Freelance QA Analyst, Mobile (UK Remote / Maternity Cover)

Who We Are

Our romantic relationship with our partner is one of the most important parts of our lives, but building and maintaining a happy relationship over time can be challenging. We want to make the journey easier.

We believe in the daily practice of love, and through our award-winning mobile app launched in October 2020, we've been helping couples connect in a fun, effective, and affordable way. Recognised as one of Google's Best Apps of 2020 and Apple App of the Day in January 2023, we proudly serve over 250,000 users daily, establishing ourselves as the #1 player in the relationship management category.

Work Setup and Compensation

• As a freelancer, you’ll work entirely remotely and report to one of our Engineering Managers
• You’ll work 40 hours per week from Monday to Friday
• You’ll be paid £280 per day
• The contract will be limited for 6-9 months, ideally from June 2024 - February 2025

Description

We are looking for a QA Analyst contractor to join our Product team for maternity cover. Your primary goals will be to ensure, protect, and improve the quality of the Paired mobile apps, and to help grow the standards of QA across the organisation.

As part of the tech team, you will help balance the demands of rapid product development with stability and a bug-free customer experience.

This is a unique opportunity to bring a product loved by millions of couples to the mainstream and work with colleagues who have extensive experience shipping top-grossing apps.

What Your Role Encompasses

• Help document, organise, track, and prioritise known issues in JIRA
• Create, plan and execute detailed test plans for the Paired mobile apps
• Work together with the Customer Support team to process incoming issue reports and monitor the live performance of our app
• Carry out thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved and before weekly app releases
• Assist with the releases of the mobile apps and website along with stakeholders
• Drive improvements to the quality of the product by analysing data and user feedback
• Collaborate with engineering squads to verify the correct functionality of their work and to define acceptance criteria for existing and new features
• Be a part of the product design and ideation process, to identify gaps and highlight potential edge cases

Requirements

• You have a lot of QA experience (consumer-facing mobile apps for 2+ years preferred) in agile teams
• You are creative and think outside the box
• You are organised, rigorous, and a good communicator
• You commit to and take pride in producing high-quality work
• You are familiar with the tools of the trade, such as JIRA and XRay
• You are a resident of the UK, legally entitled to work as a freelancer, and comfortable with remote work

Diversity & Inclusion at Paired

• Our core value is championing relationships. Our app was built to serve all couples regardless of culture, gender, sexual orientation, and ethnicity
• We strive to create an inclusive environment where unique perspectives are encouraged, as we firmly believe that diversity enhances our company, culture and product. We’re looking for people from a range of different backgrounds across age, disability, gender and gender re-assignment, relationship status, sexual orientation, parenthood and pregnancy, race or nationality, and/or religion or belief
• We regularly review our hiring processes, materials and pipeline to ensure they are accessible and free of bias, offering equal opportunity to underrepresented groups. We are also always learning. We maintain open minds and welcome feedback on how we can improve, no matter where it comes from
  
  

And one last thing…

Excited by our business but not sure if you meet the job criteria? Not to worry! If you feel you have that special something and could contribute to our mission, get in touch anyway. We are always looking to add great people and we know that you are more than your CV. We would encourage you to apply regardless as we don’t believe that ticking off a list of skills is the only thing that makes a great candidate.