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YLD.io
Contract QA Automation Engineer
Location: Remote (Brazil/Argentina)
Department: Engineering
Contract role
About YLD:
Everything we do is to empower our clients to move forward. Great technology companies are built on incredible design, engineering and strategy, working in unison, operating at the very heart of an organisation and its audience. Enabling organisations to become great technology companies is our mission, and our promise to our clients. We aim to leave them with the mindset, tools, skills and expertise they need to go beyond their own expectations, revolutionise their sectors, and for us to be proud of the change we create with them and their customers.
Our Mission:
Our purpose is to help our clients develop the capabilities they need to outperform their competitors. Our success is a consequence of ensuring our clients are successful. Our company is built on extraordinary people; we aim to attract, inspire, develop and retain them. YLD is a software engineering and design consultancy; we create digital capabilities for our clients that last beyond our engagement. We have offices in London, Lisbon, Porto.
About The Role:
We are looking for a QA Engineer to assess software quality through automated testing. You will be responsible for finding and reporting bugs and glitches, and ensure that our products, applications and systems work correctly.
In this role, you should have a keen eye for detail and excellent communication skills.
You also should have a real passion for problem-solving, be an active learner and get excited by working collaboratively with those around you. Experience in working in Node.js environments is a must.
Technical competencies:
Proven experience as an Automation Tester or similar role;
- Experience in project management and QA methodology;
- Familiarity with Agile frameworks and regression testing is a plus;
- Ability to document and troubleshoot errors;
- Proven experience with tools/languages such as Jest, NodeJS, Selenium WebDriver and Cypress.io.
Non-Technical competencies:
- Problem-solving skills that balance innovation with pragmatic technology choices to solve business needs;
- Excellent English communication skills;
- Analytical mind and problem-solving aptitude;
- Strong organisational skills;
- Comfortable working in a dynamic production environment and taking care of client expectations effectively;
- Distinct customer focus and quality mindset;
- An exemplar of YLD’s brand and safeguarder of our reputation;
- Good communication skills (both verbal and written).
Your day-to-day responsibilities will look like this:
- Developing an automation framework using NodeJS (ExpressJs);
- Design, develop, and maintain automated testing frameworks and scripts using Cypress.io with (TS/JS);
- Working with playwright (Codeceptjs/Pupeteer) to test features including heavy use of mocking techniques for HTTP and WebSocket protocols;
- Working with Selenium WebDriver to write automation tests for testing 3rd parties APIs and services from APigee;
- Using WebDriver to write automation tests;
- Working with Jenkins as a CI/CD tool to run tests and suites for different environments like QA/Dev/Stage;
- Write unit tests using Jest;
- Collaborate with developers to identify and resolve bugs;
- Strong experience working on Agile methodology;
- Using Jira as a task management tool and Zephyr to manage test cases;
- Using Testomat for reporting/auditing automated test results.
What you’ll get in return:
- The chance to work with a forward-thinking, ethical, and fun group of people and to develop and grow your skills in a fast-moving business
Our typical Recruitment Process looks like this:
- 1st Interview with someone from the Talent team (30/45 mins)
- Technical Interview with our Senior Developers (1h30)
- Meet and discuss with a Client Partner (15/30mins)
We live and breathe our values, and know you will too:
- Growing every day
- Including everyone
- Relationships built on honesty and ethics
- Inspiring solutions
- Winning together
We’re an equal opportunity employer and value diversity of all kinds. We don’t discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, age, marital status, or disability status. We also believe in work-life balance and offer flexible working around our core hours.
We’re a software engineering and design consultancy, helping your team succeed by fostering a progressive culture of learning.
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