Product Quality Analyst-Topps at Fanatics | Powderkeg

Location: Remote - New York

Employment Type: Salaried

Team: Fanatics Collectibles

About the Team

Fanatics Collectibles is a new company working at the intersection of collectibles and technology. Backed by some of the best investors, sports properties and operators in the world, we are integrating with Fanatics’ global digital sports platform – which includes 900 sports relationships and more than 81 million reachable fans - to reimagine the collectibles business for the 21st century.

The Product Quality Analyst will be a member of the Topps Digital organization providing software testing, quality assurance, and suggesting refinements that ensure the quality of our customers’ software.

Responsibilities

  • Interpret use cases, user interface specifications, and other functional requirements
  • Develop test plans and test cases
  • Analyze functional or technical requirements for completeness, correctness, and testability
  • Gather various types of requirements including data, functional, business, and technical
  • Able to work in one or more software development methodologies (mostly Agile) and one or more quality management tools
  • Ability to work on both mobile platforms and web

Knowledge

  • B.S. and/or M.S. in Computer Science, Information Systems, Math, or Engineering or equivalent work experience.
  • Minimum 3-5 years’ experience testing complex web-based and mobile applications
  • Minimum 3-5 years’ experience in manual, functional and regression testing using various tools. Experience in Automation Testing would be highly preferred
  • Experience testing on Unity based applications highly preferred.
  • Experience on cross platform testing, testing Mobile Apps as well as Web based Applications highly preferred.
  • Understanding of how technical risk and business priorities influence the specifics of a test strategy and test plan
  • Working knowledge of testing concepts, verification and validation techniques, defect management, quantitative methods, risk management and measurement programs
  • Working knowledge of defect tracking, quality principles and testing tools
  • Understanding json responses and requests, REST client testing highly preferred

Competencies

  • History of high-quality work – accurate, neat, attentive to detail, consistent thorough, follow high standards
  • Organized, sets realistic priorities, manages time appropriately, meets deadlines, coordinates with others, proactive
  • Keeps up with assigned work load, willing to put in extra effort, knows what must be done, seldom needs instruction, ability to work independently
  • Decisive, willingness to make decisions, ask questions when needed
  • Motivated, committed to the job, energetic, self-starting, takes the initiative, shows enthusiasm and high energy level
  • Works well with others, flexible, helps without being asked, seeks and maintains good relationships
  • Consistent attendance, punctual, reliable, follows policies and procedures
  • Effective listener
  • Dependable when deadline pressures intensify, able to remain calm and effective, responds resourcefully to change, rarely loses temper and tolerant to changes in plans or policies
  • Compliant with company and client dress code
  • Tactful, displays common sense, maintains confidentiality, makes sound decisions
  • Innovative, generates original solutions, develops new options, suggests improvements, willing to try new concepts
  • Excellent written and verbal communications skills, presentation skills and interaction skills.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
  • Strategic thinking, analytical thinking, critical thinking, problem solving

Personal Attributes

  • Professional: prepared, on time, available, knowledgeable, respectful, compliant with policies and procedures
  • Ability to work independently with guidance from client
  • Uphold a high standard of work deliverables.
  • Take ownership of individual work
  • Desire to learn
  • Ability to manage uncertainty, chaos, difficult people
  • Strong customer service orientation
  • Assimilate into the client culture without losing your SDLC identity and advocacy
  • Strong leader with a solid foundation in business analysis

Experience

  • Mid to Senior Experience with 5+ years of experience, contributes to complex aspects of a project, defines technical work plans, and leads others to execute

Fanatics is building the leading global digital sports platform to ignite and harness the passions of fans, and maximize the presence and reach for hundreds of partners globally. Leveraging these long-standing partnerships, a database of more than 80 million global consumers and a trusted, recognizable brand name, Fanatics is expanding beyond its position as the global leader for licensed sports merchandise to now becoming a next-gen digital sports platform, featuring an array of offerings across the sports ecosystem.

The Fanatics family of companies currently includes Fanatics Commerce, a vertically-integrated licensed merchandise business that has changed the way fans purchase their favorite team apparel, jerseys, headwear and hardgoods through a tech-infused approach to making and quickly distributing fan gear in today’s 24/7 mobile-first economy; Candy Digital, a digital collectibles company that is partnering with prominent sports properties, including MLB and MLBPA, to build an official NFT ecosystem; Fanatics Collectibles, a transformative company that is building a new model for the hobby and giving collectors an end-to-end collectibles experience; and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, a mobile betting, gaming and retail sportsbook platform. Additional ventures that will build out Fanatics’ footprint across the broader digital sports landscape will be rolled out soon. Fanatics’ partners include all major professional sports leagues (NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, NASCAR, MLS, PGA) and hundreds of collegiate and professional teams, which include several of the biggest global soccer clubs.

As a market leader with more than 8,000 employees, and hundreds of partners, suppliers, and vendors worldwide, we take responsibility for driving toward more ethical and sustainable practices. We are committed to building an inclusive Fanatics community, reflecting and representing society at every level of the business, including our employees, vendors, partners and fans. Fanatics is also dedicated to making a positive impact in the communities where we all live, work, and play through strategic philanthropic initiatives.

At Fanatics, we’re a diverse, passionate group of employees aiming to ignite pride and passion in the fans we outfit, celebrate and support. We recognize that diversity helps drive and foster innovation, and through our IDEA program (inclusion, diversity, equality and advocacy) at Fanatics we provide employees with tools and resources to feel connected and engaged in who they are and what they do to support the ultimate fan experience.

_Ensure your Fanatics job offer is legitimate and don’t fall victim to fraud. Fanatics never seeks payment from job applicants. Fanatics recruiters will only reach out to applicants from an @fanatics.com or @fanatics.co.uk email address. For added security, where possible, apply through our company website at _www.fanaticsinc.com/careers

Tryouts are open at Fanatics! Our team is passionate, talented, unified, and charged with creating the fan experience of tomorrow. The ball is in your court now.

Fanatics is committed to responsible planning and purchasing (RPP) practices, working with its business partners across its global and multi-layered supply chain, to ensure that planning, sourcing, and purchasing decisions, along with other supporting processes, do not impede or conflict with the fulfillment of Fanatics’ fair labor practices.

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Job Summary
  • Job Title
    Product Quality Analyst-Topps
  • Company
    Fanatics
  • Location
    Jacksonville, FL
  • Employment Type
    Full time
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