User Acceptance Product Evaluator

Company: LinkedIn
Location: Omaha
Posted on: January 17, 2022

Job Description:

Company Description

LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network, built to help members of all backgrounds and experiences achieve more in their careers. Our vision is to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Every day our members use our products to make connections, discover opportunities, build skills and gain insights. We believe amazing things happen when we work together in an environment where everyone feels a true sense of belonging, and that what matters most in a candidate is having the skills needed to succeed. It inspires us to invest in our talent and support career growth. Join us to challenge yourself with work that matters.

Job Description

At LinkedIn, we trust each other to do our best work where it works best for us and our teams. This role offers both hybrid or remote work options, meaning you can work from home and commute to a LinkedIn office, depending on what's best for you and when it is important for your team to be together, or this role can be performed remotely in most locations in the country of employment.

As a User Acceptance Product Evaluator 2 (UAPe) you will evaluate the product quality of new and existing LinkedIn products and features. You will assess the readiness of our latest changes prior to thier being released through the planning and execution of evaluations across the entire portfolio of LinkedIn's products. These product evaluations will include black box user acceptance testing, accessibility testing, exploratory testing, and competitive benchmarking. You will join a team of member-focused product evaluators who work with product managers, engineers, and application designers, to help evaluate, shape and improve the product features that make our members successful each and every day.

As a User Acceptance Product Evaluator 2, you will develop proficient knowledge of LinkedIn's core products. You'll independently and comprehensively test user flows and functionalities. You will proactively engage in requirements gathering and discovery calls with stakeholders. You'll collaborate directly with cross functional teams on complex issues that require in-depth investigation. You'll influence product and engineering decisions with manager oversight and lead major work streams and key projects.

Responsibilities:

• Independently evaluate the next generation of product features and functionalities as well as help to sustain our current products flows.
• Collaborate with engineers and product managers to author and execute test cases based on product specs and member behavior.
• Consult with engineers, team leads, and product managers to provide member perspective on features and provide guidance such that they meet market needs with respect to functionality, usability, performance, and security.
• Collaborate with and provide potential solutions to cross-functional teams on complex issues, issues' severity, and impact.
• Use data to decide issue prioritization for Engineering and partner stakeholders.
• Present technical and functional details to leaders with both technical and non-technical backgrounds and provide recommendation on product readiness for public launch.
• Develop project plans with multiple work streams and help manage execution.
• Maintain test case repository as source of truth for expected product behavior and test coverage.
• Analyze member reported issues and recommend test coverage improvements.
• Use understanding of JIRA to identify trends and areas for improvement for the team.
• Use product knowledge to identify issues to create producible bug reports.
• Able to estimate the level of effort and balance and prioritize multiple projects in parallel.
  
  Qualifications
  
  Basic Qualifications:
  
  • BE/BS/BA degree required
  • 2+ years' experience in one or more of the following areas: User Testing, Product Evaluation, Quality Assurance, User Experience, Program/Project Management, Test Engineering, or Technical Support.
    
    Preferred Qualifications:
    
    • Experience in Agile Testing practices
    • Experience in JIRA
    • Experience with SQL or other database structures
    • Experience with APIs
    • Experience with Accessibility testing
      
      LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.
      
      As required by C.R.S.
      
      • 8-5-201(2): (Colorado only) The minimum pay for this role is $72,000. Actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years & depth of experience, certifications and specific office location. This may differ in other locations due to cost of labor considerations.
        
        The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock and benefits. For additional information, visit: https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits.
        
        Additional Information
        
        Equal Opportunity Statement
        
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