Quality Assurance at Clockwork Media

Job description

Clockwork Media is on the hunt for a Creative and Tech Quality Assurer. As the final sign-off of all creative work you will have an exceptional eye for detail and will ensure accuracy at various stages of the creative process against requirements of the brief and against client CI. You will be able to provide clear and concise feedback to relevant team members. The role of a quality assurer is also to test and sign off the functionality of server and client side applications and websites.

Roles and responsibilities

Copy

• Check all copy for grammatical errors and any typos, including factual and language errors, currency, brand style and tonality, inconsistencies, disclaimers, and spacing
• Develop, maintain and evolve brand identity image
• Ensure copy adheres to the requirements of the various media platforms
• Check that copy follows the brand CI
• Trim copy, suggest alternate captions and ensure copy is 'reader-friendly'

Design

• Check all copy in designs
• Check creative layout against design standards and principles and, where applicable, information architecture and wireframes

Dev

• Check websites across browsers (functionality as per the functional specification or brief, graphical rendering of applications as per the PSD)
• Check applications (functionality as per the functional specification or brief, graphical rendering of applications as per the PSD)
• Check mobile applications and web sites across all applicable devices functionality as per the functional specification or brief, graphical rendering of applications as per the PSD)
• Write test cases (Required input and expected output/result)
• Test against test cases

Experience

• Experience in copyediting or proofreading
• Understand design standards and practices
• Understand communication and advertising principles
• Understand web, mobile and print design standards and practices
• Experience working with various digital and print platforms
• Good internet and technology skills
• Good understanding of Responsive Web design
• Fundamental understanding of HTML
• Experience with mobile applications
• Experience with various email clients

Qualifications

• Matric
• Tertiary qualification (minimum 3 years)
• Courses in copyediting, English and proofreading
• ISTQB certification - Advantageous