Hybrid Senior QA Engineer for Cloud Security Platform

Upwind Security, Inc.; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Upwind Security, Inc. in Belfast (Northern Ireland) is seeking an experienced Senior QA Engineer to drive testing across multiple engineering teams.

This hands-on role writes test code weekly, builds and maintains test frameworks, and sets the standard for how teams test their work, spanning backend services in Golang and Java and frontend in React TS. You design test strategies for unit, integration, contract and end-to-end testing, integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines, and mentor engineers

Qualifications

• Designing, building and maintaining test frameworks and tooling for services, APIs and the user interface.
• Integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines as quality gates.
• Advocating for testing best practice and documenting standards for teams.

Responsibilities

• Designing, building and maintaining test frameworks and tooling for services, APIs and the user interface, and keeping them fast, reliable and easy for engineers to extend
• Working with teams to create test strategies and deciding what is tested at which level (unit, integration, contract, end-to-end) so most coverage sits below the user interface
• Integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines as quality gates, treating flaky or slow tests as defects to be fixed
• Advocating for testing best practice, and writing the standards, examples and documentation that teams adopt as their default
• Teaching engineers testing concepts, frameworks and techniques through pairing, code review, workshops and written guides
• Reviewing test code and production code with a testing lens, and giving clear, constructive feedback that raises quality
• Building test data sets and cloud test environments that verify the accuracy of security findings
• Contributing to performance, load and reliability testing and defining measurable quality targets
• Interfacing with Backend/Frontend/DevOps/Product/Customer Success to reproduce issues and define acceptance criteria

Job description

Upwind Security, Inc. in Belfast (Northern Ireland) is seeking an experienced Senior QA Engineer to drive testing across multiple engineering teams.

This hands-on role writes test code weekly, builds and maintains test frameworks, and sets the standard for how teams test their work, spanning backend services in Golang and Java and frontend in React TS. You design test strategies for unit, integration, contract and end-to-end testing, integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines, and mentor engineers