Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer

MNGi Product & Technology:
Quality Assurance Engineer:
We'd love you to join our growing product and technology team whose mission is to create people-centric software experiences that empower our local news and digital partners. True to our purpose, we help small teams play big!
Be part of a digital media landscape in the midst of rapid change; our team is at the center of a new content, marketing, operations, and revenue-sustainable experience that puts product, people and performance first. You will be a key member of our WordPress content management system agile team focused on building reliable, trusted web sites that engage with customers across the many US media markets in our portfolio, such as the Denver Post, San Jose Mercury News, the Boulder Daily Camera and the St. Paul Pioneer Press, as well as our Adtaxi digital marketing agency. Check out our local news portfolio to see if we operate in a market near you.
About This Role:
The Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer is a member of a scrum team that focuses on shipping quality, valuable software that meets requirements as efficiently and quickly as possible. As such, the QA Engineer is responsible for understanding the customer problem and the intended solution and translating that behavior into test cases. They are responsible for writing, maintaining and updating test cases, leveraging automation whenever possible while ensuring the team incorporates automation into the technology roadmap to improve testing efficiency. During development, the QA Engineer's role is to proactively address potential bugs or negative tests that might not be considered and provide immediate feedback to the developers to ensure the product works as intended while limiting re-work. The QA Engineer also is involved in continuous improvement through self-education of testing and industry best practices as well as through team retrospectives and innovation sprints and contributes to the improvement of ongoing quality control.
In this position you will be working with an established scrum team to test and release features and improvements for a news web site ecosystem based in WordPress. A strong candidate will be versed in the system and comfortable working with multiple sites and systems on a daily basis. They should be comfortable writing bugs and stories using agile methodology and comfortable raising issues within the team.
Certifications, experience, training, education required:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, in a related field or 1+ years of relevant Software Engineer experience with 2+ years QA experience
• Documenting, executing, and organizing test plans for nearly 100 websites
• Applying different testing techniques (e.g. white/black box, happy/sad path, etc) to find potentially expensive bugs
• 2+ years of experience working with the following:
  
  • Browser diagnostic tools
  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • JSON

• Web/browser application test experience with tools like Katalon, Selenium or Cypress
• Test Automation experience a plus
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environment a plus
• Familiarity with digital media a plus

The annual salary range is from $90,000 - $100,000 dollars. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, time in role, certifications, etc. This role is eligible for a bonus based on performance. In addition to your salary, MediaNews Group offers a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).
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