Blue Acorn iCi is HIRING A

QA Lead

šŸ“ United States šŸŒ Fully Remote ā° Contract
POSTED February 4, 2025

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  • Must design and support the implementation ofverification and validation processes, including early software defect detection and removal, inspection, and testing methods.

  • Must possess a detailed understanding of how, when, and why to performquality assurance and testing activities across the software development lifecycle, analyzing test strategies, developing test plans and processes, and specifying entry and exit conditions for activities.

  • Must guide teams throughrisk managementactivities and promote understanding of the fundamental positive (enhance, exploit, or share) and negative risk responses (avoid, mitigate, transfer), including choices to accept risks where appropriate.

  • Must guide teams throughroot cause analysis, surfacing opportunities to address quality issues as close as possible to their source and support teams in continuous improvement.

  • Mustunderstand common web technologies and software development processes,and describe fundamental risks associated with technology and process changes.

  • Must be able to contribute toquality inspectionsof requirements, designs, data to be used by the product, and technical specifications, to determine fitness for use and where changes or clarifications are required.

  • Must proactively demonstrate abilities toidentify relevant resourcesrelated to work,acquire competence in new subject areas quickly,and engage inknowledge sharing.

  • Must function effectively in aco-located, fast-paced, dynamic environment, that values high interaction, strong working relationships, and of course, ping pong.

  • Available to occasionally travel to meet the project team in person in Boilingbrook, Illinois (near Chicago)

  • Adobe and Adobe Experience Platform experience is highly preferred

  • Bachelorā€™s degree or equivalent work experience

  • Minimum of 2+ years of work experience guiding development teams through execution of quality assurance and testing activities for websites. Candidates with limited experience guiding teams will be considered if a substantial scope is met of the preferred skills/experience.

  • Deep experience inweb application testing, including highly-trafficked public-facing sites with fullyresponsiveuser interfaces.

  • Experience in the execution of quality assurance and testing withinAgile methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban.

  • Complementary skills to support software development and consulting teams, such as an ability toautomateportions of testing workflows, performmultiple forms of analysis,and deliver attractivedemosof the product.

  • Any amount of web development, scripting, API testing, and dataexperience is valued, including front-end (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript), back-end (any of Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, Perl), Apache Web Server, API testing (cURL, REST, SOAP), caching (CDNs), regular expressions, query languages (Query DSL, SQL), extract transform load (ETL), and common data formats (XML, JSON). Level required for job is basic with a commitment to learning where gaps exist.

  • Understanding ofbest practicesof web design and development.

  • Understanding of how web products fit within broadercustomer experiences(CX).

  • Creativity torecognize opportunitiesto improve product quality and the ability topackagethem in ways that will resonate with product owners.

  • Ability to conductsoftware quality assessmentsin any of the following areas:accessibility(to WCAG 2.1 Level AA),site performance(profiling, load testing),contentperformance(UX, analytics, SEO, SMO),data privacy(GDPR, GLBA, HIPAA, PCI, SOX), orsecurity(reviews, penetration testing).

  • Evidence ofcommunity engagementsuch as supporting meetups, workshops, conferences, bootcamps, or industry events.

Full Time, Non-Temporary Employees enjoy a competitive benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision insurance, life insurance, disability, paid time off, 401(k), and more! Additional perks vary by location.

Blue Acorn iCi is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, spouse of protected veteran, or disability.

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Blue Acorn iCi will endeavor to make a reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitations of a qualified applicant with a disability unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. If you believe you require such assistance to complete this form or to participate in an interview, please contact us at: engagement@blueacornici.com.

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