Job description
About Alexa Translations
Alexa Translations provides translation services in the legal, financial, and securities sectors by leveraging proprietary A.I. technology and a team of highly specialized linguistic experts. Unmatched in speed and quality, our machine translation engine is best-in-class and specifically trained for the French-Canadian market. If that wasn’t enough, our technology is backed by two decades of award-winning client service.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with SCRUM teams from the start of a sprint to deliver best-in-class technical solutions
- Develop test scenarios based on business requirements and designs for web applications and integration platforms
- Work with functional teams in reducing error rates and perform root cause analysis of errors/trends
- Partner with automation engineers to create a unified approach to automation across the team.
- Collaborate as part of a development team by providing a customer viewpoint
- Make suggestions/contributions for the improvement of software testing/quality
- Contribute in meetings, Scrums, and other inter-team interactions.
- Provide software and hardware capability assessments to outside departments.
- Research and make recommendations to the group regarding new technology available and its proper application.
Skills and Qualifications
- Minimum three (3) years software QA testing experience in an Agile development environment.
- Bachelor´s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Programming, Mathematics/Analytics or related field or equivalent experience.
- Ability to independently interpret requirements and technical specifications, translate into thorough test plans and test cases, and execute test cases
- Manual testing of desktop, web applications, APIs including the interactions with REST service endpoints through tools, such as Postman
- Experience with test management systems and bug-tracking systems such as JIRA.
- Attention to detail, ability to follow test plans and scripts, and good management skills.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
- Willingness to work in the Eastern time zone remotely.
- Fluent in English and French.
- Experience in working with BDD frameworks such as Cucumber.
Preferred Qualifications
- Proficiency in Java, JavaScript, and Python.
- Familiarity with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) processes.
- Experience with web application testing and tools such as TestComplete.
- Experience with API testing and tools such as REST Assured.
- Experience with performance testing and tools such as JMeter.
- Knowledge of SQL databases.
- Working knowledge of the following technologies:
- Text processing, Regular Expressions, knowledge of processing variety of documents
- CAT Tools such as: memoQ, SDL, Memsource
- Desire to develop professional skills through continued training and educational opportunities
- AWS Cloud Applications and Services Testing
- Fluent in Arabic, Spanish or other languages.
