Mid-level QA Engineer

This is a great opportunity for a Mid-level QA Engineer with experience testing complex desktop and web applications (back-end, integration between various services, API testing).

We are looking for a motivated QA Engineer who will perform software testing activities of our premier PDF formatting software. You will work as part of a distributed agile team and as part of RWS's global organization. Our XPP software is utilized by some of the largest corporations, government branches, and military agencies across the world! Read more about XPP and the Contenta Publishing Suite on our website: https://www.rws.com/xpp/

About Contenta 

Key Responsibilities

• Be actively involved in all QA activities in the team
• Support manual testing and existing automated test framework
• Prepare the test environment by installing and configuring the software under the test on existing VMs (Windows, Linux). Continuously keep the test environment up to date with the latest builds
• Perform manual testing of new features and regression testing against multiple platforms
• Test back-end part of services as well as integration between various services
• Help supporting existing Perl, Python automation scripts, API testing (REST)
• Perform product testing in Cloud (AWS, Kubernetes, Docker)
• Bug reporting and bug tracking (JIRA) and test cases management in TestRail
• Proactively be involved in planning and discussing QA strategies, plans, and scope for test automation
• Keep detailed QA documentation (Confluence) on how to work with/configure new features, services, etc. to share knowledge between the team
• Follow existing QA Best practices during day-to-day activities
• Work closely with the QA Manager and other QA team members. Continuously collaborate with the DEV/scrum team
• Achieve goals as part of a Scrum team to deliver functionality, enhancements, and fixes on schedule

Skills & Experience

• Must have 5+ years of experience as QA engineer testing complex desktop and web applications
• Degree in computer science or related field
• Linux proficiency
• Strong understanding of web applications and technologies like JWT tokens, HTTPS, web servers, REST APIs, XML data format, JavaScript, AJAX, cookies/sessions, browser differences
• Knowledge and experience in API testing
• Working experience performing different types of functional and non-functional testing
• Strong knowledge of software testing theory, methodologies, processes, and best practices
• Ability to configure and maintain test environments across multiple platforms (VMWare)
• Excellent experience with test cases management (preferably TestRail)
• Basic scripting experience for test automation (Bash, Shell, Perl, Python)
• Cloud platform knowledge (AWS, Azure, EC2 etc.) 
• Experience with CI/CD concepts and tools (Jenkins, GitHub, GitLab, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, etc.)
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies (preferably Scrum)
• Team player with strong interpersonal skills comfortable working as part of a distributed team 
• Ability to quickly learn and tackle new or unfamiliar technologies
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to troubleshoot complex issues
• Excellent collaboration skills
• Strong written and spoken English

As a plus:

• Experience in publishing or content management
• Experience in performance or/and load testing and usage of monitoring tools (JMeter or similar)
• Experience with setting up secure Web Servers

At RWS, we’re here for one purpose: unlocking global understanding.

As a unique, world-leading provider of technology-enabled language, content, and intellectual property services, we remove the barriers to communication to make global connection possible. Our unrivalled experience and deep understanding of language have been developed over more than 60 years. As we look to shape the future, our ambition is to create a world where understanding is universal for everyone.

We work with over 80% of the world’s top 100 brands, more than three-quarters of Fortune’s 20 ‘Most Admired Companies’ and almost all the top pharmaceutical companies, investment banks, law firms and patent filers. Our client base spans Europe, Asia Pacific and North and South America. Our 65+ global locations across five continents service clients in the automotive, chemical, financial, legal, medical, pharmaceutical, technology and telecommunications sectors.   

Over the past 20 years we’ve been evolving our own AI solutions as well as helping clients to explore, build and use multilingual AI applications. With 45+ AI-related patents and more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, we have the experience and expertise to support clients on their AI journey.

If you like the idea of working with smart people who are passionate about breaking down language barriers and giving back to their communities, then you’ll love life at RWS. Our work fundamentally recognizes the value of every language and culture. So, we celebrate difference, we are inclusive and believe that diversity makes us strong.

We want every employee to grow as an individual and excel in their career. In return, we expect all our people to live by the values that unite us: to partner with colleagues and clients, to adopt a pioneering spirit, to be positive in progressing the work we do, and always to deliver what we promise. 

RWS Values

Get the 3Ps right – Partner, Pioneer, Progress – and we´ll Deliver together as One RWS.

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