Quality Assurance Specialist
Brno, Czech Republic


The Opportunity:
Anthology delivers education and technology solutions so that students can reach their full potential and learning institutions thrive. Our mission is to empower educators and institutions with meaningful innovation that’s simple and intelligent, inspiring student success and institutional growth.


The Power of Together is built on having a diverse and inclusive workforce. We are committed to making diversity, inclusion, and belonging a foundational part of our hiring practices and who we are as a company.


For more information about Anthology and our career opportunities, please visit www.anthology.com.


This role focuses on our Ally product, Anthology’s revolutionary product that makes digital course content more accessible. As the accessibility of digital course content is becoming increasingly important world-wide, institutions must address long-standing and often overbearing challenges. Anthology’s Ally engineering team is responsible for developing industry-leading tools to improve accessibility through inclusivity, sustainability, and automation for all students.


As a member of our Product Development organization, you’ll work in an agile environment delivering industry-leading Saa S products and web service platforms. Software engineers work in a team environment, collaborating on the design, implementation, and support of Anthology’s products.


Specific responsibilities will include:

• Verifying and testing new features, analyzing, and investigating root cause of customers issues
• Analyzing results of test automation builds (smoke and regression tests)
• Writing and maintaining automation tests written in Type Script
• Being part of the development teams to understand the business requirements and preparing automation scripts for testing
• Cooperating very closely with software and site reliability engineers and helping build, maintain, and monitor test environments
• Working in a scrum team responsible for developing and testing features and fixes for Anthology Ally
• Collaborating with teammates and others to design solutions to complex problems
• Participating in agile planning and execution
• Contributing to the ongoing support and improvement of Ally
• Working with a variety of software development technologies, tools, and techniques (e.g. Node JS (Type Script), Docker, AWS etc.)
• Developing a deep expertise in certain areas of the product
• Developing new features and maintaining test automation framework
• Maintaining CI/CD for test automation

The Candidate:
Required skills/qualifications:

• 2-5 years of relevant experience
• Interest in quality assurance and test automation
• Knowledge of HTML/CSS
• Good abstract and critical thinking
• Knowledge of some programming language (ideally Java Script, Type Script)
• Experience with REST API testing
• Fluency in written and spoken English

Preferred skills/qualifications:

• Experience with executing manual test cases and exploratory testing
• Experience with test automation
• Command line scripting knowledge in Linux-like environment
• Knowledge of cloud computing (e.g. AWS or Azure)
• Experience with Intelli J IDEA (or other IDE)
• Experience with a version control system (Git)
• Experience with a bug tracking system (JIRA)
• Experience with a continuous integration system and continuous delivery practices

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.


Anthology 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.