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Optimove QA Automation Engineer 
United Kingdom, Scotland 
8735375

19.11.2024
As a data company, Optimove is trusted by our clients to ensure they get the most from their data. Our unique products allow our clients to use their data to maximum effect. We enable that by ensuring our products meet their requirements both in terms of reliability and offering.
Our ideal candidate will have experience working as a QA engineer on an enterprise-level application preferably web-based and full-stack. They should have good organization skills for managing their work streams, experience working within an agile team using SCRUM methodologies, and a passion for their craft.
In this role, the candidate will be encouraged and supported to contribute to existing test suites as well as create new ones for our growing list of microservices. There will be a high level of documentation involved to ensure our test suites grow sustainably and knowledge can be shared with your colleagues. You will have the confidence to introduce new ways of doing things as well as suggesting improvements in our current processes. We want to evolve and look to our engineers to help drive that positive change. This includes setting and enforcing standards for QA within R&D, helping us move faster with our feature delivery to our clients safely and reliably.You will also be expected to identify any training needs or tools that you require in order to hone your craft at Optimove. As the industry moves ever more quickly it is important that you are able to adapt to these industry changes also.
Your responsibilities will include
  • creating and maintaining automated test suits and working with development engineers to author the required test cases
  • planning and executing test plans against incoming sprint work
  • running regression testing to help reduce the risk of development bugs impacting existing functionality
  • exploratory testing where necessary
  • contributing estimations in planning to ensure QA effort is considered
  • updating the team on the progress of test runs and communicating any defects raised.
  • helping development engineers reproduce defects found through clear and concise documentation
Required skills include
  • experience working with an enterprise-level web-based application
  • understanding of common QA methodologies and tooling
  • understanding of API-driven applications
Desirable skills include
  • experience working within an agile team using SCRUM methodologies
  • knowledge of Javascript, PHP, MySQL, and cloud-based platforms such as GCP, AWS, or Azure
  • experience in mobile app testing