Description
- We are seeking an experienced SEO Web Project Manager (PM) Technical Quality Assurance (QA) Analyst to join our IT Operations team focused on development, support, maintenance, and monitoring of marketing websites. The right candidate will possess demonstrable experience performing comprehensive website audits (technical, content, & links) with a focus on quality and identifying improvement opportunities from an SEO perspective.
- This position requires a deep knowledge of technical SEO best practices with a focus on translating site audits into optimization action plans to ensure compliance across properties.
- You must be comfortable reviewing a site's architecture, and understand how search engines will crawl the site, what practices to avoid, and what on-page changes will have the most impact based on current algorithms.
- Candidate will function as the key connection point between SEO Agency Partners who conduct audits and provide recommendations and the technical production partner who will implement the recommendations.
- The focus of PM will be to translate the recommendations into action plans and the QA role will be to review implementation to ensure proper application and SEO effectiveness.
REQUIREMENTS/PREFERENCES:
The ideal candidate for this position should be able to (or possess):
- 2+ years of experience in digital testing role with hands on experience testing responsive websites on mobile and tablet devices
- 2+ year of relatable experience in managing complex projects with a track record of delivering on time and on budget
- 4+ years of relevant SEO experience
- Experience with web application load and performance testing and techniques
- Ability to identify critical or complex areas in the system and test accordingly
- Expertise in functional testing - regression testing and ad-hoc testing
- An in-depth understanding of search engine behavior: what content search engines crawl and read, what practices to avoid, and what on-page changes will have the most impact based on current algorithms
- Basic SQL knowledge - able to connect to, understand schema and query databases
- Basic knowledge of web development
- Experience using SEO campaign management software (such as BrightEdge, SEMRush, Moz)
- Up-to-date understanding of organic search trends, including search engine algorithm changes, the latest tools and technologies
- Experience with automated web application testing tools and techniques
- Experience with defect tracking tools, such as JIRA
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced work environment, with multiple project releases per week
- Possess an extremely high attention to detail and quality
- Excellent presentation, communication, analytical and problem-solving skills
- Desire to collaborate with others in a team environment
- Experience with Mobile Test Automation (eg Perfecto Mobile, Appium) a big plus
- Experience with SiteCore and Teamsite CMS editing a big plus