The Job in Short
We are looking for an experienced QA Automation Engineer to strengthen our team. As a QA Engineer, you focus on all aspects of quality, using your technical expertise skills to implement repeatable processes with the objective of painless and continuous delivery. All of that to provide products and deliverables.
Your team is responsible for a developer-focused SAAS environment. We aim for continuous delivery and synthetic testing.
Meet the Job
Your automation game is strong and you are willing to learn to become even better. In your role, you are a sounding board for your peers, you provide experience and knowledge to your team, work alongside Developers and QA Engineers to understand and adopt best practices in test automation.
You are a clear communicator and can explain technical topics, issues and questions to various audiences clearly and concisely. You are confident to express your opinions and thoughts even if you are in the minority. You are unafraid to ask questions and flag the issues and challenge your team.
How about you?
You know what motivates your peers and like to share the vision while driving your QA goals in an iterative and agile way. You understand functional and non-functional aspects of testing and you can shine on with hands-on automation testing (writing scripts, implementing test suites, building pipelines) as well as manual testing. You apply critical thinking and have a great attention to details. You also understand the importance of exploratory testing and are creative in defining edge and corner cases.
What you need to succeed:
- A deep-seated passion for QA and automation;
- Hands-on experience in test automation (Java or JavaScript/TypeScript), API testing, and frontend testing;
- Strong professional experience testing API endpoints using REST Assured and Postman;
- Proficiency with working with Docker and k8s;
- Strong experience and understanding of levering Jenkins or GitHub Actions for CI/CD;
- A deep-seated passion in understanding non-functional requirements and delivering systems that are resilient, performant and scalable;
- First-hand experience with working with git and Atlassian (Jira, Confluence, Stash or similar);
- A rich experience in methodologies such as Domain-Driven Design and Lean Architecture;
- A desire to stay up to date about new technologies and eager to continuously improve;
- Excellent interpersonal skills, able to bring a vision across and get commitment to move everyone along;
- Natural drive to communicate with others to bring the common work processes to a higher level.
Nice to have:
- Java programming experience;
- Experience in testing frameworks, SDKs, toolkits, and lower-level software constructs;
- Technical devops skills and experience - working with shell/bash scripting.
The Job at Backbase
- As a QA Automation Engineer, you play a key role in improving and innovating our QA automation processes to support the delivery of our product, as we work towards Continuous Delivery;
- You support your peers in the QA Chapter, through workshops, documentation, and pair programming;
- You continually drive innovation, creating a vision for automation across all the products and finding solutions to QA automation challenges that scale well and are sustainable;
- You are one of the key drivers for the QA innovation backlog and planning, and set objectives for the QA Chapter to Shift-Left and work towards higher quality and independent releases;
- As we are a scaled Agile product organization, we want to establish tight feedback loops in every process. For you that means you need to hone your personal leadership skills continually.
What We Do
Backbase is a fast growing fintech software provider that empowers financial institutions to accelerate their digital transformation and effectively compete in a digital-first world. We are the creators of the Backbase Omni-Channel Banking Platform, a state-of-the-art digital banking software solution that unifies data and functionality from traditional core systems and new fintech players into a seamless digital customer experience. We give financials the speed and flexibility to create and manage seamless customer experiences across any device, and deliver measurable business results. We believe that superior digital experiences are essential to stay relevant, and our software enables financials to rapidly grow their digital business. More than 120 financials around the world have standardized on the Backbase omni-channel banking platform to streamline their digital sales and self-service operations across all digital touchpoints. Our customer base includes ABN AMRO, Bank ABC, Barclays, BPI, CheBanca!, Citizens Lightstream, Credit Suisse, Fidelity, HDFC, IDFC, KeyBank, Ila Bank, Me Bank, Navy Federal, PostFinance, RBC, RBS, Standard Bank, Societe Generale, Truist, U Bank and Westpac.
Industry analysts Celent, Gartner, Forrester and Ovum recognize Backbase as an industry leader in terms of omni-channel banking platform capabilities, and award the company high marks for its deep focus on customer experience management and unparalleled speed of implementation. Forrester named us a leader in the Forrester Wave for Omni-Channel Banking and Ovum nominates Backbase as the market leading provider of next-generation digital channel banking platforms.
Backbase was founded in 2003, is privately funded, with headquarters in Amsterdam (HQ Global) and Atlanta (HQ Americas) and regional operations in Boisse, Cardiff, Dubai, Kraków, Mexico City, New York, Toronto, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo.