We are seeking a detail-oriented and proactive QA Specialist, QA Manual Tester, QA Engineer, or SDET to join our team in a contract role. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the quality, performance, and usability of our WordPress-based website and associated systems. You will focus on both front-end and back-end testing, with a strong emphasis on delivering a seamless experience across desktop and mobile platforms. Additionally, you will collaborate closely with other departments to address customer-facing service desk tasks and support overall site functionality and performance.
Responsibilities:
- Ensure items under test meet all business requirements and user expectations while providing test evidence on related JIRA tickets.
- Conduct thorough front-end testing for desktop and mobile platforms, ensuring compatibility and responsiveness using tools such as BrowserStack, browser DevTools and Pagespeed Insights.
- Perform back-end quality assurance testing, including validating data integrity with SQL queries.
- Collaborate with developers and stakeholders to audit dataLayer structure, ensuring it adheres to analytics requirements and captures relevant user interactions.
- Validate adherence to schema standards, Core Web Vitals (CWV), and expected SEO metadata in the page.
- Assist in resolving customer-facing issues as part of service desk tasks.
- Explore opportunities for test automation to enhance QA efficiency using tools like Selenium (as applicable).
- Maintaining acceptance and closure of JIRA task assigned within the cycle of an agile sprint cadence.
Requirements:
- Proven experience in front-end testing for both desktop and mobile environments.
- Familiarity with WordPress architecture, themes, and plugins.
- Knowledge of back-end systems, including the ability to perform API through Postman and SQL queries from mySQL and postgreSQL.
- Proficient in understanding and manipulating the HTML Document Object Model (DOM) to test, debug, and validate website functionality.
- Experience working with the dataLayer object and implementing data tracking solutions to support google analytics GA4.
- Strong understanding of schema standards, Core Web Vitals, and SEO optimization.
- Excellent teamwork and communication skills, with a collaborative mindset.
- Experience handling customer-facing tasks or service desk responsibilities.
- Basic familiarity with QA automation tools and practices (preferred but not required).
- Ability to prioritize tasks related to JIRA tickets and adapt to changing project needs.
If you are detail-driven, adaptable, and passionate about delivering exceptional website performance, we’d love to hear from you. Join us in ensuring an outstanding user experience for our customers!
Pay: $28.87/hour
Hours: 40 hours/week
Length of contract: 4 months
Required: Central or Eastern Time Zone
This is a fully remote, 1099 contract role.
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What We Do
Neighborhoods.com is the first online real estate resource to put the neighborhood at the center of the home search. The platform invites visitors to imagine their life in a new area by providing a local’s perspective, including detailed descriptions and resident reviews of schools, amenities, and the surrounding community.
Why Work With Us
Neighborhoods.com prides itself on being an open, creative, and dynamic place to work. Everyone’s opinion is valued and we are building something amazing from the ground up. The office is full of people who work hard to meet their goals, enjoy each other’s company, and like to have fun.
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