Haystack News is the leading local & world news service on Connected TVs reaching millions of users! This is a unique opportunity to work at Haystack News, one of the fastest-growing TV startups in the world. We are already preloaded on 37% of all TVs shipped in the US!
Be part of a Silicon Valley startup and work directly with the founding team. Jumpstart your career by working with Stanford & Carnegie Mellon alumni and faculty who have already been part of other successful startups in Silicon Valley.
You should join us if you're hungry to learn how Silicon Valley startups thrive, you like to ship quickly and often, love to solve challenging problems, and like working in small teams.
Job functionsEstimate, prioritize, plan, and coordinate testing activities
Develop/execute test plans & test cases covering both manual & automated testing
Identify, record, document, and track bugs
Stay up to date with the latest testing methodologies and toolsets
Design and implementation of detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans
Assist our software developers in fixing problems, isolating bugs, and verifying solutions
Answer customer feedback requests and help troubleshoot customer issues.
Thorough understanding of QA processes (test case planning, documentation, requirements analysis, test automation, reporting and triage, bug reporting, regression & isolation)
Strong academic background (please include GPA on your application)
Strong problem-solving abilities and creative thinking skills
Experience with both black box and white box testing
Experience with Agile Methodologies
Passionate about high-quality products
Detail oriented
Works well in teams
Strong English communication skills
Software Development experience (HTML/CSS/Javascript/Node JS)
SQL/Database experience
Written UI tests using native frameworks, Espresso on Android and XCUI on iOS (great to have)
Experience with TestCafe,Cypress, Selenium or Puppeteer (great to have)
Experience building test automation with tools/frameworks (e.g. Appium, Espresso, Selenium, etc.)
Travel to team's offsite events
100% paid Uber rides to go to the office
Learn about multiple platforms
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