QA Specialist , Speak

• 3+ years of industry experience in mobile QA, with strong hands-on testing and debugging of user-facing applications on both iOS and Android
• Proficiency testing asynchronous mobile flows, such as network requests, streaming updates, and background tasks, covering edge cases like timeouts, retries, and offline/online transitions
• Experience validating mobile analytics instrumentation, including funnels, retention events, and experiment exposure or assignment
• Ability to design and execute test plans for experiments and feature flags, ensuring correct bucketing, guardrails, and safe rollout/rollback behavior
• Experience applying network and device throttling to surface performance and reliability issues under real-world conditions
• Ability to diagnose and debug flaky mobile tests, particularly those caused by concurrency, threading, or reactive pipelines (e.g., race conditions or subscription timing issues)
• Approaches testing with an end‑to‑end user journey mindset, surfacing UX friction and awkward flows alongside functional bugs
• Strong grasp of product development and release processes, with experience using modern QA methodologies and tools
• Self-sufficient and comfortable with ambiguity, able to adapt quickly and communicate clearly in async workflows
• Able to work from the SF HQ 3 days per week

Desirable

• We are seeking a detail-oriented and proactive QA Specialist to join our Quality Assurance team on a 6‑month contract basis with the potential to convert to full-time employment
• You will design and execute test plans, identify defects, analyze QA metrics, and work directly with the development and product teams to ensure reliable, user-friendly solutions
• The ideal candidate excels in hands-on testing, demonstrates attention to detail, understands QA methodologies, and drives continuous improvement in a dynamic environment
• Analyze requirements and specifications to develop effective test strategies
• Design, execute, and maintain test plans and cases for comprehensive coverage
• Conduct functional, regression, performance, analytics, and design testing
• Document and track defects using a test management system and issue tracker like Linear
• Collaborate with developers, product managers, QA teammates, and other stakeholders to resolve issues pre-release
• Triage and groom bug reports for your features, and collaborate with Product Ops on issue management
• Maintain a high-quality bar for mobile releases, including clear go/no-go recommendations and follow-through on critical issues
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of testing activities, test cases, and reports
• Work with QA teammates, Engineers, and Product teams to identify challenges and improve QA workflows
• Utilize QA automation tools to streamline testing and reduce manual regressions where appropriate
• Maintain and interpret quality metrics (for example, defect trends, escape rates, test coverage) to drive improvements in release quality and speed