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AREA 17 is a brand and digital product agency based in Paris and New York. We solve problems to serve people.
QA Tester – Contract
Location
New York
Posted
17 days ago
Salary
$3K - $8.5K / month
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
QA Tester – Contract
AREA 17
• Oversee quality control of the application, addressing bugs raised by internal team members and clients. • Perform regression testing and cross-browser, cross-device, and cross-platform compatibility checks after each deployment to ensure no existing functionality is broken. • Develop and maintain test cases, test plans, and QA checklists tied to application features and releases. • Create user and administrator stories in requirements documentation • Log all bugs and errors in Jira (or other ticketing system), ensuring comprehensive documentation. • Escalate critical or blocker-level bugs promptly to the appropriate stakeholders and track status and resolution efforts. • Review and triage all client-reported issues, validating, prioritizing, and routing them within Jira for efficient resolution. • Verify bug fixes once resolved by the development team and close out tickets with clear acceptance notes. • Attend key project meetings and actively contribute QA status updates and risks. • Collaborate with Technical Director on monitoring application performance, helping to identify regressions, slowdowns, or anomalies in production and pre-production environments.
Job Requirements
- 3+ years of professional QA/software testing experience on web and/or mobile applications.
- Strong understanding of QA methodologies including functional testing, regression testing, smoke testing, exploratory testing, and UAT.
- Experience with automated testing frameworks such as Playwright and Pest
- High proficiency in writing in the English language
- Hands-on experience writing clear, reproducible bug reports and managing tickets in Jira (or comparable tools such as Linear, Asana, GitHub, or Azure).
- Proficiency with cross-browser and cross-device testing across modern browsers and on iOS and Android.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to translate technical issues for non-technical stakeholders and vice versa.
- Strong attention to detail and organized approach to testing.
- Comfort working within Agile/Scrum workflows, including participating in standups, sprint planning, and backlog grooming.
- Ability to work autonomously, manage your own time, and proactively flag blockers.
Benefits
- This is a 1099 contractor position.
- Project fee range $3000-8500, depending on final scope, timeline, and experience.
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