About Alexa Translations

Alexa Translations provides translation services in the legal, financial, and securities sectors by leveraging proprietary A.I. technology and a team of highly specialized linguistic experts. Unmatched in speed and quality, our machine translation engine is best-in-class and specifically trained for the French-Canadian market. If that wasn’t enough, our technology is backed by two decades of award-winning client service.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with SCRUM teams from the start of a sprint to deliver best-in-class technical solutions
• Develop test scenarios based on business requirements and designs for web applications and integration platforms
• Work with functional teams in reducing error rates and perform root cause analysis of errors/trends
• Partner with automation engineers to create a unified approach to automation across the team.
• Collaborate as part of a development team by providing a customer viewpoint
• Make suggestions/contributions for the improvement of software testing/quality
• Contribute in meetings, Scrums, and other inter-team interactions.
• Provide software and hardware capability assessments to outside departments.
• Research and make recommendations to the group regarding new technology available and its proper application.

Skills and Qualifications

• Minimum three (3) years software QA testing experience in an Agile development environment.
• Bachelor´s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Programming, Mathematics/Analytics or related field or equivalent experience.
• Ability to independently interpret requirements and technical specifications, translate into thorough test plans and test cases, and execute test cases
• Manual testing of desktop, web applications, APIs including the interactions with REST service endpoints through tools, such as Postman
• Experience with test management systems and bug-tracking systems such as JIRA.
• Attention to detail, ability to follow test plans and scripts, and good management skills.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Willingness to work in the Eastern time zone remotely.
• Fluent in English and French.
• Experience in working with BDD frameworks such as Cucumber.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in Java, JavaScript, and Python.
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) processes.
• Experience with web application testing and tools such as TestComplete.
• Experience with API testing and tools such as REST Assured.
• Experience with performance testing and tools such as JMeter.
• Knowledge of SQL databases.
• Working knowledge of the following technologies:
  • Text processing, Regular Expressions, knowledge of processing variety of documents
  • CAT Tools such as: memoQ, SDL, Memsource
• Desire to develop professional skills through continued training and educational opportunities
• AWS Cloud Applications and Services Testing
• Fluent in Arabic, Spanish or other languages.