(Senior) Software Integration Quality Engineer (online comparison portal)

Your Mission:

• As a back-end and integration testing expert you will enhance and extend existing test suites and test automation processes for our back-end teams.


• Your focus will be our new cloud-based tariff data services and APIs.


• You will coordinate QA activities with developers in your team as well as other teams like SRE, DevOps and Product Management.


• While we expect some manual testing for some of the time you should have an automation-focused approach to QA activities.


• You will have regular opportunities to collaborate with other QA colleagues to work on cross-product projects and larger QA initiatives to ensure high levels of quality across all our projects.


• Ideally you have a passion for metrics and data-driven approaches to improving software quality as well as assessing the risks and vulnerabilities of software with low coverage levels.


• We encourage a culture of regular process improvement and exploration of new QA technologies, frameworks, tools and practices – your ideas and experience will be welcome!


• You should be familiar with various techniques to investigate and help development teams to diagnose, monitor and resolve production incidents (e.g. log analysis, Google Analytics, NewRelic, Elastic, Sentry or similar).


• Document and troubleshoot product defects.


• Work with the development team to optimise and improve existing development and release processes.


• Manage a release process, including building, testing and monitoring back-end services and systems during deployments.

Your Profile:

• At least 5 years of general software quality experience or 2 years focused on back-end systems and integration testing.


• Experience using and occasionally also maintaining CI/CD pipelines when needed.


• Experience with Google Cloud, Kubernetes and Helm with Jenkins for CI/CD.


• Experience with test frameworks like CodeceptJS, Jest along with other Node.js tools is a plus.


• As well as having an analytical mindset you have a passion for test automation and replacing repetitive manual processes with scripts and automated systems.


• You should have a software background or at least be comfortable reading and writing code in at least one programming language, ideally JavaScript or TypeScript.


• API testing experience, especially with GraphQL and REST protocols as well as familiarity with JSON data handling.


• Experience testing cloud-based systems and microservices, ideally with exposure to Kubernetes (Google Cloud, GKE).


• Any experience with advanced testing techniques would be highly beneficial, e.g.
  
  
  
  • Contract-based testing with frameworks like Pact
  
  
  • Performance testing with Locust or similar frameworks
  
  
  
  


• Knowledge of GDPR and other European data privacy and software usability initiatives and regulations would be beneficial.


• A team-player mindset: experience working closely with cross-functional teams and a willingness to share knowledge with other team members.


• A proactive and pragmatic approach to defect analysis and problem solving.


• Willingness to seek out and explore new ideas and concepts in the wider field of software quality assurance.


• Experience and familiarity with Agile Development techniques and ceremonies like stand-ups, refinement meetings, retrospectives, code reviews, etc.


• Excellent written and spoken communication skills in English – some knowledge of German would be helpful but it's not required.


• ISTQB certification is a plus but not required.

Benefits:

• Fun work environment


• Brand new office, which includes small gym


• Gaming room, with arcade machine


• Fresh fruits and coffee


• Conferences and Trainings