Senior AQA Engineer (with Salesforce)

• Work as part of cross-functional agile team to ensure quality is driven into the heart of the development process from the requirements stage through to delivery.
• Promote a ‘shift-left’ approach to testing, ensuring tests are identified, prepared, and executed as early as possible in the lifecycle.
• Represent the interest of the customer and the experience of the end user during the delivery process.
• Develop and evolve test frameworks using best-in-class tools and technologies.
• Support testing at different levels of the test pyramid – i.e., unit, integration, service, contract, end-to-end testing.
• Write and review test code to ensure high standards in terms of test coverage, as well as resilience, maintainability, and performance of the test automation suite
• Perform manual testing – functional, exploratory, localization – when needed.
• Participate in agile ceremonies (Stand Ups, Sprint Planning, Retrospectives etc).
• Use appropriate metrics/KPIs to validate and report on software quality.
• Proactively bring issues and problems to the attention of the team to ensure timely and appropriate actions are taken.
• Apply risk assessment methods to identify quality risks and impact and, where possible, take appropriate mitigating measures.
• Participate in test plan/strategy review and process review and help drive continuous improvement.
• Log defects in a clear and understandable manner, and work with the Product team to triage and prioritize defects for resolution.
• Collaborate with developers in problem spaces to pair-test functionalities and debug issue

• 4+ years of hands-on experience in Quality Assurance
• Proficiency in Object Oriented Programming language e.g., Java, JavaScript, etc
• Strong experience (2-3 years of practical experience) with Salesforce.
• Experience in defining test strategy, test plan and test cases.
• Hands-on experience working with mobile test automation tools e.g., Appium, Calabash, Espresso; IDEs such as XCode, Android Studio, VS-Code; and network monitoring tools such as Charles Proxy, Fiddler or similar.
• Practical experience testing Webservices/RESTful APIs with tools such as RESTAssured or Postman, and testing Microservices with tools such as PACT (contract testing).
 • Experience with iterative Lean/Agile methodologies e.g., Scrum or Kanban.
• Prior experience with CI/CD tools such as GitLab CI, Jenkins, Bitrise etc.
• Knowledge of version control with GIT and a good understanding of branching and merging concepts.
• Good understanding of approaches such as BDD, TDD, ATDD and how it can be applied to test both backend services and frontend.
• Experience of both functional and non-functional testing – security, performance, accessibility etc – aspects of testing.
• Experience diagnosing, reporting, tracking, and resolving defects and issues using tool, such as JIRA, Trello etc.
• Practical experience with public Cloud infrastructures such as AWS, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, and Cloud testing platforms such as BrowserStack, AWS Device Farm, Saucelab etc.

 Qualifications
• Degree in Computer Science, IT, Systems Engineering or a related qualification

About you:

• Driven by the desire to help build solutions that make a difference.
• Have a strong view of what success looks like. Not afraid to question the status quo.
• A problem solver who is prepared to use their initiative and present solutions.
• Strong task orientation (gets things done) and can manage competing priorities.
• Understand the software development life cycle and how quality engineering fits in.
• Have a passion for quality advocacy. A good communicator and collaborator.
• Have a solid understanding of the mobile ecosystem.

Nice to have:

• Experience testing payment processing solutions.
• Experience in both manual testing and automation of different mobile app journeys on both iOS and Android.
• Extensive experience testing mobile platforms, specifically iOS and Android.
• Knowledge of blockchain technology and NFT. 
• Experience with Cypress will be a plus.