QA & Release Manager

Job Responsibilities

• Work together with a small team of software engineers and support them for software releases by being responsible for the quality of the app through comprehensive testing efforts.
• Lead the QA team by establishing and carrying out the test routine process with testers.
• Work together with different teams including non engineering stakeholders
• to understand and address their concerns with regards with the quality of the app.
• Collaborate with the product team to understand the requirements and agree on the acceptance criteria.
• Highlight issues with team leads and push back releases on the product manger when quality is compromised.
• Participate in project meetings to communicate QA plans, schedule or scope changes as well as roadblocks faced.
• Deliver timely reports of test progress, results and product quality metrics to product owners according to schedule.
• Develop, establish and enforce a defect life cycle to process reported bugs
• Automate manual testing where applicable.
• Document, triage, de-duplicate and test reported defects.
• Update regression tests according to the latest product changes.
• Perform and sign off on successful regression testing at the end of a new feature release.
• Keep the bug tracker database organized and clean. Cull orphaned andstale issues when no longer required.
• Stay up to date with new testing tools and strategies.

Pre-Requisites

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in QA or developer role.
• Experienced in functional, usability and performance testing.
• Worked with common bug tracking tools like JIRA, Bugzilla, Mantis, etc.
• Actually knows how to use git to pull and build latest version of different branches for testing.
• Good english communication and documentation skills.

Special Considerations

• A user who loves to create videos and posting them to various socialnetwork apps.
• Experience with DevOps / CICD tools such as Jenkins.
• Previous project management experience or PMP certified.

1. 1st Round with Recruiter -> Gary
2. 2nd round with Hiring Manager 
3. Final round with founder