Quality Assurance Engineer

Fiducia DLT; Greater London; Remote; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and stock options

Experienced and supportive teammembers

Fast track career development with a f

Development of advanced high-impact

Job summary

Fiducia DLT Limited is seeking an experienced Quality Assurance Engineer to join its technology team. You will design and execute exploratory and automated tests to ensure quality, reliability and security of our AWS-based platform written in Java, across large data feeds in the digital advertising supply chain.

You will develop test plans, implement automation, and collaborate with development and product teams to continuously improve quality metrics and prevent defects.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of hands-on experience in software quality assurance of complex software platforms in cloud environments.
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes.
• Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases.
• Hands-on experience with both white box and black box testing.
• Hands-on experience with automated testing tools.
• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process.
• A degree in Computer Science (preferred) or related engineering field.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with quality requirements of our software components and AWS infrastructure in line with company goals
• Review requirements, specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback
• Liaise with development and product teams to identify and clarify system requirements
• Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases
• Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities
• Design, develop and execute automation scripts
• Identify, record, document thoroughly and track bugs
• Perform thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved
• Develop and apply testing processes for new and existing products and software components to meet client needs and quality requirements
• Define and track quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and open defect counts
• Stay up-to-date with new testing tools and test strategies
• Timely problem solving

Skills

Agile/Scrum

Automation testing

White-box testing

Black-box testing

SQL

Scripting

Test plans & cases

Education

Computer Science degree

Tools

Automation tools

AWS

SQL tooling

Job description

Over the last decade Real-Time Bidding (RTB) created massive efficiency for the digital advertising marketplace in opening large volumes of inventory, driving down prices and creating the opportunity for smaller sites and apps to thrive. Today it has become a large $300B market that continues to grow at an accelerated pace with a supply chain that remains complex, fragmented, partly opaque and could be even more efficient. In a context where decisions are increasingly made by technology, traditional processes do not apply and there is a need to bring a technological solution to what is essentially a technological problem.

Fiducia is a UK company with a US subsidiary headquartered in London, that has been developing the platform of TAG TrustNet, a global cross-industry initiative, involving major trade associations in the US and the UK, and ta king the industry to the next level. As an always-on "industry transparency utility, TAG TrustNet is providing the tools to certify the supply chain and allow everyone to be accountable make responsible decisions an d improve efficiency.

TAG TrustNet is enabling this by automating the reconciliation of data across the supply chain and recording it in an immutable ledger as the Shared Truth: a unified record for every singly ad running across the supply chain made available in near real-time. The recorded data can then visualised in the platform Supply Chain Monitor or exported over an open API.

Why work for Fiducia?

• Competitive salary and stock options
• Experienced and supportive team members
• Fast track career development with a forward-thinking company
• Development of advanced high-impact technology

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced and talented individual to join our technology team as Quality Assurance Engineer. Your responsibility is to develop and execute exploratory and automated tests to ensure quality, reliability and security of our cloud environment and platform software components. Our platform is used across the digital advertising supply chain to harmonise, match and record billions of ad impression data points across multiple data feeds. We are using AWS cloud services and Java as primary programming language.

The Quality Assurance Engineer needs to have hands-on expertise in tracking quality assurance metrics, designing and implementing tests, debugging software and defining corrective actions. To qualify for the role, you need to be a team player with a solid background in the fundamentals of computer science, distributed computing, cloud systems and software quality assurance.

Your proven ability to define and implement quality assurance processes and effectively resolve system malfunctions to meet quality standards in a collaborative team environment will be a critical part of the consideration process.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with quality requirements of our software components and AWS infrastructure in line with company goals
• Review requirements, specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback
• Liaise with development and product teams to identify and clarify system requirements
• Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases
• Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities
• Design, develop and execute automation scripts
• Identify, record, document thoroughly and track bugs
• Perform thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved
• Develop and apply testing processes for new and existing products and software components to meet client needs and quality requirements
• Define and track quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and open defect counts
• Stay up-to-date with new testing tools and test strategies
• Timely problem solving

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of hands-on experience in software quality assurance of complex software platforms in cloud environments
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes
• Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases
• Hands-on experience with both white box and black box testing
• Hands-on experience with automated testing tools
• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process
• A degree in Computer Science (preferred) or related engineering field