**Quality Assurance Specialist** **Bogota, Colombia** *** **ONLY CVs SUBMITTED IN ENGLISH WILL BE CONSIDERED** **The Opportunity**: Recently combined with Anthology, Blackboard offers the largest EdTech ecosystem on a global scale, supporting over 150 million users in 80 countries. The company’s mission is to provide dynamic, data-informed experiences to the global education community so that learners and educators can achieve their goals. We believe in the power of a truly diverse and inclusive workforce. As we expand globally, we are committed to making diversity, inclusion, and belonging a foundational part of not only our hiring practices but who we are as a company. This role focuses on our Learn & Ultra platforms, which provide students with a simple and intuitive learning experience that they can access anytime and anywhere. As a member of our Product Development team, you’ll work in an agile environment delivering industry-leading SaaS products and web service platforms. As Quality Assurance Specialist, you’ll focus on providing support for performance test development and execution against Anthology’s new feature and legacy system releases. You will become an active member of an agile team of developers participating in daily stand-ups, design sessions, code reviews, and sprint demos. As QA Specialist, you will be responsible for analyzing end user requirements and customer reported defects to design and execute manual or automated test strategies across a variety of architectures and cutting-edge technologies. You’ll design, develop, execute, report, and debug functional, browser, accessibility and localization tests. In this role, you will work hand in hand with our development team as well as other QA staff to provide and review assignments, provide and receive training on feature functionality and test development techniques, and participate in quality reviews of test plans and scripts. You will estimate Level of Effort (LOE) for test/script development, test execution, and other activities central to their assigned tasks and collaborate with Product Design and Engineering teams to advocate for the development of high-quality, testable deliverables. - Required skills/qualifications:_ - Fluency in spoken and written English at CEF B2 level or above - At least 2 years of experience in Quality Assurance as an analyst or engineer - Experience with automation frameworks and automated testing tools - Any experience analyzing code coverage of automated tests and static code analysis - Basic knowledge of programming or scripting languages such as Java or Python - Excellent problem-solving skills **The Office**: We have an office located in Bogota, Colombia as a hub for the LAC market. - Located in Capital Towers center in the financial district - Excellent and secure area to eat lunch, have a walk, or dine after office hours - Benefits in prepaid medicine, dental plan, and wellness allowance - Easy access to public transportation close to two important avenues, Carrera 7 and Calle 100 - Free parking for employees and paid parking for visitors - Multiple private spaces for virtual and face-to-face meetings - Regular events like bring your dog to work day and ping-pong, foosball, and Mario Kart tournaments - Sodexo card provided for employees - Daily budget to spend on beverage vending machines - Learn more about the Bogota office culture by checking out our Facebook page This job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required. Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities at any time. Blackboard is an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, gender, age, color, religion, national origin, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression **,** ***protected military/veteran status, or any other legally protected factor.