Quality Assurance Specialist (temporary)

<p data-start="163" data-end="648">This QA role is responsible for ensuring that quality assurance standards and client satisfaction are delivered throughout the product lifecycle. You will execute structured QA activities — including Functional, Smoke, Regression, and Exploratory testing — to validate that features work as expected, builds are stable, existing functionality remains intact, and unexpected issues are uncovered. Your work will help maintain high quality with speed and agility across releases.</p> <p data-start="650" data-end="990">This role involves bug tracking and management, working closely with the QA Lead, developers, designers, project managers, and other QA team members to clarify requirements, raise defects, and escalate risks as needed. Career development guidance is typically provided by the QA Lead and may be adapted based on account or location.</p> <p>This is a<strong> temporary contract </strong>(3 months until march 31, 2026).&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>You Will:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Be co-responsible for the quality of projects based on the requirements and design specifications.</li> <li>Have the ability to ask the right questions and identify if any information is missing or unclear</li> <li>Identify and raise risks</li> <li>Be able to analyze and understand details and requirements of projects and tickets</li> <li>Have to provide direct, clear and concise feedback</li> <li>Monitor the quality of projects based on the requirements and design specifications</li> <li>Attend meetings, provide status updates, learn, and provide feedback</li> <li>Communicate test results, issues, and risks found to project team members, project managers, and QA management through the various channels</li> <li>Identify test data, create and maintain comprehensive test plans, write and maintain test cases/scripts</li> <li>Apply industry standard testing methodology, strategies and industry best practices</li> <li>Create traceability matrix documents and checklist documentation based upon project requirements</li> <li>Perform functional and non-functional testing</li> <li>Effectively communicate statuses</li> <li>Create defect tickets and track issues to resolution</li> <li>Create reports and related metrics at different levels</li> </ul> <p><strong>You Have:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Experience performing <strong data-start="143" data-end="165">Functional Testing</strong> to ensure features work as expected.</li> <li>Ability to conduct&nbsp;<strong data-start="226" data-end="243">Smoke Testing</strong> to verify the stability of builds.</li> <li>Skills in executing <strong data-start="303" data-end="325">Regression Testing</strong> to confirm existing functionality remains unaffected.</li> <li>Experience carrying out&nbsp;<strong data-start="408" data-end="431">Exploratory Testing</strong> to uncover unexpected issues.</li> <li>Strong capability to&nbsp;<strong data-start="487" data-end="521">track, report, and manage bugs</strong> throughout the development lifecycle.</li> <li data-start="564" data-end="670">Ability to <strong data-start="575" data-end="631">collaborate closely with developers and stakeholders</strong> to clarify requirements and defects.</li> <li data-start="673" data-end="769">A proactive mindset to <strong data-start="696" data-end="749">take ownership of the QA process and deliverables</strong> for your project.</li> <li data-start="772" data-end="852">Capability to <strong data-start="786" data-end="849">identify and escalate risks, issues, and potential blockers</strong>.</li> <li data-start="855" data-end="923">Experience working with content managed through <strong data-start="903" data-end="922">CMS (Adobe AEM)</strong>.</li> <li>Minimum 2 years of experience in software quality assurance.</li> <li>Bachelor’s degree in software engineering or related field or equivalent work experience.</li> <li>Experience working with local and offshore teams</li> <li>Experience in task management and defect tracking tools like Jira and/or similar</li> <li>Ideally English Proficiency (B2 reading, writing, and conversation).</li> </ul> <p class="p1"><strong>What We Offer:</strong></p> <ul class="ul1"> <li class="li1">Maternity and parental leave extra days</li> <li class="li1">Competitive benefits packages</li> <li class="li1">Vacation, compassionate leave, sick days, and flex days</li> <li class="li1">Access to online services for families and new parents</li> <li class="li1">Diversity and Inclusion Board with 12 affinity groups</li> <li class="li1">Internal learning and development programs</li> <li class="li1">Enterprise-wide employee discounts</li> <li class="li1">And more…</li> </ul> <p class="p1">At Critical Mass, we value our employees and offer competitive compensation and benefits packages.&nbsp; If you’re looking for a challenging and rewarding opportunity to make a significant impact on the lives of our employees, we encourage you to apply for this exciting position today!</p> <p class="p1">The Talent Team at Critical Mass is focused on ensuring we provide the best training, onboarding, and employee experience possible! Our new hires &amp; employees are the future of our organization, and we&nbsp;want to set you up for long-term success. In an effort to do so, we expect our team to <strong>work from an&nbsp;office a minimum of 3 days a week</strong>.</p> <p class="p1">The ask stems from our want to:</p> <p class="p1">Strengthen opportunity for continuous learning<br>Improve collaboration and team relationships.<br>Increase employee engagement</p> <p class="p1">This work model balances the need for individual flexibility while maintaining the relentless customer focus we provide at CM. We understand that not everyone may feel comfortable with this expectation, so we ask that you please let us know immediately if there are any concerns so we can help navigate accordingly.</p><div class="content-conclusion"><p><em>Critical Mass is an equal opportunity employer.&nbsp;<br><br>Critical Mass uses artificial intelligence in our recruitment process to enhance job postings, filter keywords during the review of prospective candidates, and, in some cases, transcribe interviews with our recruiters. 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