QA Tester (Contract)

ABOUT US

tms unites technology, marketing, and sourcing to drive transformational change for the world’s leading brands. With 1,200+ employees across 26 countries, we offer an impressive range of solutions – from inspiration and innovation to category management and delivery.

Operating as a creative agency, a strategic consultancy, a sourcing business, and a technology provider, we engage with over 110 million customers every single day for our clients, including McDonald’s, T-Mobile, O2, Starbucks, and adidas.

Most importantly, we're a place where you can achieve great things, and be recognized as the best.

WHAT MATTERS THE MOST

Breakthrough, business-driving ideas come from extraordinary people with the freedom to be their most authentic selves at work. Authenticity and diversity are critical elements of our business. They can only be realized when we create access and equity for all. We foster a culture of inclusion and belonging and aspire to be ever-evolving.

tms is a place where brilliant people are better together. If you want your ideas to be heard and to contribute to a culture of inclusion and authenticity, bring us your voice! Visit us at tmsw.com.

WHY WE THINK YOU WILL LOVE THIS ROLE

This position is all about bringing ideas and questions to the table, learning from your peers as well as hands-on experience. The work is focused on continuous development of a product with ambitious concepts and problems to solve, and our team will eagerly support your journey along the way.

WHAT YOU WILL BRING TO THE ORGANIZATION

Participate in all aspects of QA lifecycle. These include: QA estimating & planning, QA reporting & documentation, walkthroughs and inspections

Execution of integration, white box, functionality, regression, load, performance and acceptance testing on delivery timelines

Responsible for Defect management including the identification, reporting, tracking and triaging of defects using Jira and XRay for Jira

Monitor and implement improvements to the QA process

Research, recommend and administer QA tools

Work with the development team to help them to understand and reproduce issues

Intervene and call out issues when they pose a threat to project quality

Maintain documentation & results for the projects over which they have QA responsibility

Review Test cases/scenarios to make sure all requirements are covered

Fulfill all the roles of QA Specialist on projects where he/she is participating

Represent QA at interdepartmental meetings (e.g. strategy sessions, emergency conferences, etc.)

Support production deployments, when required

Share testing results to partners to enable them to make decisions regarding go/no go live

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE WE WOULD LIKE YOU TO HAVE

2 - 7 years experience with formal test methods and quality assurance programs in an internet/software development environment

Experience with thorough API testing using Postman

Some familiarity with testing using a proxying tool such as Charles or Fiddler

using and administering testing tools (eg Browser Stack, Selenium, etc)

excellence in the preparation and execution of formal test cases, scripts and scenarios

to test and verify against WCAG Accessibility standards using related testing tools

ability to prioritize, delegate, track and coordinate multiple tasks

with multiple web browsers and operating systems, and an understanding of their differences and issues

to examine application logs and familiarity with YAML, JSON and XML

ability to meet deadlines and deliver against ambitous schedule pressures

interpersonal skills

teammate; Collaborate effectively with the cross functional team

communication skills (written and verbal)

in working in agile or other sprint-based work process

displaying a penchant for detail and precision

demeanor towards work, environment and co-workers

or familiarity with, one or more web development tools (e.g. JAVA, HTML, Oracle, PHP)