QA Specialist

THE ROLE  

We are the true partner that delivers state of the art, highly scalable and dynamic software solutions, running in the cloud or on-premises. We help businesses create, update, or improve existing products in response to new opportunities and evolving market demands. Our partners operate in all industries, from travel and hospitality to the financial sector, insurance, energy, healthcare, and many more.
 

At Valcon we believe in fully owning our applications, right from writing the code, through to building, testing and maintaining our own infrastructure using AWS and utilizing continuous deployment. We pride ourselves on building amazing teams who strive to improve by day by day and enjoy taking on new challenges.
 

The primary responsibility of a QA Specialist will be to ensure system quality through our development projects. This includes testing all system changes through both manual and automation testing techniques by following the best practices and expert QA standards.

Our teams are moving quickly and are constantly improving, both in the way we work and the tools we use. If you love working with your team from the initial problem to delivering the best solution for our customers, this job is for you! 

The more complicated the projects you have been involved in the better; we are looking for a person with a “can do” attitude. 

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITES

  • Review acceptance criteria for all system changes, writing comprehensive test cases and running and verifying tests for the defined scenarios (manual, automated functional and non-functional).  
  • Creating test strategies and plans for new projects undertaken by the delivery team.  
  • Creating change requests for deployments to test environments.  
  • Be an active part of all Agile ceremonies in your assigned delivery team.  
  • Follow the prescribed defect life cycle process, assessing issue severity and priority, escalating as appropriate, maintaining ownership through to resolution. 
  • Develop a sound business understanding of SUT ensuring tests are defined and developed with close alignment to the business use of the system.  
  • Constantly developing the QA process both in project and internal practices
  • Working in a multi-disciplined team, using your experience to contribute to requirements analysis, development and support processes.  

 

WHAT WE OFFER

  • Working with modern technologies on interesting projects for international clients 
  • Cutting-edge IT equipment 
  • Above average days of paid annual leave 
  • One extra day of annual leave for every year in Valcon
  • An extra day off for a birthday
  • Additional health insurance policy 
  • Indefinite term contract 
  • Flexible work place and working hours 

Experience

  • Expert experience in software QA role – from planning to test implementation
  • Understanding and experience with Agile practices
  • Experience with web service and API testing (HTTP, REST, JSON, XML)
  • Experiennce with automated testing – Cypress, Specflow, Playwright, Selenium Webdriver, Cucumber, JMeter etc.
  • Previous experience of bug/issue tracking systems e.g. Jira
  • Understanding of software delivery lifecycle process
  • Desired understanding of web technologies such as HTTP protocols, HTML, CSS, JavaScript’s, etc.

Keywords

  • Quality Assurance
  • Automation testing
  • Reliable, proactive, detailed and focused

Location

Croatia

QA Specialist

    Job Primary Location: Croatia