QA Automation Engineer (Remote)

Discipline: Technology, QA & Testing
Contact name: Daniel Genuis

Contact email: [email protected]
Job ref: 15159
Published: about 3 years ago
Our client, a modern Fintech company, is looking for an experienced QA Automation Engineer to join its growing family. The selected candidate will sit across the  company's three autonomous product teams to architect, implement, and continuously deliver the testing tools and infrastructure required to run tests at scale for both their front-end and back-end components.

Description:
  • Work with the Product, Engineering and DevOps teams in building core products
  • Create, test and maintain both the UI and service layers of the product
  • Support developers in understanding how to write more testable and robust code and software with the appropriate level of quality.
  • Collaboratively work across all areas of IT development, actively liaising with developers and business stakeholders to improve overall quality and performance.
  • Provide technical advice and guidance to the development team around strategies and production deployment plans with the team ensuring high availability of service.
  • Work both on new features and verification and optimizations of current ones
  • Source inspiration both from SMEs, clients and views from outside of the company's industry to create game changing products
  • Bring in the latest and greatest technologies discovered!
Requirements:
  • Understanding the benefits of using Automated Testing and when using is appropriate.
  • Ability to understand software architecture and the implications that this has on testing.
  • Good understanding of how to best design automated testing across application layers using UI, API, and Integration tests.
  • Excellent working knowledge of web automation tools such as Selenium in multiple browsers.
  • Ability to identify when performance testing is required and advise the team on how best to perform performance testing
  • Excellent bug reporting. Familiar with tools such as JIRA and Confluence.
  • Experience testing of APIs, Web Services and Backend Services.
  • Strong Agile philosophies from working in SCRUM/ Kanban/ Lean startup teams
  • A curious, fast learner & team player who is fluent in English and have an avid attention to detail
  • Financial or Gambling experience & mobile testing automation experience would score some extra points