Quality Assurance Specialist

Quality Assurance Specialist

Reports To

The Quality Assurance Specialist will report to Schuy Horhota, QA Lead.

Location

This position will report into our Calgary office, but we are open to being remote within western Canada.

Job overview

At Evans Hunt, our mission is to create powerful, positive experiences that combine strategy, creative, and technology. As a Quality Assurance Specialist, you will work with different project teams to test our work and ensure it meets its requirements for functionality, responsiveness, and accessibility.

Who we are looking for 

Your professional or academic experience has given you the ability to work as a quality assurance specialist with empathy and enthusiasm to support meaningful digital experiences. You believe in a collaborative, multidisciplinary approach to projects and that diverse perspectives lead to stronger work.

If the person below sounds like you, you should definitely apply.

• You love testing websites. You have performed functional website testing to ensure projects meet their requirements and work across different physical devices, browsers and operating systems, with familiarity for WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility standards.
• You recognize patterns. You will be testing a myriad of web projects at any given time, all different but often sharing similar components and functionality, and will recognize common areas where issues can arise.
• You have an eye for detail. You will create new test plans and enhance existing ones, identify things to test for that others may have overlooked.
• You're enthusiastic to learn new tools. You have a growing knowledge of different web testing tools that can help such as the browser console, Browserstack, Axe, Postman, Playwright, Lighthouse and Pagespeed Insights and are keen to take advantage of the tools out there.
• You're eager. You're excited for the chance to join new projects and ready to pitch in to help the team during the development process through to launch.

A day in the life

Working at an agency, you'll have the opportunity to work with various clients across a diverse range of industries simultaneously. One day you might be testing that an animation for a ski destination homepage works on iOS. Another day you might be walking through a primary user flow on an e-commerce website ensuring keyboard navigation works. No day is the same.

That said, there are a few activities that will likely take up most of your time. These include:

• Running visual cross browser and cross device testing and WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility testing
• Performing exploratory testing — our projects often lack fixed test scripts and need creative testing to identify issues
• Identifying and logging all issues, working with the development team to ensure those issues are resolved
• Collaborating with the project management team to ensure projects are being tested within the project timeline

What's in it for you

Evans Hunt is a full-service digital agency focused on the integration of strategy, creative, and technology. Our experienced team of 100+ employees delivers complete marketing solutions for many top local, national and international organizations. We’re a fun place that does good work. Here’s what we’re offering:

• Salary range: $70,000 - $95,000 depending on experience.
• Culture & lifestyle: We’re an agency and take pride in our work, but family and wellbeing need nurturing too, so you’ll have flexible hours and lots of opportunity to establish your own work style. A respectful and inclusive workplace in which all are welcome is important to us and we’re not much for micromanaging.
• Office availability: Our Calgary-based office is an amenity, not a mandate, and there for you whenever you'd like.
• Stuff: A laptop and an optional phone plan will be provided.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Evans Hunt embraces and encourages the differences and characteristics that make our employees unique. The rich perspectives that result from DE&I promote innovation and business success and make us more creative, flexible, productive, and competitive. These differences are an important part of not only our culture but our reputation and achievements. At Evans Hunt, diversity is a fact, and equity and inclusion are choices we make as individuals and leaders.