QA Analyst II (contract)

Department Overview:

The Ad Engineering department builds and optimizes advertisings products that enable Best Buy to scale its Media business. They also strive to:

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  Deliver the right message, in the right place, at the right time for customers to discover and learn about relevant products and pricing.
• Connect our partners with our customers in an authentic way that provides clear value through sales, data and insights.
• Generate high-margin revenue to offer lower prices and fund new initiatives to better serve our customers.

Position Summary/Job Description:

The Digital Advertising team at Best Buy - Seattle Technology Development Center (STDC) is seeking a strong QA Analyst with 2-5 years’ experience in a web development and mobile QA role. You will be responsible for generating, maintaining, and executing quality test cases and test scripts focused on enhancing the performance and quality of various digital applications.

Responsibilities:

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  Ensure the quality of all digital products by performing functional, design, copy, accessibility, cross-platform, data integration and regression testing
• Work with the Technical Project Manager, Project Manager and QA Lead to verify all customer and business requirements and participate in sprint planning and feedback for all product releases
• Validate and troubleshoot reported bugs and clearly communicate problems and severity to appropriate development personnel
• Validate the full list of business rules and/or functional specifications documentation against the application being tested
• Document defects/issues in JIRA, including relevant brief descriptions of the issue with detailed steps to replicate
• Create test plans and manage and process bug reports per project
• Provide estimates for small or large projects including level of testing effort and hours required
• Interpret and convert feedback from non-technical staff and customer service groups into actionable items for the development team
• Attend project stand-ups and QA team check-ins to provide status updates on projects
• Maintain working relationships with people in a wide variety of functional areas
• Along with the DevOps team, help in the addition and continuation of automated tools into the continuous building process system
• Stay abreast of new browsers and technologies

Required Skills:

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  2 years experience in web development testing
• 2 years experience in Mobile Testing (Android, iOS)
• 5 years experience in integration testing.
• Previous cross platform tool experience (ReactNative, Xamarin, Flutter, etc.)
• Functional knowledge of xCode and Android Studio (Need to know how to operate the tool)
• Experience with a Enterprise-level test tracking platform (i.e. Testrail)

Preferred Skills:

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  Familiarity with automated QA testing tools is a plus
• Attention to detail, thoroughness, tenacity and strong organizational skills
• Experience with Jira. (Ticket reading, creating, flow)
• Functional knowledge of API Validation Testing (curL commands, Postman)
• Digital Advertising Experience