QA Engineer

With Wise; Metropolitan Borough of Solihull; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A progressive tech company in the UK is seeking a QA Engineer to enhance software quality through collaboration with cross-functional teams. You will automate tests, do exploratory testing, and report bugs while contributing to maintaining high-quality standards. Ideal candidates have a strong grasp of Typescript, automation frameworks like Playwright or Cypress, and experience with CI/CD processes. Join a team that values quality and customer satisfaction.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of Typescript for custom test frameworks.
• Experience in front end test automation frameworks.
• Practical knowledge of Git is essential.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Enhance software quality by collaborating with teams.
• Write automated test code for API and UI.
• Conduct exploratory testing and maintain test suites.
• Perform root cause analysis and support mobile testing.

Skills

Attention to detail

Cross-functional teamwork

Manual testing

Customer advocacy

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

Git

API testing tools

Job description

Overview

Over the past five years, the Wise team has focused on solving the big problems. As a result, we have created a service that is unrivalled in the market of self-employment. The Wise team wanted to bring big company benefits to a self-employed workforce giving companies that use Wise a competitive edge when engaging their workforce. Check out our website for further information and we look forward to walking you through our current tech stack and vision for the future!

Our Culture

Everyone in the Wise team is involved in our company's vision and success. Building the best products means we need the best team, we\'re really proud of the team we\'ve built so far and want to continue that growth. We\'re looking for passionate and collaborative self-starters that like to get things done and know how to have fun while doing so. In return, our team is rewarded, recognised and celebrated!

The role

Reporting to the Head of QA, the QA Engineer will enhance software quality by working closely with Engineering, Product, and Customer Success teams and will sit in one of our Agile squads. Key responsibilities include writing automated test code (API and UI), exploratory testing, providing feedback on requirements, and maintaining test suites. The role also involves bug reporting, performing root cause analysis, and conducting mobile testing. Additionally, the engineer will contribute to process documentation and knowledge sharing. This position aims to reduce defects, improve customer satisfaction, and ease the workload on related teams.

What you’ll bring to the role

• A passion for quality in both the product we deliver and the code you write.
• An understanding of tests in infrastructure and the importance of testing in continuous delivery.
• Make the most of manual testing: champions the customer and the user experience.
• Demonstrates meticulous attention to detail to identify and address issues promptly and accurately.
• Works effectively with cross-functional teams, including developers, product managers.
• Be an advocate for guidelines for quality assurance processes, including standards for test planning, execution, and reporting.
• Maintains a strong commitment to delivering high-quality products that meet or exceed customer expectations.

Technical skills/knowledge

• Strong understanding of Typescript and its use in creating custom test frameworks, scripts and data manipulation. - essential
• Expert in a front end test automation framework such as Playwright or Cypress - essential
• Practical knowledge of Git - essential
• Experience with automation API testing - essential
• Experience with integration testing web & mobile applications with third party systems - essential
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and contribution of continuous QA effort - essential
• Have worked in more than one programming language with an understanding of using the best tool for the job - desirable
• Ability to utilise production logging software (Datadog, Mixpanel, etc…) to help isolate customer facing issues and provide context for bugs - desirable
• Scripting and automation - to be able to use technologies such as bash to write and automate essential processes to the role - desirable
• Experience with microservices and GraphQL - desirable
• Working knowledge of Go - desirable