QA Engineer (Berlin/Remote)

The Company

Our mission: At Miaplaza, Inc., we are dedicated to delivering innovative educational experiences that drive our mission: Empowering children by providing them with excellent learning experiences so they can flourish and make the world a better place. Miaplaza's main K-8 curriculum platform is Miacademy (miacademy.co), and our high school platform is MiaPrep (miaprep.com).

We believe that meticulous quality assurance is crucial to providing an exceptional learning experience, and are looking for skilled QA professionals enthusiastic about leveraging technology to redefine the future of education.

We’re growing! Our student base is rapidly expanding, and we are currently hiring for multiple positions across several departments. Our growth stems from two key factors: our commitment to providing exceptional educational content to our students by scaling our team with passionate individuals, and our pursuit of new opportunities to enhance our students' learning experiences by innovating and broadening our capabilities and expertise as an organization.

Although this is a fully remote position, and you have the flexibility to work from anywhere, it's essential to have significant overlap with standard working hours in Europe, as most of our product team is based there. Outside of this core overlap period, you have complete flexibility in determining your work schedule. 

You can hear our CEO, Johannes Ziegler, discuss our company in this podcast:

What we offer

• You get to work on an impactful mission, directly influencing the education of our students and receiving frequent feedback from them and their parents
• You get to play a central role in a fast-growing company with ample opportunity for career growth
• You can choose to work fully remote or hybrid from our Berlin office
• You can choose your working hours, as long as you have significant overlap with European working hours and are able to take meetings with the US a few times per week (usually 5-7pm CET).
• Benefits such as vacation depend on your country of residence and are negotiable
• Competitive compensation: 50k - 75k€ (higher salaries possible for exceptional candidates)

Requirements

Key Responsibilities:

• Executing manual tests, including functional, regression, and cross-platform
• Establishing and enforcing QA protocols, monitoring adherence, evaluating their effectiveness, and pursuing ongoing improvements in our QA process
• Creating and maintaining test documentation such as checklists, test cases, bug reports, and other relevant testing materials
• Testing for responsive layouts on various devices, including mobile and tablet
• Analyzing product requirements to ensure alignment with quality standards and confirming that the product being developed is the right fit for customer needs and expectations
• Overseeing release testing procedures to streamline the process and ensure that only high-quality updates are deployed
• Working closely with designers and developers to ensure everything we release achieves the desired outcome
• Maintaining clear and effective communication with the team to confirm that all requirements are accurately met
• Write automated regression tests

Additional responsibilities related to automation:

• Identifying test cases suitable for being included into the automated regression suite
  
• Developing and executing automated UI and functional tests using C# programming language
• Troubleshooting issues logged during automated tests execution

Requirements:

• At least two years of experience as a Quality Assurance Engineer
• Expertise in testing Web User Interfaces
• Skilled in developing test cases and checklists
• Experience in writing automated tests, preferably in C#
• Utilization of test design and testing techniques with a strong understanding of their practical application
• Proficiency in developing and updating test documentation, as well as conducting test runs
• Understanding of client-server architecture
• A solid understanding of QA processes within the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Strong analytical skills, a keen eye for detail, and a proactive approach
• Upper-intermediate proficiency in both written and spoken English, with effective communication skills
• Strong team player
• Open to giving and receiving feedback

Good to have experience in:

• Responsive test design
• Browser dev tools
• Building a testing process in high-intensity projects
• Performance testing
• Accessibility testing