Mobile QA Engineer - Manual

Enigmatic Smile; Glasgow; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fintech scale-up in Glasgow is seeking a QA engineer to manage manual testing for native apps. The role involves collaborating with software engineers to enhance QA processes and ensure product quality. The company offers evolving benefits and opportunities for remote work.

Benefits

28 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Discretionary Bonus

Pension contributions

Medical cover

Training and certifications

Access to online training programmes

Qualifications

• Experience as a QA engineer or software engineer focused on product quality.
• Strong mobile testing experience required.
• Working knowledge of databases (NoSQL and SQL) essential.

Responsibilities

• Implementing testing tools and approaches for efficient QA processes.
• Conducting manual tests and improving QA methods.
• Performing root cause analysis of production errors.

Skills

Problem-solving attitude

Collaborative team spirit

Security focus

Tools

Git

Jira

Job description

As a QA engineer, you'll be responsible for managing manual native apps testing at all stages of the development cycle (SDLC). That will include writing and maintaining tests in collaboration with your team using our current testing process.
What do we do?

Enigmatic Smile is a fintech scale-up. We're a distributed team with a base in Glasgow, Scotland. Our customers are worldwide, and each country has different requirements we support through our platform. We are a visionary company looking to enable consumers, retailers, rewards publishers and banks around the world to improve customer experience.
Who are we looking for?

You will know your space and be confident in the way you complete your work, but know where your limitations are and collaborate with the wider team when needed. You like to have fun at work and have confidence that things you work on will "just work"; happy to jump in to help when things don't go to plan, because that happens sometimes in technology.

Our way of working

We're a distributed team, with the primary engineering teams in UK and Portugal. Our wider team are on most continents of the world. Your day to day team will be based in a European timezone (GMT +/- 2h). Our working language is English.

This role is primarily remote, with occassional travel/office visits.

Requirements
Objectives of this role

• Working on ways to improve development and QA processes by working together with software engineers
• Testing and examining code written by others and analysing results
• Identifying technical problems and working with the developers to solve the blockers as quickly and effectively as possible
• Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended
• Planning projects and being involved in project management decisions

Responsibilities

• Implementing testing tools and approaches
• Developing test suites where manual testing is needed
• Improving QA processes, including unit testing across our products
• Build tools to reduce the occurrence of errors and improve customer experience
• Perform root cause analysis of production errors and resolve technical issues

Required skills and qualifications

• Experience as a QA engineer or software engineer with a strong focus on product quality
• Proficiency with Git, Jira and other basic engineering tools
• Working knowledge of databases, both NoSQL/Document and SQL
• Problem-solving attitude
• Collaborative team spirit
• Security is a top focus

NB: This is a manual testing role. You will need strong mobile testing experience.

Benefits

As a scaling company, our benefits are evolving. As a minimum, you can expect:

• Fun work trips periodically, including meetups and events across UK and Europe.
• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays (based on the country you live in)
• Discretionary Bonus
• Pension contributions
• Training and certifications
• Medical cover
• Access to online training programmes

Benefits presently under review:

• Enhanced pension contributions

Salary range: £40-50k

Your team is based in Edinburgh, Scotland, with colleagues in Portugal and across the UK (primarily Scotland).