QA Engineer (UK)

Goodnotes; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Goodnotes is seeking a Quality Assurance Engineer to enhance its quality assurance processes. The role involves improving UI automation tests, managing test cases, and collaborating with product and engineering teams to ensure high-quality software delivery. Candidates with extensive experience may be considered for a Senior QA Engineer position.

Benefits

Meaningful equity in a profitable tech-startup

Budget for home office setup and personal development

Flexible working hours and location

Medical insurance for you and your dependents

Qualifications

• Experience with manual testing across multiple platforms (iOS, Mac, Android, Windows).
• Hands-on experience with UI automation.
• Mentoring less experienced team members.

Responsibilities

• Enhance and expand the UI automation test suite.
• Manage and execute test cases to ensure quality.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement QA processes.

Skills

Problem Solving

Communication

Automation Testing

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

At Goodnotes, we believe that every individual holds untapped potential waiting to be unleashed. By reimagining the way we interact with information, we’re merging human creativity with the breakthrough capabilities of AI. Our renewed vision and mission drive us to create the best medium for human and AI collaboration, empowering users to explore new dimensions of productivity, creativity, and learning. Join us on this journey as we transform digital note-taking into an inspiring and innovative experience.

Our Values:

Dream big
—Be visionary, strategic, and open to innovation
Build great things
—Work in service of our users, always improving and pushing higher
Operate like an owner
—Take responsibility with bold decision-making and bias for action
Win like a sports team
—Be trusting and collaborative while empowering others
Learn and grow fast
—Never stop learning and iterate fast
Share our passion
—Share ideas and practice enthusiasm and joy
Be user obsessed
—Empathetic, inquisitive, practical

We believe effort spent on tiny little details brought us to where we are today. We are looking for a Quality Assurance Engineer to own and drive some of the quality assurance process to enable the Goodnotes team to continue to deliver elegant and delightful solutions, whether they are in code or visible to users.

What you will achieve:

• Be the voice of Quality as part of a Cross-Functional Product team
• Enhance and expand our UI automation test suite to improve coverage
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to develop, enhance, and implement quality assurance processes and activities
• Work closely with our product and engineering team to anticipate new features and ensure their testability
• Manage and execute test cases (both manual and automated) to ensure all shipped features/updates are meeting our quality bar
• Assist Customer Support team in debugging/reproduce complex issues reported by users
• Analyse and manage bugs tickets

What you need to be successful:

• Planned and implemented best practices and tools for software QA plan
• Actively contributed on UI automation
• Experience mentoring les experience team members or contractors
• Extensive hands on experience with manual testing and planning on multiple platforms (e.g. iOS, Mac, Android, Windows)
• Experience in designing and executing all quality assurance process for a new product from ideation to production
• Proud of your job, sense of product ownership
• Excellent problem solving and communication skills
• Interested in growing your automation testing skills

Even if you don’t meet all the criteria listed above, we would still love to hear from you! Goodnotes places a lot of value on learning and development and will support your growth if needed.

The interview process:

• An introductory call with the hiring manager to hear more about your background, what you are looking for, and why you’d like to join Goodnotes
• A take home exercise to demonstrate your skills
• A role-specific technical interview to discuss your background and skill set for this role more in detail involving low level bug finding & code/pseudocode writing,
• A call with your hiring manager. This is the person who will be managing you day to day, working on your growth and development with you as well as support you throughout your career at Goodnotes
• A meet the team interview

What’s in it for you:

• Meaningful equity in a profitable tech-startup
• Budget for things like noise-cancelling headphones, setting up your home office, personal development, professional training, and health & wellness
• Sponsored visits to our Hong Kong or London office every 2 years
• Company-wide annual offsite
• Flexible working hours and location
• Medical insurance for you and your dependents

Candidates with more extensive experience may be considered for the Senior QA Engineer role.

Note: Employment is contingent upon successful completion of background checks, including verification of employment, education, and criminal records.

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