Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Job Title: Senior QA Engineer

Location: Hybrid. Valencia, Spain

We are Datamaran, a fast-paced, energetic, and high-growth technology company.

Datamaran is the only software analytics platform in the world that identifies and monitors external risks, including ESG. Trusted by blue-chip companies and top-tier partners, it brings a data-driven business process for external risk and materiality analysis. In-house - at any time. At Datamaran our mission is to positively impact the world by helping corporations to have a robust sustainability strategy with our SaaS platform.

Literally, the software helps our clients make the world a better place with ESG strategy decision-making! Now, we need you to accelerate this transformation.

We recognize that people of different backgrounds widen our perspective, so we’re committed to diversity, equality, and inclusion in everything we do. Datamaran is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. As such, all applications received will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, or age.

Our eclectic team of talented individuals represents over 25 nationalities, with 50% of our leaders being female. Datamaran is a fully digital and distributed company with over 100 global staff members. It has offices in London, Valencia, New York, and now Leeuwarden in the Netherlands.

Such a mix makes Datamaran a unique, collaborative, and ambitious workplace.

Job Overview:

Our growing and dynamic engineering team is looking for an energetic Senior QA Engineer to join one of our cross-functional product teams. The ideal candidate will bring a substantial depth of knowledge in Test Automation technologies, play a significant role in shaping the user experience and function of our web applications, and not shy away from getting hands-on in Manual testing and Performance testing as needed. She/he will also actively contribute to all stages of Datamaran User-Centric product development testing.

In this integral position, we’ll look to you not only for your comprehensive technical knowledge in Test Automation but also for your contribution to client use cases through brainstorming, problem-solving, and alignment sessions with the broader team. Your experience will be crucial in guiding more junior engineers on your team, ensuring we build and deliver truly user-centric and innovative products.

• Automate tests and enhance the existing Datamaran E2E Test framework.
• Work closely with developers in the Scrum team members to test new features Manually and automate the tests.
• Develop performance tests for scalable applications.
• Mentor testers on Test Automation best practices and industry-standard engineering practices.
• Build and Automate test cases - Collaborate on the design and architecture of the automation framework.
• Stay informed of the latest industry standards and technologies, actively applying these to improve our products.
• Contribute to product discovery phases, and bring invaluable insights regarding user needs and potential solutions.
• Review product specifications and write the test case, develop test plans for assigned areas in the Engineering team for Product features

A thousand feet views of our tech stack

• For Automation, we are using playwright as a framework
• The language being used in the automation framework is javascript
• Our web application is built on node.js, javascript, and vue.js 
• Our data stores include MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Elastic search
• Our server-side and data pipelines are built in Python and FastAPI
• Everything is hosted on AWS, on EC2, or in lambda functions
  

Key Skills/Requirements:

• Over 5 years of professional QA experience across several projects, focusing on JavaScript and Playwright.
• Understanding of cross-browser testing
• Experienced building and contributing to an automation framework development
• Experience with source control systems like Git is required.
• Self-driven, detail-oriented, with a strong commitment to quality.
• Excellent communication skills in English, both written and verbal.
• Leadership experience, including the capacity to inspire and motivate team members in a distributed team
• Prior experience working in an agile environment with empowered teams
• Experience in API testing using Postman or any other tool like Jmeter.

Bonus points

• Experience in performance tools like Jmeter
• Experience in Databases, especially in PostgreSQL.

If you are passionate about Quality Assurance and agile methodologies and want to be part of a close-knit agile team, we would love to hear from you!

• A dynamic and international work environment
• Hybrid working with flexible working hours
• Employee-centric office located in the center of Valencia
• Learning and Development path
• Competitive compensation based on experience
• 22 days of annual leave + Bank Holidays
• Private Health Insurance programme
• Pension scheme
• Gym allowance
• Subsidised lunch + Free snacks in the office, with CSO (Chief Snack Officer!)
• Datamaran is an Equal opportunity employer

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In this role, not only will you help to grow our business but also grow yourself. At Datamaran we believe in personal development. Once with us there are multiple options to grow internally. 

This is your path to success.

Interested candidates, please submit your applications!

*A kind note to recruiters: thank you for your potential interest but we are currently not looking to work with any external staffing agencies*