Quality Assurance Engineer

Our Quality Assurance Team is looking for dedicated team members for our QA Team in Leiden, Netherlands and in New York, USA.

Job Description

As a Quality Assurance Engineer your role is to install and configure software and hardware test environments for web applications and standalone client and server-side applications within the company. You will be supporting financial reporting systems; advertising platforms; content management; core back-end, video quality and client teams You are responsible for verifying correct operation of software by writing test plans and test scripts and designing and programming automated tests. You will work close with development engineers in design and code reviews.

Experience

We are looking for all levels of experience; junior, senior and leads

Responsibilities:

  • Day to day issue handling

  • Issues range from very technical to more administrative in nature

  • Issues are logged and handled based on ITIL best practices (incidents and problems)

  • Assist with the creation of new documentation

  • Update standard mails, documentation, and solutions based on feedback from users and customers

  • Work with the engineering organization by reporting bugs and steps to reproduce

  • Have direct contact with content owners from locations all over the world including, the United Stated, the United Kingdom, and China

Job Requirements

  • B.S. or M.S. Computer Science, IT, engineering, or a similar field of study

  • Strong analytical, organizational, and technical skills

  • Self-motivated, with a demonstrated ability to create challenging but realistic schedules and meet them.

  • Ability and aptitude to learn new technologies and concepts

  • Knowledge of QA testing methodologies with experience in the software product life cycle from development to release

  • Experience with one or more programming, scripting, web languages such as C/C++, HTML, Java, J2EE, and XML

  • Excellent working knowledge with various software systems

  • Experience with Windows and/or Mac OS X and/or Unix

  • Experience with different browsers and chat applications

  • Knowledge of bug tracking and ticketing systems

  • Excellent communication, writing and presentation skills

  • Good written and spoken knowledge of English

What you can expect from us

  • A young and dynamic work environment

  • Actively involved in making improvements and meeting challenges

  • High level of delegated responsibilities and clear objectives to work towards

We are offering

  • A full-time position in Leiden, The Netherlands,

  • A competitive base salary, that will be based on proven experience, plus a discretionary annual bonus.

  • Reimbursement of relocation costs to The Netherlands according our internal policy.

  • Temporary housing is available.

Response

Please send your response to 08002tbs@jobs.joost.com and don't forget to add your CV in plain text or pdf.