QA Automation Engineer [CLOSED]

Are you an experienced QA automation engineer wanting to take their career to next level?

In that case - read on as we’re looking for someone with strong English.

About Us

Appy Ventures builds tech businesses with Entrepreneurs. We basically accelerate ideas and help launch successful businesses. This opportunity is for one of our companies (rota.com - B2B Saas platform for people-driven organisations wanting to manage their workforce in a smarter way). They have a good team in place with 6 remote Developers, 2 lead developers and 2 Product Managers.

Who are we looking for?

You are a pragmatic, innovative and self-motivated professional software tester. You have a natural optimism and believe that awesome technology can change the world. Ready to successfully lead a greenfield project in automated testing with a real passion for both manual and automated testing.

What will you be doing?

• Work closely with the Head of Engineering to lead the development of our automated testing environment
• Ensuring new functions and features in our core platform and apps are safely tested and shipped to the highest standard
• Driving the quality assurance of each products new functionality and features, ensuring best practices are followed
• Collaborating with QA analysts, Developers, Product Managers, UX Research & Designers and to identify and document success criteria along with test scenarios
• Finding and reporting issues in a clear and accurate manner
• Provide feedback and steps to recreate issues back to developers
• Run bug reviews
• Calling out bottlenecks and blockers for testing to ensure that mitigation is effectively managed

Your Skills and Experience

• 3+ years of QA manual and automated testing experience across multiple products
• Experience using JIRA
• Experience in front-end and API testing
• A good understanding of cloud computing such as AWS
• Familiarity with VCS, preferably Git
• Commercial awareness and understands the business value of solving our user’s problems
• Finding ways to improve our testing capabilities continuously
• Comfortable with flexible and changing priorities
• A highly collaborative, visible and inclusive approach
• Solid skill and style in verbal and written communications
• Preferred, but not essential, experience working with React/JavaScript

What systems will you be using?

You will be working across iOS, Android and web platforms. Selenium will likely be your most favoured tool. The engineering team will be using Javascript, Node.js and React and knowledge of these is beneficial to enable you to ensure our product is tested to the highest level.

Benefits

Full-time role with 24 days holidays, good pay and potential for bonus based on business success. A laptop is negotiable and we are keen to have at least annual meet-ups (COVID dependant!). We’ll be looking to grow the team further so opportunity to bring in some of your friends/ contacts.

More about Rota

Rota is now a multinational platform unifying innovation, technology and community, bringing together employers (Partners) and workers (Members), for one common goal, to create a “better way to work”. Our people-first approach keeps our goal clear, pay our Members more and charge our Partners less, without compromising on service or quality on either side. But we didn’t stop there, we built our solution in a way that would allow us to support all businesses, large, small and anywhere in between. Additionally, Rota also has an Enterprise and App technology solution to seamlessly improve an organization's ability to manage their internal teams, casual worker pools and agency suppliers in one place.

Our vision of a “better way to work” doesn’t stop with us, it is about leading positive change and enabling others to follow suit, and it is for this reason that we also offer our platform as a stand-alone, internal software solution.

Apply now

To apply, please use the apply button and fill out the form provided.

Position can start immediately and we look forward to welcoming you to the team.