Quality Assurance Officer - WordPress Plugin Tester at WPMU DEV

WPMU DEV is an established and leading commercial WordPress company with products used on tens of millions of websites and we are still growing. Company culture: It’s the flexibility and excitement of working for a start-up, but with an established business and growing team. We're big on having fun too!. Work remotely: That’s right, work flexibly from anywhere in the world. Our crew covers every continent except Antarctica (know any penguins for hire?).

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Quality Assurance Officer - WordPress Plugin Tester (WordPress, MySQL, GIT, Black-box Testing, White-box Testing, Unit testing, Automated Testing, Manual Testing, CSS, PHP, and JavaScript)

Location: Remote

Job Summary

• We are looking for a QA - WordPress plugin tester, to work with us at WPMU DEV full-time testing challenging, interesting, cool new stuff.

Responsibilities

• For this role, you will provide beta testing for all plugin and service releases.
• This includes user testing, functionality tests, regression tests, compatibility tests against different versions of WordPress and PHP and popular third-party plugins, measuring performance, reporting issues and monitoring the work to resolve them, producing screenshots or video to illustrate how to reproduce an issue.

Qualifications
Essential attributes and experience required:

• You must be super familiar with WordPress, have experience in testing WordPress plugins and theme frameworks, know enough about MySQL and Git, and understand the concept of black-box testing, white-box testing, regression tests, unit testing, user testing, automated and manual testing, have sufficient knowledge on CSS, PHP and JavaScript to know how to narrow down possible sources/triggers of a bug/issue and write detailed steps on how to consistently reproduce it.
• Skill Set:
  • WordPress, MySQL, GIT, black-box testing, white-box testing, unit testing, automated testing, manual testing, CSS, PHP, JavaScript.

Job Benefits
Why Join us?

• Growth-oriented culture.
• Excellent compensation with competitive benefits and rejuvenation time-off.
• Flexible work environment.
• Training, tools and support will be provided to help you to perform your job.
• Limitless learning opportunities by working with cutting-edge tech stacks and a diverse, talented team.
• 28 days of paid leave per annum (up to 35 days).
• Opportunities for paid travel to attend WordCamps and other industry conferences.
• Long service leaves (3 months off paid) after you’ve been with us for 10 years.
• Annual bonus based on company growth targets
• Technology budget that can help you upgrade the tools you use for your job; the longer you serve, the higher the budget.
• General expenses budget yearly that can be used to help you become more productive; the longer you work, the more you get.

Application Closing Date
10th October, 2024.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Application Process
What should I do now?

• Are you ready to put your skills to the test?
• For a chance to come and work with us and to push the envelope with what WordPress can do, to be included at the start of some incredible projects and to enjoy your work more than you previously ever thought was possible.
• Task instructions:
  • We’ve attached a plugin that you’ll be using for this test.
  • You can find it in the attachment section in the sidebar.
  • You will need to upload this plugin to your WordPress install.
  • Activate, and then use the plugin as an end user.
  • Write down any issues you observe.

Hiring Process:

• Our hiring process includes the task mentioned above and an interview with our management team, enclosing a 2nd task.
• If a candidate successfully passes the interview stage, they will be offered a paid employment trial of 4-6 weeks before being offered a more permanent role. Good luck!