Manual QA Engineer - (Remote - US)

Description

Mediavine is seeking a Manual QA Engineer to join our Engineering team. We are looking for someone who enjoys solving interesting and complex problems and wants to work with a small team of talented engineers on a product used by thousands of publishers. If you're excited about working in a collaborative environment, then this is the role for you! Applicants must be based in the United States.

About Mediavine

Mediavine is a fast-growing advertising management company representing over 7,500 websites in the food, lifestyle, DIY, and entertainment space. Founded by content creators, for content creators, Mediavine is a Top 20 Comscore property, exclusively reaching over 125 million monthly unique visitors. With best-in-class technology and a commitment to traffic quality and brand safety, we ensure optimal performance for our creators.

Mission & Culture

We help content creators build sustainable businesses. From educational tools and cutting-edge plugins to ad technology that maximizes earnings without slowing down your site, our motivation is to ensure your brand and business grow in every respect.

We are striving to build an inclusive and diverse team of highly talented individuals that reflects the industries we serve and the world we live in. We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels welcomed. We are looking for individuals that will challenge us to continuously evolve and make Mediavine the employer of choice for people of all backgrounds. We strongly encourage minorities and individuals from underrepresented groups in technology to apply for this position.

Diversity and inclusion aren't platitudes to us; we take them seriously.

Position Overview

As a Manual QA Engineer here at Mediavine, you’ll work within our “Owned & Operated” team and portfolio of websites, including the company and Pubnation sites. Candidates must possess demonstrated manual testing experience with WordPress theme frameworks and plugins as this role will lean into site migration testing, redesigns and social share plugin testing.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Partner with QA team members to define tooling that enables improving testing efficiency, coverage and reliability for Mediavine’s product suite
• Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases
• Identify, record, document and thoroughly track bugs
• Perform rigorous regression testing when bugs are resolved
• Develop and apply testing processes for new and existing products to meet product needs
• Partner with internal teams (e.g. developers and product managers) to further identify product requirements and user expectations
• Track quality assurance metrics (e.g. defect densities and open defect counts)
• As business needs change, be flexible in learning and applying your skills and experience on other product teams

Requirements

Location:

• Applicants must be based in the United States

You Have:

• 4+ years of experience in the software quality assurance field
• Strong understanding of CSS/HTML, Javascript, WordPress and similar CMS
• Experience with API testing using Postman
• Demonstrated experience with Wordpress plugin/theme testing
• Experience with Manual testing
• Deep understanding of core software QA methodologies, tools and processes
• Proven desktop and mobile device debugging, documentation and troubleshooting skills
• Demonstrated ability of writing clear, comprehensive test plans, test cases and bug reports
• Goal driven and product-oriented mindset
• Ability to work independently and also as a reliable team member
• Experience working on a distributed/remote team

Nice to haves:

• Test automation experience or willingness to learn (Cypress, WebdriverI0, TestCafe or similar automation tools)
• Experience with Github & command line
• Basic understanding of Node.js, and React
• Experience with relational database testing
• Experience with performance, visual, accessibility and/or security testing (k6, Percy or similar platforms)

Benefits

• Remote work environment
• Travel opportunities (remember those?!)
• Comprehensive benefits including 401k, Health, Dental, and Vision insurance.
• Learning allowance
• Generous Vacation/Time off policies
• Additional side benefits such as home-office upgrades, tuition reimbursement, paid gym memberships and wellness retreats, upgraded flights, cool swag and more
• Company match charitable donations

Mediavine is an Equal Opportunity Employer