QA Automation Engineer

Description

The stuff you care about At the heart of their platform, they track performance marketing data and build a number of solutions to turn this data into useful information for their customers.They work with a LOT of data, generating over a billion events across the infrastructure daily.They aim to make as much of this data available in realtime as possible, which is no mean feat at this scale!Their platform is APIled and there is no trickery done behind the scenes customers have access to all of their data all of the time.They run automated frameworks in Ruby, using Selenium Webdriver for the UI tests.Primarily, they do their work on Macbooks with a RedHat virtual machine test environment.You can expect to be supported in your passion for Testing with the opportunities and time to branch out into specialisms such as Load, Performance and Security testing. Your opinions and input are always valued.The development teams are multidisciplinary with engineers, QA, and analysts working together using Agile principles. Each team is independently organised, deciding their own workflow for solving the problems presented to them. They use tribes to share knowledge and ideas across the teams, and to make teamspanning decisions such as coding standards.What were looking for The culture and work environment are very important to our client. Above all else they value people with a positive attitude and a good work ethic. They love selfmotivation and a passion for knowledge, as well as those who put their team above themselves.This is a senior role so demonstrable experience of good software engineering is essential.We are looking for a passionate Tester from a technical background who has experience in, or is willing to learn, manual and automated API/Frontend testing as part of an Agile Scrum team.We encourage a mindset of quality and doing the right thing; ego has no place here.Collaboration is the foundation of the culture. The ability to communicate in a concise and focused way, really listen to others, and practice patience are all excellent traits to have.We want to help our people develop themselves professionally and personally. The desire to mentor and support those that are working towards obtaining all the above qualities helps us achieve that.