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Job Summary:
Gray Media is a growing multimedia company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, and they are seeking a Digital QA Analyst. The role involves validating the quality, functionality, accessibility, and reliability of digital products across various platforms while collaborating closely with product owners and stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
• Design, plan, and execute testing activities across web, mobile, connected TV (CTV), APIs, data feeds, and internal platforms to ensure products meet quality and business expectations.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, developers, and stakeholders throughout the software development lifecycle to clarify requirements, identify risks, and improve overall product quality.
• Create and maintain test strategies, test cases, regression suites, and documentation while prioritizing testing efforts based on risk, complexity, user impact, and release timelines.
• Identify, document, and validate defects through resolution, providing clear communication on testing status, release readiness, and potential risks.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives by analyzing quality trends, supporting efficient QA processes, and helping expand test automation coverage where it provides the greatest value.
• Build test strategies, cases, and validation approaches from requirements, Jira tickets, stakeholder input, and product knowledge.
• Partner with Product Owners and developers early in the software lifecycle to surface risks, clarify requirements, and improve testability before development starts.
• Prioritize coverage by risk, complexity, business, and user impact, and release timelines.
• Run functional, regression, integration, exploratory, accessibility, and user acceptance testing across web, mobile, CTV, and internal platforms.
• Execute cross-browser, cross-device, and mobile testing.
• Test connected-TV apps (Roku, Apple TV, Fire TV, Android TV) for playback, captions, ad behavior, and live-versus-VOD scenarios.
• Validate APIs, data feeds, AI-generated outputs, JSON/XML payloads, and downstream integrations.
• Identify defects, usability issues, edge cases, and unexpected behavior.
• Write clear defect reports with reproduction steps, expected-versus-actual results, and supporting evidence.
• Re-test fixes and confirm resolution before release.
• Take part in sprint planning, backlog refinement, standups, and retrospectives.
• Work alongside developers to isolate issues and support root-cause analysis.
• Maintain regression suites, test documentation, and repeatable QA processes.
• Validate release readiness and communicate status, risks, and recommendations clearly.
• Track quality trends, recurring defects, and areas of technical debt that affect product stability.
• Help identify where automated testing would add the most value, and partner with engineering to grow coverage and efficiency.
• Contribute to initiatives that raise product quality and team effectiveness.
Qualifications:
Required:
• A minimum of 3 years of experience in software quality assurance, digital product testing, or a related field, with hands-on experience testing web applications, mobile applications, internal systems, or other digital products.
• Strong understanding of software testing methodologies, including functional, regression, integration, exploratory, accessibility, and user acceptance testing, with the ability to identify issues and validate solutions across multiple platforms.
• 3+ years of experience in software QA, digital product testing, or a closely related field.
• Hands-on experience testing web applications, mobile applications, internal systems, or other digital products.
• Strong grasp of functional, regression, integration, exploratory, accessibility, and acceptance testing.
• Ability to turn requirements and user workflows into effective test cases and scenarios.
• Experience validating APIs, structured data, and system integrations.
• Strong defect documentation and the collaboration skills to work across the full SDLC.
• Working understanding of accessibility principles, and willingness to build accessibility checks into everyday testing.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving instincts.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
Preferred:
• Experience testing media, broadcast, publishing, CMS, or other content-driven platforms.
• Experience testing connected-TV/OTT apps and validating video playback, closed captions, and ad insertion (SSAI/DAI).
• Experience validating JSON/XML/API responses and integration workflows.
• Basic SQL for validation and troubleshooting.
• Experience testing iOS and Android applications.
• Familiarity with browser developer tools and network inspection.
• Exposure to test automation and an interest in growing automated coverage.
• Accessibility testing against WCAG guidelines.
• Experience supporting release validation and production readiness.
Company:
Gray Media is a broadcast company that owns and operates television stations in 31 markets across the country. Founded in 1897, the company is headquartered in Atlanta, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.