QA Automation Engineer

apartmentApplied Blockchain placeLondon scheduleFull-time calendar_month 

About Applied Blockchain

Applied Blockchain is an innovative applications development company based in London, United Kingdom and in Porto, Portugal, focusing on distributed ledger technology and advanced cryptography.

About the role

The position we’re recruiting for is on an established trading system development project with a large enterprise client, handling millions of dollars of traded value each day. We are looking for a senior or high performing QA Automation Engineer to join our development team.

Please note that it is not a blockchain-based application.

What you’ll be doing
  • Building and maintaining automated test pipelines utilising Playwright tests
  • Analyse, understand, and review the products’ functional and non-functional requirements and identify gaps and inconsistencies
  • Develop automated tests for software validation, ensuring high quality of the system
  • As part of the QA team, take ownership of quality aspects of the system
  • Report and manage/triage existing defects, ensuring proper follow-up and actions are being taken by the team
  • Promote and adopt QA best practices, contributing to their continuous improvement
  • Contribute to the definition of test automation guidelines and standards in order to improve the software testing process
Requirements
  • QA Engineering Experience (software testing experience). At least three years experience writing automated tests for web and/or non-web based applications
  • Knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes with fluency in Javascript/Typescript and Git/GitHub
  • Knowledge of Jest, Playwright and BDD tools (e.g. Cucumber)

Nice to have:

  • Experience of high volume, high availability, high stakes enterprise systems
  • Experience building and/or testing REST and/or web socket based APIs
  • Experience with trading applications (in production)
  • Performance testing experience with K6, Artillery or similar
Benefits
  • 5 days/per year for training
  • £1,000 annual allowance for training (up to 50% of this value can be used for you to buy workstation equipment to work from home)
  • In-person fun team events/team buildings every 3 months
  • Company equipment and onboarding kit
  • Annual bonus (dependent on company and personal performance)
  • Stock option plan
  • Birthday off
  • Generous employee referral programme
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