Manual Quality Assurance Engineer | Austin, TX

Company: Digital Turbine
Position: Manual Quality Assurance Engineer
Experience: 3+ years
Work Location - Austin, TX

About the job

At Digital Turbine, we want to make mobile advertising experiences more meaningful and rewarding for users, app publishers, and advertisers — connecting Digital Turbine’s partners to more consumers, in more ways, across more devices. We provide app publishers with powerful ads and experiences that payoff, advertisers with powerful ads and experiences that fuel performance and captivate consumers, and help telecoms and OEMs to supercharge awareness, acquisition and monetization. In a rapidly changing industry, we are always looking to create better paths of discovery to connect consumers, publishers, and advertisers in the mobile ecosystem.

The Manual Quality Assurance Engineer will be responsible for QA on our mobile delivery platform. This individual will interact with business teams and software engineers to refine requirements, thoroughly test changes, drive automation as a core competency, and support software releases, using proven technical, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Key Responsibilities

Take ownership of software quality, using industry best practices for automation and manual testing
Actively participate in scrum meetings, iteration planning, feature demos, as well as write and execute software test plans and procedures in order to identify software issues and causes
Working on a product team, communicate testing estimates and status, while continually working toward the removal of software delivery roadblocks
Advocate use of agile test methodologies, such as behavioral-driven development or test-driven development
Provide expertise and support to other members of the engineering teams, particularly in resolving discovered issues
Perform manual testing where automated tests are in development or non-existent
Create and maintain a database of known test defects
Collaborate with project team members or customers to evaluate or diagnose problems and recommend possible solutions

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience
3+ years of QA experience, with demonstrable automation background
Demonstrated experience with front and back end automation tools and techniques
Experience using Cucumber or similar behavioral-driven development tools
Automated HTTP/Web/REST testing experience (Selenium, Capybara, Watir, etc)
Familiarity with Android, Microservice, and Cloud-based systems architecture
Comfortable and willing to choose manual testing over automation when the circumstances dictate
Must have demonstrated ability to develop and execute test cases for complex requirements
Mobile device testing experience, manual and automated
Exceptional analytical, organizational, interpersonal, and communication (both oral and written) skills
Familiarity with Android Application design, tools, and ecosystem
Experience with continuous integration systems (Jenkins, Bamboo, Travis CI, etc.)
Self-motivated, driven, resourceful, and able to get things done
Enjoy working in fast-paced, collaborative, Agile environments responsible for delivering commercial-grade software
The ability to adapt and learn quickly is a fundamental necessity

Skills & Experience

Experience working with SQL, NoSQL, and other data storage and retrieval technologies
Leader of quality automation initiatives inside an organization
Programming experience with interpreted language (Ruby, Python, Lua, etc)

About Digital Turbine:

Digital Turbine (NASDAQ: APPS) powers superior mobile consumer experiences and results for the world’s leading telcos, advertisers and publishers. Its end-to-end platform uniquely simplifies the ability to supercharge awareness, acquisition and monetization — connecting Digital Turbine’s partners to more consumers, in more ways, across more devices.

The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with global offices in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Berlin, Singapore, Tel Aviv, and other cities serving top agency, app developer, and advertising markets. Listed on Deloitte Technology Fast 500 for six consecutive years since 2015 and winner of Austin Chamber of Commerce’s Company Culture in 2020.

Digital Turbine is an equal opportunity employer and committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives!

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