QA Engineer London, England
Job description
QA Engineer
Location: We have an office in London and this position can be based in the office or hybrid remote, attending the office once a week (subject to your existing right to work within the jurisdiction).
About OpenFin
OpenFin is a high-growth enterprise productivity tech company backed by the world's largest banks and most respected FinTech VCs, including J.P. Morgan, Barclays, HSBC, Wells Fargo, SC Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, DRW, Nyca Partners, and Pivot Investment Partners. OpenFin modernises and democratises app development and distribution in the finance space. We provide a secure OS that brings a fast and intuitive app experience to the financial desktop. Built on Google's Chromium, OpenFin combines native experience, data sharing, lightning-fast distribution, and robust security with an agile web development and deployment model to accelerate digital transformation and innovation. Within finance, the number of firms utilising OpenFin technology has grown from 2,400 to 3,800 since the launch of Workspace in May 2021. Having recently closed our Series D funding, we are paving the way for exciting times ahead!
About the Role
We are hiring for a Quality Assurance Engineer to join our global QA team! Our ideal candidate will have a technical expertise and QA 'know-how' to fulfill OpenFin's high commitment to quality. In addition, you should be a reliable self-starter, that is solutions-oriented with a Quality-first mindset. As a member of the team, you'll partner with our engineers to both build and maintain a testing suite that ensures stability, durability, and efficiency across all of our products. In this role, you will have the ability to influence decisions and drive the forward direction of OpenFin's Quality Assurance.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with Engineers to review new application features and devise appropriate automated or manual testing strategies prior to development
- Build upon and extend our quality test infrastructure across our product offerings including front-end, back-end, API and integration layers
- Develop and maintain manual and automated test cases for OpenFin software
- Contribute to a quality engineering practice that thrives in finding problems before our users do, along with finding ways to both innovate and break systems
- Form cross-functional partnerships with engineers and the Product team to identify production quality solutions to improve our scalability and resilience
- Test and approve release candidates for all our products
- Establish environments that most closely replicate an OpenFin clients internal setup
What We're Looking For
- 3-5 years experience focused on quality assurance for highly critical consumer driven platforms
- Confident command of tools such as Jest, Typescript, Selenium and other best in class testing frameworks.
- Excellent knowledge in building and maintaining automated test harnesses
- Experience with both Windows & Mac desktop applications and web front-end testing
- Prior exposure to building scalable testing infrastructure for web based applications
- Comfortable transforming quality assurance teams towards automation
- A passion for browser, web technologies, and desktop compiled languages
- Demonstrated ability to adaptable and resourceful and re-prioritize tasks as necessary, in a shifting environment
- Strong analytical thinking and high attention to detail
- Excellent oral and written communication skills with agile ability to influence peers
What We're Offering
Benefits -
- Time to Rejuvenate - 25 days of paid time off, in addition to 8 paid holidays each calendar year
- Time to Recuperate - 40 hours of sick time each calendar year
- Medical Insurance - A group medical insurance plan with Vitality which includes a personal health fund, medical/dental treatment, mental health and advanced cancer coverage
- Parental Leave and Workplace Nursery Benefit
- Short and Long Term Disability
- Life Insurance
- Pension
- Stock Options
Additional Perks -
- Access to the Vitality GP App - Schedule virtual GP consultations and receive referrals
- Vitality Plus Benefits - 50% off select gym memberships, 50% off running shoes and bikes, free 30-minute health checks, Apple Watch discounts, etc.
- Unlimited Coffee, Tea, Snacks, and Beer on Tap
Life at OpenFin
At OpenFin, our mission is to stay on the cutting edge of web technologies and to enable our customers to do the same. We pride ourselves on our friendly, diverse, understanding and supportive culture. Our goal is to create a space where employees can learn and innovate, and overall, have a good time doing it. We value and appreciate that our employees have a wide set of interests and experiences. Getting to know each other and forming relationships is important, which is why we regularly host offsite events, happy hours and virtual social hours, in addition to having a variety of Employee Resource Groups to participate in. Our environment is conducive to a productive and enjoyable learning experience - aligned together, moving fast and working to create compelling solutions for our clients.
- Voted "Best Solution for Workflow Automation" at the Trading Tech Insight Awards (2023)
- Voted "Top 50 Best Startups to Work For in the US & in NY" by BuiltIn (2023)
- Voted "Best FinTech Company CEO" at the FinTech Breakthrough Awards (2023)
- Voted "Most Influential Financial Technology Firm" by Harrington Starr (2023)
- Voted "Best Workplace for Technologists" in the Top 1% Awards by Harrington Starr (2022)
- Voted "FinTech of the Year" at the US FinTech Awards (2022)
- Voted "FinTech Innovation of the Year" by Financial News (2022)
- Voted "Best Workplace for Change & Transformation" by Harrington Starr (2021)
- Voted "FinTech of the Year" by TradeTech (2020)
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