Senior QA Tester - contract

At Horizontal Digital, we hold ourselves to one key belief: You’re only as good as your worst customer experience. This mantra is what drives our digital consultancy to think beyond the easy answers and instead create websites, apps, portals and other experiences that solve customer needs for Fortune 500 companies in intuitive and empathetic ways. And we make this lofty standard a reality by fusing strategy, data, design and technology together to arrive at solutions that set the bar higher for everyone.

We use these values to fuel superior results:

Lock arms
We forge relationships that make our impact 1,000x stronger. This means working across departments and engaging both our clients and our communities to deliver the greatest good.

Show hustle
We’re not ones to sit on our hands and wait. Instead, we anticipate opportunities, collectively roll up our sleeves and find ways to execute the exceptional.

Embrace change
From new technologies to workplace philosophies, we welcome the unexpected and constantly anticipate what’s next.

Elevate empathy
We listen before we take action. This means understanding a variety of perspectives and holding ourselves to a higher standard of accountability.

Never settle
We motivate each other to push past the easy answers and collectively arrive at bigger, more inspiring ideas.

But enough about us. Let’s talk about you.

As a Sr. Quality Analyst at Horizontal key responsibilities start from understanding requirements till the final delivery of the end project. Proactive communication, active participation in all meetings and discussions, appropriate test planning and delivery of required documents are the key areas to focus on. The candidate applying for this role is expected to have 5 - 8 years of Manual Testing experience. Desirably in Web Testing. 

What you’ll do:

In addition to the routine testing activities that a Quality Analyst would do 

• Understand the scope of work and craft comprehensive test strategy / plan documents 
• Write robust test cases, perform test executions, and create test and bug reports 
• Contribute (not only participate) in Scrum / Sprint ceremonies and provide inputs from QA perspective 
• Follow industry best practices and encourage other team members to do so  
• Be a team player and step up as and when needed to help the team 
• Attend and contribute to the stakeholder meetings to collect as well as showcase information of the work done 

Who you are:

• Having decent knowledge and experience on salient Sitecore features 
• Worked on widely used domains or understand the same, if not worked 
• Experienced in writing clear, concise, and comprehensive test case and other deliverables 
• Experienced in test estimation 
• Experienced on all commonly used Black box testing techniques 
• Experienced in Waterfall and Agile/Scrum development processes 

• Experienced in use of a Test Management System like TestRail, Zephyr, QMetry, qTest etc. 
• Experienced in use of a Ticketing system like Jira and document / information management tool like Confluence 

What you bring:

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineer, or a related subject 
• Proven work experience in Software Testing 5 to 8 years 
• Experience or Knowledge on Sitecore Experience Platform (XP) or any CMS 

The above description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.