QA Engineer

Who we are: Founded in Lyon, FR in 2015, DataGalaxy is the industry's first Data Knowledge Catalog helping organizations understand how their entire business runs on data. Our data management platform is dedicated to providing user-friendly metadata mapping, management, and knowledge sharing to support organizational data governance and literacy.

DataGalaxy’s Data Knowledge Catalog helps business users accelerate processes, reduce costs, and ensure regulatory compliance by providing an all-in-one data management and data governance platform. Our Data Catalog includes an API to ease pre-existing data integration, AI services to automate data classification, and data lineage tracking to visualize data’s entire lifecycle journey.

Our mission: To remain at the forefront of revolutionizing the modern business data catalog by empowering data professionals and business users through increasing data knowledge and providing an all-inclusive understanding of how businesses run on data. We’re passionate about helping organizations facilitate rich collaboration, manage data as an asset, and derive powerful, data-driven decision-making.

Our values: Be intentional. Be clear. Be bold. Be humble. Are you interested in joining an organization that values teamwork, ambition, enthusiasm, and collaboration? Each DataGalaxian brings unique knowledge, skills, and points of view that help us create a truly well-rounded crew! We encourage unique ideas, inventive thinking, and independent perspectives so that we can achieve out-of-this-world results together!

Who we’re looking for:
We’re hiring someone who is:

💫 Ready to join a growing team
💫 Passionate about data
💫 Up-to-date with the latest industry news and developments
💫 Organized, autonomous, and a team player!

As a Software Engineer in Test / QA Engineer at DataGalaxy, you will play a critical role in ensuring the quality and efficiency of our Data Catalog platform.

On a daily basis, your role will be to :

• Be the dedicated QA point of contact for the team, fully integrated within the development cycle.
• When not actively involved with team testing, focus on automation efforts, covering around 70-80% of your time.
• Ensure the implementation of automated testing strategies using Cypress or Playwright, while collaborating with the development team to create testing frameworks from scratch.
• Work with the continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipeline, ensuring seamless integration of automated testing (we use Azure DevOps for delivery automation).
• Drive and apply good practices for end-to-end testing, unit testing, and integration testing across projects.
• Write and maintain technical documentation related to testing processes and tools.
• Collaborate with a fully remote team, engaging in regular communication and supporting the Agile process.

Profile: You're the ideal person if:

• You have 3 to 5 years of experience in QA, automation testing, and have worked closely with Cypress or Playwright.
• You have experience building automated testing frameworks from the ground up.
• You are familiar with end-to-end testing practices, unit testing, and integration testing.
• You have experience integrating automated testing into delivery pipelines (experience with Azure DevOps is a plus).
• You have a strong understanding of Agile methodologies and have worked in an Agile team environment.
• You are open to fully remote working and are proactive in collaborating with a distributed team.

Nice to have:

• Understanding of container development and architectures such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with testing practices for browser extensions or monorepo environments.

What can you expect:

• Offices in the heart of Lyon and Paris, 10-15 minutes from the train stations
• Flexible working hours ("forfait jour")
• A real opportunity to join a French start-up that is a pioneer in its market
• A chance to create your own career path with autonomy in multiple projects
• An attractive remuneration according to your performance and your potential
• Remote work at will & 2.50€ net / day
• Health insurance Apicil
• Meal vouchers (Swile card of 9€/day)
• Public transport 50% reimbursement
• Daily coffee and snacks
• Quarterly team events and seminars