Quality Assurance Analyst
Uphold Inc.
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Braga • 🇵🇹 Portugal
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JuniorMid-Level
About the role
- Working with cross-functional teams to ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Collaborating with the Engineering team with an agile mindset.
- Reviewing and contributing to requirements, specifications and technical design documents, including API-related documentation.
- Following product development from conception to delivery in production.
- Writing test specifications and scenarios, and performing continuous testing across UI and API layers.
- Performing manual testing, including exploratory testing techniques.
- Designing and executing API test cases covering business logic, authentication flows, error responses, and asynchronous/webhook behaviors.
- Contributing to planning of testing activities, ensuring products are effective, accurate, suitable and free from defects.
- Recording defects in a clear and reproducible way for developers and business analysts.
- Creating logs to document testing phases and defects.
- Spotting areas for improvement to enhance product and API efficiency and reliability.
- Helping troubleshoot issues across components and services.
- Contributing to the evolution of the automation framework, including automated API testing.
- Ensuring the final product satisfies requirements and meets end-user expectations.
- Creating and improving quality assurance policies and procedures.
Requirements
- Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- 2+ years of relevant quality assurance and testing experience, including exposure to backend or API testing.
- Basic knowledge of test automation techniques, frameworks and tools.
- Experience specifying and running scenarios and test cases.
- Experience with bug management tools and reporting defects.
- Ability to apply exploratory testing and critical thinking.
- Skill in reviewing user-reported issues and prioritising recurring or high-impact problems.
- Ability to assess which quality attributes to emphasise based on the application's context.
- High regard for safety standards and quality control.
- Experience working in an agile/lean environment.
- Fluent written and oral English skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Meticulous attention to detail.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Passionate about breaking things to improve reliability while helping build excellent products.
Benefits
- Annual bonus program based on individual, team and company performance.
- Home office stipend for a productive setup.
- Generous PTO, healthcare, and employee assistance programs.
- Engaging events and celebrations.
- Well-stocked office kitchen with a foodie culture.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
API testingmanual testingexploratory testingtest automation techniquestest specificationstest casesdefect recordingquality assuranceagile methodologycontinuous testing
Soft skills
collaborationcritical thinkingattention to detailanalytical skillsproblem-solvingcommunicationplanningmeticulousnesstroubleshootinguser-focused mindset