Raya is a fast-growing startup focused on consumer social software, seeking a Manual QA Engineer to join their Quality Engineering team. The role involves end-to-end testing of key features and collaborating with the engineering organization to enhance testing strategies and app performance.
Responsibilities:
- Participate in an agile development environment, including daily standups
- Drive Quality Engineering efforts for internal and external product releases
- Prioritize and advocate for top-tier user experiences
- Design test strategy for existing and new features/experiments for both Raya and Places, by Raya
- Drive incident prioritization
- Work hand-in-hand with cross-functional teams (Product, Design, Client, and Server Engineering)
- Collaborate on an as-needed basis with Data, Community, and Support teams
- Participate in release processes for the entire company
- Host and manage internal company test sessions and dogfooding
- Assist the triage team with debugging and investigating support tickets
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience in manual QA within modern software development environments, supporting scalable mobile applications
- Experience navigating both the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Test Life Cycle (STLC)
- Experience working within agile methodologies across all development phases
- Proficient in Jira; experienced testing in sandbox environments, creating detailed test cases, using iOS Console, and maintaining up-to-date documentation
- Eagerness to embrace Raya's QA process, ethos and practices
- Excited about incorporating AI into QA best practices
- Strong collaborative instincts, emphasizing open communication, transparency, and cross-team interaction
- Industry experience testing applications for a variety of smartphones and tablets
- Ability to isolate defects effectively, as well as provide specific conditions for reproducibility
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Passion for quality in the mobile space
- Flexible mindset
- Proactive self-starter who is able to push back as needed
- Friendly and empathetic attitude
- Enjoys mentoring your colleagues
- Visionary: You think beyond the present, anticipating future technological trends and their implications on the Raya Community
- Empathetic Collaborator: You naturally resonate with colleagues, users, and collaborative teams, fostering a culture of understanding and innovation
- Growth-Oriented: You possess a perpetual learner's mindset, open to challenges, and always seeking opportunities to expand your technical horizons
- Impact-Driven: With a knack for identifying the 'big picture', you prioritize tasks that maximize impact, aligning with Raya's overarching goals