Job Summary: 

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