We have a vacancy for an experienced Sr QA Engineer to join us on a full-time, long-term basis as a contractor. In this role, you will be working on exciting consulting projects for our client partners and also Whitespectre's SaaS platform for Network Driven Commerce (paragoncommerce.com).
You'll work within a fast-moving cross-functional team of backend and frontend engineers, Product, and UI/UX to solve interesting technical challenges and create products that drive real business growth at scale.
Whitespectre is a technology consultancy that develops high-performing platforms and applications. We work with both high-growth start-ups and large established companies looking to launch new products. Founded in 2015, we're a team of 70 smart and diverse architects, engineers, product managers, and designers from across the globe, working together remotely- and we're growing!
What do we offer?
- A focussed adherence to our agile/scrum processes (we really believe it helps to get good work done)
- An expectation that you understand the product, that you help Product Managers and Developers think through the implications of new features.
- A great working atmosphere where you can share and learn with other smart people
- The best-in-class toolsets: Slack, CI/CD with Docker etc
- Competitive rates
- A long-term working relationship: at least a year working on this project, then others.
- Work as part of a talented, globally distributed, successful team (working hours are 11am - 8pm Central European time)
What you'll be doing
- Manual frontend and API testing
- Writing automation tests
- A key member of the team in ensuring the quality of changes that we release to production.
- Strong debugging skills (JavaScript, browser console, Node, Android logs)
- Good analytical skills and capacity to break down bigger testing projects/requirements into smaller blocks
- An strong understanding how to triage issues and respond based on their impact/urgency.
- Improve how we design the team’s approach to the quality of the product.
- Get to work with UI, contract, and model-based testing tools using technologies like JavaScript, Cypress, Cucumber, Watir, Capybara, Selenium, and RSpec. every day.
- Work closely with the product team, stakeholders, and users from the preliminary planning work, understand the product well, from different perspectives, and have a holistic view of it.
- Plan and deliver new features.
- Build tools and libraries to simplify the development and improve the quality of the work.
Who you are:
- You are eager to dive into a product as early as possible to test new features.
- You have solid experience working within an Agile/Scrum environment.
- You value quality and take pride in everything you deliver as a reflection of yourself.
- You are self-organize and know how to deliver on time achieving great quality.
Good English verbal and written communication skills are essential.
This is a contract position with a long term outlook (12 months+ full-time project) for the right candidate.
What do we offer?
- 100% Remote team: Work as part of a talented, globally distributed, successful team with over 8 years of remote experience.
- Interesting challenges: We’ve done everything from scaling high-performance applications, building beautiful (but complex) user interfaces to low-level Bluetooth communication with hardware devices.
- Impact: Our delivery teams are fast-moving, highly collaborative, and own products end to end- your thinking and contribution make a big impact!
- Great environment: We provide a great working atmosphere where you can share and learn with other smart people.
- Career progression: We want you to grow with us and provide the opportunities, knowledge sharing, and mentorship to do that.
- The best-in-class toolsets: Slack, CI/CD with Docker etc
- Work-life balance: love your work, but know that it doesn’t take over your life.
- Paid Meetups: Come meet with your colleagues in Barcelona or at a local meetup.
- Competitive rates
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