Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

Please note: This is a remote USA 1099 contract position (note: we do not hire C2C candidates)

Who we are:   At Hypergiant, our work is driven by individuals pushing the boundary and always professionally challenging our clients to think differently. We’re seeking individuals who are both analytical and creative and can help us fuel our motto: Know Tomorrow, Act Today. We’re based in Texas and have a strong track record of working with some of the biggest brands around the world in industries spanning retail, oil & gas, energy, aviation, healthcare, and more. We provide large enterprises with cutting-edge advice, bespoke technology solutions, and deployment expertise needed to harness the value out of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Our goal is to work with forward-thinking organizations and to help them understand how Artificial Intelligence will affect their business and their industry.

We’re seeking a Senior Quality Analyst for one of the biggest music streaming companies. As a champion of quality engineering, you’ll have a huge impact on the quality of this company’s growing suite of products and services. You will be involved in all testing activities throughout the SDLC. You will leverage your knowledge and experience in testing to influence better software design, promote best practices, and introduce bug prevention strategies, testability, and other advanced quality concepts across products. 

What you’ll do: 

• Analyze business requirements, design documentation, and technical specifications to ensure that they are clearly defined, complete, and testable, and develop manual test strategies against them
• Create and execute test plans, test cases, and test scripts to verify new and existing software functionality
• Test applications via Black Box, Regression, Release, and Negative testing methods
• Identify issues/bugs and report to developers and product owners
• Demonstrate ability to isolate & troubleshoot technical issues by leveraging software testing methodologies and tools
• Validate fixes and new features
• Collaborate with other Quality Analysts and Engineers on significant initiatives and feature testing
• Provide status updates during the testing cycle
• Work with the automation team to help coordinate the automation of manual tests
• Proactively learn the backend infrastructure, services, APIs, and new testing and technology trends that will impact testing of upcoming releases

What you’ll need: 

• 3-5 years of experience in a Quality Assurance manual testing role
• Understands key business drivers; uses this understanding to accomplish own work
• Experience with TestRail or XRay as well as previous SQL query experience
• Comfortable with basic Unix commands
• Phenomenal time experience, track record of delivering high quality products while meeting scheduling commitments
• Good public speaking and presentation skills, interpersonal skills and ability to interact and work with staff and external partners at all levels
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work independently and within a team
• High attention to detail and well-organized
• Ability to handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
• Commitment to both internal and external client quality and customer advocacy
• Willingness to take initiative and to follow through on projects

 Hypergiant Industries is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome and encourage diversity in the workplace. Learn more at hypergiant.com.