The Critical Mass technology team is looking for an experienced QA Specialist to join our team. We are an experience design agency with a focus on the customer, which means that multi-discipline collaboration is at the heart of our process. An Intermediate QA Specialist works closely with the QA lead & QA teammates, subject matter experts, project managers, designers & developers to ensure QA standards are met & projects delivered to the clients satisfaction. They provide execution of QA tasks with speed & accuracy for the overall agility of the QA team

Please note that this position is marked as a short-term W2 Project Employee.
This position can be done remotely depending on location within the US.

You Will:

• Be co-responsible for the quality of projects based on the requirements & design specifications
• Apply industry standard testing methodology, strategies, & best practices
• Create defect tickets based on test findings & track fixes to completion
• Attend daily stand ups or scrums on behalf of the team
• Communicate testing status, results, issues, & risks to project team members, & QA management through a variety of channels
• Create & maintain testing documentation such as the test plan, test cases, test data & testing progress checklists
• Direct junior team members on testing practices & tasks as required

You Have:

• 2-4 years of experience in software quality assurance
• Experience in Agile methodologies for software development
• Experience working with local & offshore teams
• Understanding of the project life cycle & standard practices for a varity of test types
• Experience developing test cases for functional & non-functional testing based on project requirements

You May Have:

• Bachelors degree in software engineering, project management, business, or related field
• ISTQB or other QA industry Certification
• Familiarity with collaboration & issue tracking tools such as Box, Jira, Confluence
• Experience in level-of-effort estimation & team management