We are seeking a Senior Test Engineer to join our QA Team at Yieldstreet. As a member of this team you will be responsible for contributing to the quality-driven culture of the company, working closely with developers and other testers to streamline the testing processes, maintain our automated test suites and deliver high quality products on a daily basis.
Key Responsibilities:
Understand product/feature requirements and question them constructively from a QA perspective
Perform exploratory testing on systems and features
Given feature requirements, communicate with Product team to design test cases to adequately test that feature in a way that is representative of real use cases
Maintain our test frameworks, adding new functionality and resolving issues
Develop stable tests within our test frameworks with scalability and maintainable in mind
Test at both end-to-end (web and mobile) and integration level (REST, GraphQL)
Perform manual and automated testing as required
Using critical thinking and problem solving skills, analyze reasons for failures, carry out root cause analysis and work collaboratively with developers to resolve issues
Proactively communicate with leads, architects and devs regarding upcoming features and how they should be tested, even suggesting ways to make solutions less bug prone.
Clearly report and follow up on issues, communicate the level of urgency of each issue clearly to developers, persistently chase resolutions and escalate when needed.
Form productive relationships within the QA team and product teams, ensuring ongoing communication and collaboration
Contribute to the continuous improvement of our processes and frameworks
Stay up to date with the emerging technologies and approaches in test engineering
Qualifications and Requirements
Must have:
Proven experience as a Test Engineer, with a minimum of 5 years experience in a similar role
Strong proficiency with Cypress or another web automation framework
Strong proficiency with Javascript
Experience with testing web applications, API testing
Familiarity with Git
Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
Strong communication and team working skills
Nice to have:
Degree in Computer Science, or a related field
Experience working with object oriented languages such as Java or C#
Experience working with Typescript
Experience testing mobile applications (both manual and automated)
Experience with testing asynchronous service oriented architectures
Experience with CI/CD pipelines
What’s in it for you:
Competitive compensation packages including equity