We're looking for an individual with a passion for technology and a keen eye for detail to join our Quality Assurance team as a Quality Assurance Analyst.

Location
Makati, Metro Manila

Salary/Fee

40,000 - 80,000 PHP/month (DOE)

Reports to

Lead QA Analyst

The Opportunity:

The Quality Assurance (QA) team plays a vital role in ensuring that our digital solutions adhere to the highest standards of functionality, usability, and excellence.

As a member of our QA team, you will be actively engaged in the entire life cycle of our projects, collaborating closely with developers, designers, project managers, and, most importantly, our valuable clients.

We embrace a culture of continuous learning, improvement, and innovation, supporting one another in our professional growth, and always striving to improve our processes and explore new tools to ensure we deliver to the highest quality.

Our toolset includes Jira, Confluence, Diffy and Datadog Synthetics.

Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities:

• Review requirements, specifications, and technical design documents to provide early, valuable feedback.
• Create and maintain comprehensive test plans and test cases.
• Estimate, prioritise, plan, and coordinate testing activities across assigned projects.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts in Datadog Synthetics.
• Identify, log and track defects within Jira.
• Perform thorough regression testing when defects are resolved as part of our QA workflow.
• Participate in project meetings and provide regular updates on testing progress.
• Identify and suggest improvements to optimise project workflows, enhance efficiency, and implement best practices.

About You (You don’t need to tick all the boxes to be considered, so please do still apply if you have most of what we’re looking for)

• Experience testing software, preferably in a digital agency environment.
• Experience working with content management systems such as Drupal or Umbraco.
• Strong knowledge of software testing principles and methodologies.
• Demonstrate experience or a willingness to learn test automation, using our teams chosen tool, Datadog Synthetics
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to build trust with clients and colleagues, and convey complex concepts clearly and concisely.
• Strong organisational and time-management skills to handle multiple tasks simultaneously, and ability to adapt and be flexible to manage frequently changing project requirements.
• Keen eye for detail to ensure accuracy, and demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills to address challenges and find creative solutions.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively in a team-oriented environment, with a positive attitude, and an eagerness to learn and grow in a fast-paced digital environment.
• ISTQB Foundation certification (this isn’t a must-have, and we can create a training plan for the chosen applicant to achieve this if they don’t hold this already).

About Us

Welcome to the home of the down-right inquisitive.

Reading Room is a user-led, data-centric consultancy. Fundamentally understanding users’ needs, motivation and behaviours in relation to our clients’ products and service is the key to success.

We help all kinds of passionate brands and organisations to realise their digital ambitions. And, as an 80-strong team of digital specialists across the UK, Europe, and Asia, we cover the whole caboodle – from the deep dive and digital strategy, right through to the design, technology and communications that define how customers feel and interact.

We are not afraid to challenge conventional thinking and we’re well known for our candid, jargon-free approach to delivery.

Our work adheres closely to the principles of user-centric design and delivers client work using agile processes, and in-depth discovery.

Reading Room’s existing client base is impressive, including well-known organisations spanning; central Government, blue light services, public and private healthcare, membership, not-for-profit, charity, and construction… to name a few. In recent times, we’ve seen an uplift in demand and requirement for our specialist services, with a number of new clients joining our growing portfolio.

We’re now proud to be part of the independently owned Rippleffect Group (formerly Fat Media Group), alongside our sister companies: RONIN International, a research consultancy which is providing an even bigger toolbox for clients to collect data, understand their customer and scale up in other countries, and Fat Media, experts in digital marketing & websites for growth focused businesses.

How to apply…

Do you like the sound of all of this? If so, we’d love to hear from you! Please send us your CV and a short paragraph telling us about you and why you would like to work with us, and we’ll be in touch.

Please submit your application through our careers site so that it is uploaded onto our recruitment system. We have tried to simplify the application process as much as possible, and won’t ask you to complete a lengthy application form – you can apply with your CV or LinkedIn profile - but if you don’t apply through our careers site, unfortunately we cannot always guarantee your application will be reviewed, or that you will receive a response, particularly if we receive strong interest in the role.

The interview process will consist of 2 stages... the first will be an introductory call with the Recruitment Lead for you and us to find out a bit more about each other and consider if it could be the right opportunity for you and your skills; the second stage would be a competency-based and behavioural interview with our Lead QA Analyst.

Given the nature of the business and our clients’ requirements, any job offers issued will be conditional upon the satisfactory completion of pre-contract checks and references.

Reading Room & Rippleffect Group are committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce and everyone we work with, and eliminating unlawful discrimination. We base all our employment decisions on merit, job requirements and business needs. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and our customers, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best.

Find out more... https://www.readingroom.com/