Black Pixel is looking for a few good QA engineers to join our team. Ideal candidates will have 2 or more years experience in formal QA, a passion for Apple products, and a vested interest in creating great applications.

Location: Seattle

Responsibilities

You’ll help us produce the highest quality applications possible, both for ourselves and some of the best-loved brands in the industry:

• Develop and document regression test plans. Given our predilection for developing peer-to-peer applications this may require test plans coordinating the operation of 3 or more iOS devices at once.
• Work closely with our designers and engineers to develop a solid understanding of our applications’ expected scrolling behavior, transitions, and animations, and relentlessly hammer on updates of the code to ensure that these are working as expected with good performance.
• Advocate for our design team, filing and regression testing user interface bugs in addition to regular functional testing.
• Capture and update the status of product defects via tools such as FogBugz and JIRA.
• Work with design, engineering, and management to triage, prioritize, and schedule fixes the existing set of bugs and new features.

Qualifications

Candidates should have demonstrable communication and organizational skills, plus an appreciation of iOS application design aesthetics.

• Minimum of 2 years professional QA experience, with multiple shipped applications
• Familiarity with OS X, terminal
• At least a year of git and svn experience
• Test scripting and test automation experience
• Ability to provide detailed, concise, and accurate steps required to reproduce reported issues.

Nice to haves

Experience with or possession of the following will definitely help:

• Experience shipping iPhone and iPad applications
• Experience testing applications with support for multiple orientations
• Experience working with localized applications
• Strong triage sensibilities
• Excellent problem solving skills
• UI automation expertise

Benefits

In addition to being a cool job in a great industry, this position also offers:

• Competitive salary
• Profit sharing plan
• Great health insurance plan

If you think you’re a good match for this position, send us an updated copy of your resumé along with an introductory email and a list of references to [email hidden]. We’re looking forward to hearing from you.