Automation QA Engineer London, England
Paydock
Full Time
London, England
10.56 - 12.04 GBP Today
Job description
Paydock is a Fintech Scaleup. We provide a sophisticated payment solution to online merchants who want to increase profit and flexibility in their payment solution. We work with large retailers, financial institutions, marketplaces and large Not-For-Profits. Our teams are located internationally across London, Ukraine and Sydney.
In the Automation QA Engineer role, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining the QA automation operations for our projects working in an agile organization. Your challenges: improve the QA automation process to drive the quality of our products, by writing, reviewing and executing automation test scripts.
You will have the opportunity to work with global leaders, payment service providers and technology vendors across Europe, APAC, the US and other markets while being part of the next generation of payments for merchants and the industry.
Report
As a significant contributor to the business, you will report to the QA Lead.
Responsibilities
- Designing and implementing an effective, reusable and maintainable test automation framework
- Developing and maintaining API and UI automated tests
- Improving and maintaining with a focus on test stability
- Working in a team of QA engineers, producing structured/maintainable/reusable code
- Requirements analysis and review
- Collaborating with development teams (Developers, QAs, BAs, Product Managers and DevOps)
- Creating and maintaining existing Test artifacts
- Test artifacts peer review
- Mentoring and guiding other QA's on how to write auto tests
Skills and Experiences (Must Have)
- Experience of at least 5 years in QA automation
- Experience implementing API and UI automated tests
- Experience with Python (pytest framework)
- Familiarity with QA methodologies
- Understanding of REST principles
- Good knowledge of test design techniques
- Good knowledge of bug life cycle
- Practical experience in version control systems (Git) and CI/CD
- Attention to detail and accuracy
- Enthusiasm to achieve the highest level of quality of the product
- Upper-Intermediate English, written and spoken
- A self-starter attitude (curious, motivated and resourceful), with an eagerness to learn
- Strong attention to detail and excellent organisational skills
- Process-oriented mindset and enjoys problem-solving
It would be great if you have (Not essential)
- Experience working within a fast-growing scaleup
- Paytech experience, in highly transactional systems
- Experience with MongoDB
- Postman experience
- Understanding of CI/CD principles
- Experience working across multiple time zone scaleup
What’s in it for you?
- A good, competitive salary
- A great company culture
- Flexible working: We have a fantastic communal office space in London but we encourage a healthy WFH/WFO balance. Just let us know!
- Regular company away days and social events
- Friday need-to-know drinks and snacks
- Company contributions towards your pension
- 25 days of paid annual leave (33 days including bank holidays)
- Up to 10 days of paid sick leave (including mental health days) per year
What’s it like to work at Paydock?
Paydock is entering a new phase of growth led by an experienced senior team. You’ll be part of a successful, highly motivated, and extremely collaborative team. The Paydock Values are central to everything we do and drive us to deliver better and more beautiful payment experiences to benefit our customers, our staff and the community. To really thrive at Paydock, you’ll need to believe in and be prepared to do your work in line with our values, which are:
1. Opportunity
We create and seize opportunities. Every moment, interaction, click, word, decision presents an opportunity. At Paydock we are committed to creating opportunities for customers, staff and community. This will be achieved by what we do (our product) – and how we do it (our team and culture).
2. Stewardship
We take responsibility for opportunities. Opportunity presents no value unless stewarded into a meaningful outcome. We believe that since opportunities are unique, each must be made the most of before we can call ourselves successful.
3. Mastery
We are world-leaders. In order to succeed in the above, we commit ourselves to mastering our chosen domain – payments. It is our desire that our customers benefit from our mastery. 4. BeautyWe want everything we do to be elegant. The result of mastery is always beauty. We believe that beauty in payments, once delivered, will enable our customers to craft new and powerful experiences for themselves and their donors and customers
If you think you would be a good fit for the Paydock family - then we’d love to hear from you, regardless of whether you fit the job description exactly or not. If in doubt, drop us an email; we’d be more than happy to give you some advice on your application.
Paydock is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
