Senior QA Analyst
About The Position
The Senior QA Analyst helps ensure the quality and reliability of technology platforms and entertainment services. This self-motivated quality professional contributes to manual and automated testing across multiple parallel development projects, including front-end, back-end, and platform integrations. The role partners with Product, Engineering, and Customer Support to define quality standards, execute testing strategies, and support delivery goals on time, within budget, and with high quality. The position is hybrid in Culver City, California, with onsite work Monday through Thursday and remote work on Friday. It is full-time at 40 hours per week, with compensation of $32–$35 per hour. The posting lists a 401(k) with matching and states that no PTO is included.
Requirements
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.
- Strong communication, organizational, time-management, and interpersonal skills.
- At least 5 years of software QA experience, including both manual and automated testing.
- Hands-on experience executing and maintaining automated tests.
- Familiarity with common QA tools and defect-tracking systems such as JIRA and Confluence.
- Solid understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies.
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.
Nice To Haves
- Experience developing test automation frameworks.
- Experience maintaining or extending automated tests using an established framework.
- Experience testing APIs, web applications, mobile or connected-device applications, or platform integrations.
- Experience in entertainment, streaming, media, or another consumer-facing digital product environment.
Responsibilities
- Participate in early discussions and scope definition for new functionalities and features so quality is considered from the start.
- Analyze requirements, use cases, and edge cases to create comprehensive test plans and test cases.
- Write and execute detailed workflow, functional, and regression test cases.
- Perform exploratory testing to identify usability, integration, and stability issues.
- Test across multiple platforms, devices, operating systems, and environments.
- Contribute to the design, creation, execution, and maintenance of automated test cases for key workflows and front-end and API-tier regression coverage.
- Identify opportunities to improve test coverage through automation and identify appropriate tools.
- Review automation results, analyze failures, and collaborate with engineers to resolve issues.
- Support continuous testing within Agile development cycles.
- Log, track, and triage defects with clear documentation, evidence, and reproduction steps.
- Prioritize issues based on severity, impact, and release timelines.
- Work with offshore automation and manual testing teams to support testing coverage and outcomes.
- Reproduce and validate issues reported by internal teams or customers.
- Escalate critical defects, blockers, and quality risks to management.
- Report test progress, quality status, and defect trends to stakeholders.
- Help deliver project milestones on time while safeguarding product quality.
- Assist Customer Service teams with validating reported issues and confirming fixes.
- Help maintain stable, high-quality production services.
Benefits
- 401(k) with matching
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
