(Lead) QA Automation Engineer - Remote (European timezones)

Talarian

Posted 2 years ago

We are hiring a QA automation engineer, to help increase the quality of our product Form Publisher to the level that our customers deserve. Our QA stack is brand new, made with NodeJS, Playwright, Selenium for older browser compatibility and Github Actions.

Our applications consist of multiple artifacts: Google Workspace add-ons, traditional web apps, marketing websites. Add-ons in particular live inside Google’s own products, which makes for interesting QA challenges. They are built with React, Typescript, Google Apps Script, Firebase, Node JS, Java and PostgreSQL. Everything is on Google Cloud Platform.

Your responsibilities:

Contribute to our QA strategy
Implement new automated tests in existing frameworks to increase coverage
Create test automation frameworks when needed
Design test plans and test cases for new and existing features
Plan and coordinate testing activities around releases
Incorporate tests into the software engineering process (Jira, build, release)
Contribute to manually testing important new features
Try to break our product in every possible way so that we can make it bulletproof
Identify, report and track product defects
Help in root cause analysis

You:

You have a passion for quality assurance and strong attention to details
You are relentless, and don’t let things slip through the cracks easily
You think adversarially, and like to try to break things: the first thing you’ll try when you see a form is inserting special characters or an SQL injection
You embrace the Modern Testing principles
You’ve done it before
You’re a team player

Your qualifications:

Experience: 5+ years as a QA engineer preferably on SaaS products with many users.
QA frameworks: deep knowledge of at least 2 testing frameworks such as Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, Puppeteer. Experience with visual diff testing a plus
Software engineering: experience with NodeJS, build tools, CI/CD pipelines
Cloud: you have experience with one of the 3 main cloud platforms. Bonus points for GCP and serverless experience
Project tracking tools: proficiency with spreadsheets, Github, Jira and other typical software engineering tools
Language: fluent English
Writing: you enjoy writing, you care about words and grammar, you are sharp and thorough

Benefits (depending on the type of contract):

A good compensation that gives you financial peace of mind, wherever you live
30 days of paid time off including national holidays
Medical, dental and vision insurance
Paid parental leave

How to apply:

We want to get a sense of how you write and think. To that end, please write an email that covers at least the following:

Tell us why you want this job, and why our products are interesting to you
Tell us about an interesting/challenging test case you had to build
Include a link to something you're proud of having written online (or copy/paste if not public - we won't share)

Working with us requires a lot of writing/communicating, so please use your application to show off those skills. Stock cover letters won't do.

Send to the email address indicated on WWR.

Interview process:

We will first ask you a few targeted questions to be answered by email so as to get acquainted with you in writing

If that goes well, we’ll send you a take-at-home technical test that should take 3-4 hours to complete

You’ll then move on to an interview with a Lead Engineer

Finally, an interview with the CTO

We can’t wait to hear from you!

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