Address Overview:
The Content QA Analyst will be the gatekeeper of VAT Content accuracy for our VAT Reporting, SaaS Reporting, VAT Engine and Live Reporting solutions, reviewing the output of them. The optimal candidate will have in-depth experience with VAT legislation and compliance. As QA Analyst you will catch both the first round of simple mistakes, but also find the harder to spot problems early in the process. Achieving success will require you to be a technically adept, as well as a champion for improvement. Responsibilities:
Avalara works with businesses of all sizes, all over the world — from corner stores to gigantic global retailers — to calculate tax accurately and automatically, at speeds measured in milliseconds. That’s a massive technical challenge, in terms of scale, reliability, and complexity, and we do it better than anyone. That’s why we’re growing fast. Headquartered in Seattle, Avalara has offices across the U.S. and around the world, in Brazil, Canada, India, U.K, Belgium and across Europe.
Equal Opportunities:
Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law.
We are currently looking for a Content QA Analyst (VAT) to join our innovative, market leading company. This is a fantastic opportunity for a tax professional to join an entrepreneurial product team with an indemand, front running product powering the VAT world. As we add more countries and increased functionality to our products, the need for high quality software releases and continual positive customer experience grows.
The Content QA Analyst will be the gatekeeper of VAT Content accuracy for our VAT Reporting, SaaS Reporting, VAT Engine and Live Reporting solutions, reviewing the output of them. The optimal candidate will have in-depth experience with VAT legislation and compliance. As QA Analyst you will catch both the first round of simple mistakes, but also find the harder to spot problems early in the process. Achieving success will require you to be a technically adept, as well as a champion for improvement.
- Ensure that all content changes on are completely, thoroughly and articulately documented
- Confirm that business requirements are testable and verifiable to ensure requirements traceability and delivery of expected functionality
- Verify that user fields are in parity with the language captured in the forms or determination inputs to be populated
- Create and run scenarios to test the accuracy of content to be deployed. Check that output data meets customer expectations.
- Perform regression testing to resolve any impact or interplay that new content may have on existing content
- Maintain meticulous test data
- Document instructions describing content changes and provide customer guidance on how to effectively navigate the changes implemented, where appropriate.
- Effectively work and communicate with team members to accomplish specific tasks in a timely, efficient and productive manner.
- Open to accept additional responsibilities to enable the team to meet deadlines.
- 2+ years of experience in EU VAT compliance
- Qualifications in technical fields, such as accountancy, mathematics, economics
- Testing experience in web-based and database applications
- Written and spoken fluency in English
- Have a passion and flair for problem-solving
- Possess strong time management and organization skills to achieve priority results
- Demonstrate high standards of excellence in work product and professionalism
- Possess the ability and the desire to work collaboratively in cohesive teams
- Well-developed critical thinking skills are a must
- Possess the ability and desire to work in and adapt to a fast-paced, dynamic environment, whilst achieving priority results
- Possess excellent logical and analytical skills
- A high comfort level with technical tools
About Avalara:
We’re building cloud-based tax compliance solutions to handle every transaction in the world. Imagine every transaction you make — every tank of gas, cup of coffee, or pair of sneakers, every movie ticket, meal kit, or streamed song, every sensor-to-sensor ping. Nearly every time you make a purchase, physical or digital, there’s an accompanying unique and nuanced tax compliance calculation. The logic behind calculating taxes — the rules, rates, and boundaries is a global, layered, three-dimensional mess of complexity, with compliance dictated by governments and applied by every business, every day.
We’re building cloud-based tax compliance solutions to handle every transaction in the world. Imagine every transaction you make — every tank of gas, cup of coffee, or pair of sneakers, every movie ticket, meal kit, or streamed song, every sensor-to-sensor ping. Nearly every time you make a purchase, physical or digital, there’s an accompanying unique and nuanced tax compliance calculation. The logic behind calculating taxes — the rules, rates, and boundaries is a global, layered, three-dimensional mess of complexity, with compliance dictated by governments and applied by every business, every day.
Avalara works with businesses of all sizes, all over the world — from corner stores to gigantic global retailers — to calculate tax accurately and automatically, at speeds measured in milliseconds. That’s a massive technical challenge, in terms of scale, reliability, and complexity, and we do it better than anyone. That’s why we’re growing fast. Headquartered in Seattle, Avalara has offices across the U.S. and around the world, in Brazil, Canada, India, U.K, Belgium and across Europe.
Equal Opportunities:
Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law.
