QA Engineer

Cork, Munster  ‐ Remote
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Description

Scrapinghub is looking for an experienced QA Engineer to join the QA team to help primarily in the verification and validation of the quality of scraped data for clients, using a combination of manual and automated techniques.

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Role Responsibilities:

Perform QA on scraped data. This QA will mostly be manual/visual in nature but you will be also be expected to use Excel, SQL, and/or other tools and technologies to complement this manual QA, particularly when the datasets produced are large
Collaborate with developers, Head of QA, and Project Managers to efficiently move new scraping projects and individual tickets therein from the client requirements-specification stage, through development, QA, and ultimately on to the client with a high degree of quality
From time to to time, you may be required to use ScrapingHub’s visual scraping technologies to scrape structured data according to client requirements

Required:

BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience
Minimum 3 years in a Software Test or Software QA role, in Agile, fast-paced environments and projects
Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes
Solid grasp of - and demonstrable experience in the manual or automated QA of - web technologies and protocols (HTML, CSS, HTTP etc.)
Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans, test cases, and bug reports in JIRA, Redmine, or similar
Good level of written and spoken English; able to communicate on both technical and non-technical levels with various stakeholders
Pro-active; demonstrable experience in taking responsibility for assignments and seeing them to completion with minimal supervision
Able to take both qualitative and quantitative approaches to determining if quality is good enough; confident enough to say “No” when quality is not of a satisfactory level
A desire to constantly improve your ways of working and to learn from feedback ; able to spot where aspects of manual QA can be made more efficient or effective


Desirable:

ISTQB or similar Software Testing certification
Prior experience in a Data QA role (where the focus was on verifying data quality, rather than testing application functionality) or experience in wrangling and analysing large datasets and uncovering issues
Familiarity with data formats such as XML, JSON, JSONLines etc.
Able to formulate moderate to reasonably complex SQL queries
Programming knowledge and experience. Bonus points for demonstrable knowledge of Python and/or JavaScript (please provide examples in your application)
Experience in implementing automated tests
A demonstrable interest in web scraping, data extraction, and data analysis
Previous remote working experience
Start date
ASAP
Duration
12 months
(extension possible)
From
Scrapinghub
Published at
10.08.2017
Contact person:
Jessica Quinn
Project ID:
1396149
Contract type
Freelance
Workplace
100 % remote
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