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Quality Assurance Software Engineer

Employer
The Washington Post
Location
Washington, DC
Closing date
Dec 7, 2022

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Industry
Engineering
Function
QA Engineer, IT
Hours
Full Time
Career Level
Experienced (Non-Manager)
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Job Description

Owned by Jeff Bezos, Arc XP ( https://www.arcxp.com/ ) is a state-of-the-art digital experience platform engineered to meet the demands of enterprise brands and media and entertainment companies around the world. An integrated ecosystem of cloud-based tools, Arc helps create and distribute content, drive digital commerce, and deliver powerful multichannel experiences to both internal and external audiences. Today, Arc powers more than 1,400 sites across 23 countries, reaching over 1.5 billion unique monthly visitors.

Built 100% on AWS, the Arc platform follows a microservice architecture. All of our software teams use devops to deliver and maintain products. Our processes are lightweight, which allows our teams to innovate quickly to bring new ideas to market. New features and products are deployed to our customer base every day.

We are currently looking for a QA Engineer to join our platform engineering team to perform sprint/story validation and release regression testing for one or two of our products. In addition to manual testing the QA Engineer will contribute to the automated test suite along with the feature software engineers as well as manage the test suites through CI/CD pipelines.

Motivational:
  • You are a self-starter and energized to problem-solve
  • You are organized, driven and eager to deliver quality solutions
  • You embrace the opportunity to learn and grow across multiple project teams
  • You have an aptitude for simplifying complexity and communicating ideas


Responsibilities:
  • Create testing design documentation per project team by department standards.
  • Support collection and reporting of project and software metrics.
  • Actively seeking for opportunities to enhance standard practices and improve process efficiency.
  • Work hand in hand with engineers to produce the highest quality product.
  • Be a vocal contributor in agile team ceremonies adding testing perspective on detailing story details, delivering sprint commitments, and retrospective ideas.
  • Review story acceptance criteria, User Experience (UX) designs, and produce lightweight test cases for new product development performed in the sprint.
  • Work with Development and Project Management team to ensure issues are resolved in a timely manner and testing coverage is met.
  • Test stories based on the test cases, logging defects when required.
  • Build and manage comprehensive test regression suites by adding new product development test cases on a consistent and on-going basis.
  • Perform regression suite testing based on the product release schedule.
  • Support and validate feature releases.
  • Automate the regression suite using the testing frameworks implemented by the platform engineering team using tools such as Selenium, TestCafe, Cypress.
  • Own the bug backlog for your product(s), representing the most critical bugs to the Product Owner and Engineering Manager so the bug criticality is understood, and the work is appropriately prioritized for resolution.
  • Work in collaboration with other QA Engineers to produce common quality practices across our engineering teams.
  • Work in collaboration with the Application Support Engineering team to share product knowledge.
  • Interact with other teams, and sometimes customers, of the Arc platform to gather product feedback and to improve the products.
  • Responsible for programming test conditions, testing, implementations, documentation, maintenance and suppose of system application software.


Minimum Qualifications:
  • Up to 12 months of experience in software engineering field, testing new or rapidly evolving software delivered by an engineering team in an agile software development process (Kanban and/or Scrum).
  • Basic understanding and knowledge of Software Engineering Concepts and methodologies.
  • Experience maintaining and executing a regression test suite within a test case management tool such as Xray, TestRail, Zephyr.
  • Proficient written and oral communication skills.
  • Exceptional written and oral communication skills.
  • Highly driven and resourceful.
  • Strong ability to collaborate.
  • Ability to take on challenges and address problems head-on to and find a solution.

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Experience testing cloud-based applications.
  • Knowledge in Testing methodologies, Scrum/Kanban
  • Experience contributing to public software documentation.
  • Experience with DevOps teams that own the full engineering lifecycle.
  • Experience working in a global business with customers across multiple time zones.


Wherever you are in your life or career, The Washington Post offers comprehensive and inclusive benefits for every step of your journey:

  • Competitive medical, dental and vision coverage
  • Company-paid pension and 401(k) match
  • Three weeks of vacation and up to three weeks of paid sick leave
  • Nine paid holidays and two personal days
  • 20 weeks paid parental leave for any new parent
  • Robust mental health resources
  • Backup care and caregiver concierge services
  • Gender affirming services
  • Pet insurance
  • Free Post digital subscription
  • Leadership and career development program


Benefits may vary based on the job, full-time or part-time schedule, location, and collectively bargained status

The Post strives to provide its readers with high-quality, trustworthy news and information while constantly innovating. That mission is best served by a diverse, multi-generational workforce with varied life experiences and perspectives. All cultures and backgrounds are welcomed.

Company

Thank you for your interest in a career with The Washington Post. We invite you to review all of our open positions to find the one that's right for you. We look forward to receiving your resume!


Since it first began publication more than 130 years ago, The Washington Post has grown into one of the most storied and respected news organizations in the world. A subsidiary of The Washington Post Company, today's Post is the indispensable guide to Washington. In print, we enjoy the highest penetration of any major metropolitan newspaper in the United States. On the web, we have the third largest news website with 17 million unique visitors each month, and have recently launched a celebrated news app for the iPad. We serve Washington in all media, on any platform, including paid products, events, and tailored content.

More broadly, The Washington Post Company delivers quality products to today's students, readers and viewers. What unites our company is the immediacy of our products and services, created by teachers and tutors at Kaplan; reporters and editors at our media properties; and associates at Cable ONE.
Washington Post Media views its employees as its most valuable asset and provides a comprehensive benefits package to promote healthy and balanced lives at work and at home. We offer competitive salaries, opportunities for training and career advancement and an outstanding, progressive benefits package including:
Health and dental benefits
Flexible healthcare and dependent care spending accounts
401(k) and company-funded cash balance plan
Life and disability insurance
Tuition reimbursement
Adoption assistance
Domestic partner benefits
Employee assistance program
Employee referral program
 

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