Key Takeaways

  • 75% of U.S. employers use automated applicant tracking systems to screen resumes before a human reviews them (Harvard Business School & Accenture, 2021)
  • The most common ATS failures are missing keywords, incompatible formatting, and incorrect file types
  • ResumeGeni scores your resume across 8 parsing layers — modeled on the same steps enterprise ATS platforms like Workday, Greenhouse, and Taleo use to evaluate candidates

How ATS Resume Scoring Works

Applicant tracking systems parse your resume into structured data — extracting your name, contact info, work history, skills, and education — then score how well that data matches the job requirements. Many ATS rejections happen because the parser couldn't extract critical fields, not because the candidate wasn't qualified.

LayerWhat It ChecksWhy It Matters
Document extractionFile format, encoding, readabilityCorrupted or image-only PDFs fail immediately
Layout analysisTables, columns, headers, footersMulti-column layouts break field extraction
Section detectionExperience, education, skills headingsNon-standard headings cause sections to be missed
Field mappingName, email, phone, dates, titlesMissing contact info is a common cause of immediate rejection
Keyword matchingJob-specific terms, skills, certificationsKeyword overlap affects recruiter search visibility and ATS scoring
Chronology checkDate ordering, gap detectionReverse-chronological order is expected by most ATS
QuantificationMetrics, numbers, measurable outcomesQuantified achievements help human reviewers and some scoring models
Confidence scoringOverall parse quality and completenessLow-confidence parses get deprioritized in results

Frequently Asked Questions

Is ResumeGeni free?
Yes. ResumeGeni is currently in beta — ATS analysis, scoring, and initial improvement suggestions are free with no signup required. Full guidance and saved reports may require a free account.
What file formats are supported?
PDF, DOCX, DOC, TXT, RTF, ODT, and Apple Pages. PDF and DOCX are recommended for best ATS compatibility.
How is the ATS score calculated?
Your resume is processed through an 8-layer parsing pipeline that extracts structured data the same way enterprise ATS platforms do. The score reflects how completely and accurately your resume can be parsed, plus how well your content matches common ATS ranking criteria.
Can ATS read PDF resumes?
Yes, but not all PDFs are equal. Text-based PDFs parse well. Image-only PDFs (scanned documents) and PDFs with complex tables or multi-column layouts often fail ATS parsing. Our analyzer will flag these issues.
How do I improve my ATS score?
Focus on three areas: use a clean single-column format, include keywords from the job description naturally in your experience bullets, and ensure all sections (contact, experience, education, skills) use standard headings.

ATS Guides & Resources

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Quality Engineer

In The Pocket · Belgium

About us

We're an independent European digital product studio with a strong track record of delivering market-defining strategies and products for enterprises and governments. With about 200 talented people across three countries, premium AI capabilities and a diverse portfolio of international clients, we define, design and ship high-quality digital products, strategies and software. From global cloud-based platforms and large-scale apps to medical devices, banking software and augmented reality experiences. In a nutshell: if it lives and breathes digital, it’s what we do best.

Become a part of our team

At In The Pocket, you join a multidisciplinary team of designers, engineers, strategists and data specialists who care about the work as much as the people they work with. We work in small, autonomous teams that stay close to our clients and their users, and we give everyone the space to take ownership, speak up and grow. You’ll learn from colleagues across our studios, ship products that reach thousands or even millions of people and help shape what digital can do for leading organisations in Europe.

What you’ll do 

Software delivery is accelerating fast, and AI is at the heart of it. That brings exciting opportunities, but also new complexity: more code shipped means more to validate, more to govern, and more to get right. We're looking for a Quality Engineer who thrives in that environment. Someone who can shape a quality strategy that keeps pace with change, and who knows how to leverage AI as a tool without losing sight of the hard questions it raises.

At In The Pocket, this role is less about running tests and more about owning quality as a discipline: setting the strategy, earning buy-in, coaching people, and making sure the right guardrails are in place, even as the tools and the pace of delivery keep evolving.

Quality Strategy & Governance

  • Design and own a scalable quality strategy for accelerated software delivery.
  • Monitor quality health using meaningful metrics and govern compliant release management processes.
  • Identify and fix structural quality issues through process changes, tooling, or coaching.

AI-Augmented Quality Engineering

  • Actively explore and evaluate AI support for quality work, including generating test cases and deploying autonomous agents.
  • Address the challenge of validating AI test agents themselves and ensuring their reliability.
  • Stay close to AI tooling developments and apply a critical, evidence based perspective on what to adopt.

Quality Assurance

  • Challenge designs, user stories, and acceptance criteria early and often from a quality perspective.
  • Design, develop, and execute test cases, scripts, plans, and procedures.
  • Facilitate automated UI testing and guide teams on unit, integration, and system testing.

Communication & Stakeholder Management

  • Communicate quality status, risks, and strategy clearly to all stakeholders.
  • Build alignment on quality standards across all disciplines: developers, designers, product managers, and leadership.
  • Influence, coach, and guide teams toward better practices to ensure quality is everyone's responsibility.

Who you are 

  • Proven experience (5+ years) in software quality engineering or a related field.
  • Strong analytical and critical thinking skills: you can identify root causes, weigh trade-offs, and make well-reasoned decisions under uncertainty.
  • You have a track record of shaping quality processes, not just following them.
  • You’re an excellent communicator that knows how to explain complex concepts to different audiences. 
  • You understand the importance of alignment to achieve progress, and you know how to establish that.
  • Genuine curiosity about AI's role in software engineering: you follow what's changing, you experiment, and you form your own grounded view.
  • Assertive and flexible: you hold the line on what matters, and you know when to be pragmatic.
  • Basic programming knowledge; enough to collaborate meaningfully with engineers and evaluate technical quality decisions.

What we offer  

Joining In The Pocket means becoming part of a team that shapes the future of our clients’ businesses across Europe. Here’s what you can look forward to:

  • You’ll start with a permanent contract in a role that comes with responsibility and the opportunity to make a real impact from day one.
  • We offer a competitive salary that reflects your experience and the value you bring.
  • Our benefits package has you covered with hospitalization and group insurance, meal vouchers, a phone subscription, and more.
  • You’ll have a mobility budget that lets you decide how to get around, your way. 
  • Life at In The Pocket isn’t just about work, we host team events throughout the year to celebrate, connect, and have fun together.
  • Learning never stops here, so after six months, you’ll receive a dedicated learning and development budget to keep growing your skills and exploring new horizons.

At In The Pocket, we use artificial intelligence to support and not replace human judgment. AI can assist our Talent Acquisition  processes by helping to pre-screen applications, analyze and summarize CV's and identify skills gaps.

Human oversight is always applied when inviting candidates to interviews. Our Talent Acquisition team reviews AI-supported insights and make the final decision to ensure relevance, fairness, and thoughtful consideration of each candidate’s unique profile.

Human managers always make the final hiring decisions to ensure fairness, context, and accountability.

AI is a tool to support people, not a substitute for human responsibility.

At In The Pocket, we use artificial intelligence to support  not replace human judgment. AI can assist our Talent Acquisition  processes by helping to pre-screen applications, analyze and summarize CV's and and identify skills gaps.

Human oversight is always applied when inviting candidates to interviews. Our Talent Acquisition team reviews AI-supported insights and make the final decision to ensure relevance, fairness, and thoughtful consideration of each candidate’s unique profile.

Human managers always make the final hiring decisions to ensure fairness, context, and accountability.

AI is a tool to support people not a substitute for human responsibility.