Dow Jones QA Specialist in BARCELONA, SpainJob Description: OPIS, a Dow Jones company, is one of the world's most comprehensive sources for petroleum pricing and news information. OPIS provides real-time and historical spot, wholesale/rack, and retail fuel prices for the refined products, renewable fuels, and natural gas and gas liquids (LPG) industries. We deliver award-winning news, market intelligence, and transparency to the entire refined energy marketplace and companies looking to go carbon neutral.
OPIS is currently hiring in our Quality Assurance team. This is a unique opportunity to join a growing team that will become an important part of global OPIS IT and our Product Technology division. We are looking for a QA Specialist to function as a software tester and product expert across multiple teams and divisions of OPIS. You will play an integral role in the development and deployment of software in a fast-paced environment.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES Work with multiple areas of business to learn OPIS products and processes, attending business meetings for your product specialty as well as Agile ceremonies for your project teams.Test software and content to ensure changes and additions meet business expectations without negatively affecting existing reports and workflows.Perform manual tests, including data validation and verification.Maintain test plans and estimates for testing tasks.Participate in production deploys with several project teams simultaneously.Define User Stories working with the QA Engineer, Product Owner, and other development team members to ensure stories are ready with appropriate user acceptance criteria.Perform regression tests for deployment verification and auditing purposes.Document and track testing results and bugs, working with developers to understand and recreate issues within software/projects.Identify and track recurring issues, updating test plans and working with the QA Engineers to improve automation coverage.Help maintain documentation on product and software functionality, workflow, and process.Leverage business and product knowledge to support QA Engineers in building automated test suites during the development process.Help identify potential workflow issues early in the development process.Learn and integrate quality assurance best practices.YOUR EXPERTISE Bachelor's Degree.0-2 years professional experience in customer service or other business environment.Ability to think abstractly to find bugs quickly.Strong analytical and organizational skills.Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.IT'S A BONUS IF YOU ALSO HAVE Experience working with Agile/Scrum teams.Prior knowledge of OPIS data.Experience with Azure DevOps or similar issue/bug tracking systems.Knowledge of the software development life cycle and performing various tests.Basic knowledge of at least one high-level programming language or technology.YOU ARE Able to work with multiple teams while also working independently.Comfortable working with large amounts of data.Able to quickly jump from project to project.Excellent at communicating issues discovered to all members of a project team.Fluent in English speaking and writing.Business Area: Dow Jones - OPIS
Job Category: Software Product Engineering
Union Status: Non-Union role
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