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HonorVet Technologies

Software Test Engineer

HonorVet Technologies, Redmond, Washington, United States, 98052


Position: -

Software Test Engineer 1Location: -

Redmond, WAPosition ID:

147929-1Duration: -

12+ Months

Typical Day in the RoleYears of Experience Required:

1- 2 overall years of experience in the field.Degrees or certifications required:

degree is required to be eligible for this role.Disqualifiers:

Candidates who can't make the onsite requirement will not be eligible for the role.Best vs. Average:

The ideal resume would contain someone who has some experience with both Minecraft, but also Education, especially teaching coding. Previous work in agile.Performance Indicators:

Performance will be assessed based on meeting deadlines & quality of work.

Top 3 Hard Skills Required + Years of Experience

Minimum 1-2 years experience with Quality AssuranceMinimum 1-2 years experience with PedagogyMinimum 1-2 years experience with Creating/validating work to handed offsite teams

Hard Skills Assessments

Expected Dates that Hard Skills Assessments will be scheduled: ASAP.Hard Skills Assessment Process: The assessment process will include HSA with the Microsoft sponsor.Required Candidate Preparation: Candidates should have prepared prior to the assessment.

Executes prewritten manual test scripts and reports product anomalies when found.May also run automated test tools and perform analysis of results.Performs basic computer configuration and/or application compatibility testing.Works under the supervision of more senior Testers.General knowledge of personal computers, applications software, or operating systems required.Must have the ability to use, at a basic level, word processing and spreadsheet applications.Demonstrated investigative and problem solving skills required.Familiarity with product lifecycle preferred.Must have the ability to learn new information quickly.Bachelor's degree, technical training certification, Associate's degree or equivalent work experience/training required.Software Test Engineer 1, Mojang Studios

Role: STE 1(on-site, Redmond)Minecraft Education (EDU) is built on the base Minecraft game (Bedrock), with additional features aimed to empower educators to engage and teach using the game.

The EDU Quality (QA) team has 3 primary support roles:

Support client architecture- validating new EDU features during development, testing how new features implemented by the Bedrock Minecraft team overlap with EDU features, and identifying regressions or conflicts with older features.Support content team- EDU content developers create new worlds for download. The QA team helps validate compliance, functionality, and user experience for the content team.Collaborate with EDU Support - The Support team monitors incoming tickets, as well as social media platforms to help identify and prioritize issues from customers. The QA team helps validate and create local reproduction of issues- helping troubleshoot to either resolve problems or create actionable items for developers to implement in the client or services.

This is a Test position focused on representing the voice of quality to advocate for a positive customer experience through creation and implementation of user-based testing scenarios.Some debug tools may be used, but coding or scripting knowledge/experience is not required.Feature areas cover a range including, but not limited to: UI, coding functionality, gameplay, compliance, accessibility, platform, MP/networking, services, licensing, localization, telemetry, companion applications, and web.Daily responsibilities include on-site and electronic collaboration with the expanded team, creating validation passes for acceptance criteria of new features, root cause analysis and reporting of issues in a DB, validation of fixes and risk assessment of surrounding areas, fulfilling test requests from stakeholders, working across hardware platforms, advocating for customer experience from the perspective of educators, administrators, students, parents, and gamers.This role will own features and test plan creation, with FTE oversite/collaboration to align with overall testing methodologies and insights from other team members to help address risk areas.Some test pass creation experience is expected.Minecraft is a large game- some experience with the game is heavily preferred.Experience in teaching or in the education field would also carry weight for a candidate.The EDU team works on a lot of features; agility and adaptability are preferred over area experts.