartsheets, Salesforce, Jira, and BitBucket.
• Experience working with team collaboration tools such as Slack.
• Experience simultaneously working on multiple projects for a large portfolio of clients.
• Experience working with web and software development teams.
• Bonus experience: 3+ years professional work experience in higher education.

About Everspring

Everspring, Inc. is an ed-tech trailblazer. We create customized, integrated digital solutions that enable top universities to design and deliver their programs online, with excellence. Our exceptional technology platform and complementary services empower universities to focus on teaching engaging content that transforms lives. 

We offer a range of full-service turnkey solutions and fee-for-service offerings, as well as a set of innovative standalone products. We deliver industry-leading outcomes in academics and instructional design; market research and program design; marketing and lead generation; recruitment and enrollment services; student support and retention services; and technology infrastructure and analytics. Our proprietary methodologies yield uniquely tailored solutions that drive tangible value for our university partners, their faculty, and their students. 

Based in Chicago, Everspring serves a growing number of colleges and universities.  Built In Chicago has named us one of the "Best Places to Work" in 2021.

Everspring is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. Everspring makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.