We are recruiting an advanced QA automation engineer for a new Scrum team that will complement an existing K&C team working on a core project of the world’s biggest events company!

Ideally, you will also have manual testing experience of complex systems and software to analyse, review, verify, validate and test, improve complex specifications, acceptance criteria, features, technical tasks. 

This is a great opportunity to join the international K&C family in a remote role and gain experience with a blue chip member of the FTSE 100 and global sector leader!

Your profile

• Proactive: You want to solve problems, desire to experiment with new technologies but are pragmatic in implementation and weigh up options to come up with a plan to move forward.
• Experienced: We want you to be a person with good knowledge in related domains and willing to keep learning and improving with us to deliver highest quality products.
• Quick learner: Your abilities include quick and proficient understanding, absorbing, and synthesizing of new information.
• Collaborative: Your communication skills are great. You work well with team and stakeholders and care for results.
• Passionate: You have passion for testing software and interest in test automation along with improving quality and constantly striving to make it all more consistent, efficient, and reliable.
• Self-driving: You understand project and quality goals, seek opportunities for improvement and drive yourself and others to bigger achievements.

Core responsibilities

• Analyse, review, verify, validate and test complex specifications, acceptance criteria, features, technical tasks
• Identify, record, document thoroughly and track bugs
• Actively participate in all phases of testing in SDLC during the sprints and in all Scrum ceremonies (stand-ups, plannings, refinements, retros) and QA team related meetings
• Assist in ongoing process improvement efforts to ensure test planning, execution, and reporting methods are effective, efficient, standardized, coordinated, and integrated
• Perform manual functional/non-functional, regression, performance, acceptance testing where needed
• Suggest solutions to identified product or process problems
• Communicating with the QA Manager, PO and Dev Leads to triage the issues raised by you and QA team to prioritize the fixes
• Follow and adhere to the best-practices of software test engineering, Agile methodology, QA practices and processes in the organization
• Design and implement automated testing scripts using tools such as Puppeteer, Playwright, WD.io or other industry-standard tools (with mentoring if needed)
• Monitor and analyze system performance to identify areas for improvement and provide recommendations to developers
• Collaborate with other QA engineers to develop and maintain a library of test scripts and test cases

Requirements

• 3+ years in QA positions related to web applications testing
• Experience testing the full stack (FE/BE/Middleware), APIs and integrations with 3rd party services
• Ability to adapt quickly to a complex environment
• Strong verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate with developers and stakeholders
• Understanding of multi service architecture
• Experience working with GitHub, Atlassian products (Jira, Confluence, etc.), TestRail
• Strong understanding of SDLC and QA concepts and methodologies and best practices
• Attention to detail and following issues to resolution
• Ability to prioritize multiple competing tasks and manage time effectively
• Self-motivation and knowing when to seek guidance; detail-orientation is a must
• Understanding of REST principles
• Experience collaborating and working with multiple teams
• Strong analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving mindset
• Ability to think outside the box and openness to learn new and improve existing skills
• English – proficient

Will be a plus

• Experience in JavaScript
• Experience in TypeScript
• Experience in Jenkins
• Experience in Docker
• Experience in AWS Cognito
• Experience in DynamoDB
• Experience in S3
• Experience in Lambda
• Experience in Node.js
• Experience in React

The project’s core (but not limited to) tech stack

• NodeJS
• ReactJS
• JavaScript and TypeScript
• Puppeteer and Jest
• REST APIs
• Github
• Jenkins
• TestRail
• Docker
• AWS (Cognito, DynamoDB, S3, Lambdas etc

Why join the K&C team and this project?

• German IT company with HQ in Munich
• 23 years history
• Competitive compensation;
• Talented team without hierarchies
• 20 workdays of vacation per year, 15 days of paid sick leave;
• Fulltime remote work anywhere within the EU or Azerbaijan is possible; as is being based in one of our offices in Krakow or Sofia if you prefer an office environment or hybrid
• Flexible working schedule

Sounds interesting? We are excited to get to know you!