Quality Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Pension/401k

Stock options

Generous holiday entitlement

Mental health days

Development allowances

Job summary

A global API management company is seeking a QA Engineer to enhance the software development process through manual testing and automation. You'll work in an Agile environment, creating manual tests for web applications while also maintaining the automation framework. Essential skills include extensive manual testing experience and familiarity with automation tools such as Postman and Selenium. Join this innovative team in Greater London and contribute to high-quality API management solutions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of manual testing experience.
• Hands-on API testing experience.
• Familiarity with basic automation concepts.

Responsibilities

• Research and maintain automation framework.
• Create and maintain API tests across multiple layers.
• Collaborate with developers to enhance test procedures.

Skills

Manual testing experience

API testing

Automation testing with Postman and Selenium

Java and/or TypeScript

Strong communication skills

Tools

Postman

Selenium

SonarQube

Job description

Overview

Gravitee is a global API management platform with a strong open source foundation. We are recruiting for a QA Engineer (manual testing) to join our team in Greater London, United Kingdom. This role focuses on improving the efficiency of our software development process and the quality of our products by research, development, maintenance, and coaching on test practices.

Join the API revolution at Gravitee and help redefine what’s possible in API management and digital transformation.

The Role

QA Engineer, manual testing. You will research, develop, maintain, coach and provide best practice to create a test framework to continuously improve the quality of our software products.

What You Will Be Doing

• Working in an Agile methodology (SCRUM) with Developers, POs, Scrum Masters and Architects
• Creating manual tests for web UI applications built with Angular and AngularJS
• Develop, own and maintain automation framework
• Build and configure automated tests in CI pipelines
• Maintain automated test packs for sanity, pre-deployment and post-deployment across the product platform
• Create and maintain API tests across multiple layers of the testing pyramid
• Analyze and document product defects
• Maintain, enhance and develop test automation strategy
• Collaborate with developers to design a full suite of testing procedures
• Raise testing standards and coach software engineers on writing better tests
• Work with other QA engineers to build testing framework and best practices
• Investigate production issues to identify missing or new tests
• Keep up to date with quality tools, practices and trends and introduce them to the team
• Participate in discovery of technical solutions with focus on testing (three amigos approach)

Who You Are

• Passionate and motivated about work and life
• Sense of urgency and follow-through
• Thrives in a fast-paced, agile startup environment
• Customer-focused with a customer-first mentality
• Respectful, courteous, harmonious, and conscientious

Essential Skills

• 5+ years of manual testing experience
• Familiarity with basic automation concepts
• Hands-on automation testing with tools such as Postman, Selenium
• Hands-on API testing experience
• Experience with test management and defect tracking tools
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience creating tests in Java and/or TypeScript
• Knowledge of Kafka
• Ability to define and use different test strategies (unit, component, integration, system tests)

Desirable Skills

• Experience in complex and dynamic environments
• Experience with API ecosystem or fintech domains
• Maintaining and improving codebase quality
• Testing in a cloud environment
• Experience with tools like SonarQube
• Non-functional/performance testing experience
• Other benefits may include medical coverage, pension/401k, stock options, generous holiday entitlement, mental health days and development allowances

EEO Statement

Gravitee is an equal opportunity employer. No employee or applicant will be treated less favorably on the grounds of sex, marital status, race, color, nationality or ethnic origin, disability, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy or maternity, civil partner status, or religion or belief.

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