At Grand Parade, QA Engineers are critical to ensure that our projects are of the highest quality. As a Quality Assurance Engineer, you will be responsible for creating and executing various tests (regression, acceptance, smoke, usability, etc). You will also be responsible to provide estimates, suggest appropriate tests for project(s), and work towards successful release.
Who we are and what do we do in Grand Parade?
We are a Polish- British software development company specializing in building advanced systems for the online sports betting industry in Europe, USA and Australia. The solutions built by Grand Parade are used by tens of millions of users per day and our customers including Coral, Betfair, Bwin, Ladbrokes and Unibet are considered as leading companies in the industry.
What challenges we are facing every day?
- Complex real- time web apps
- Interactive dashboards and scoreboards supporting thousands of requests per second
- Real- time data processing
- More than 20 million users daily
- Gigabytes of data per day
As a Senioir QA Engineer you will be responsible for:
- Design, code and execute automated test scripts
- Develop and execute software test plans
- Collaborating with the developers and product owners to ensure the user story is understood and that the tests track the desired functionality of the story
- Writing detailed test cases to drive development and testing the code against the acceptance tests
- Monitoring and tracking test coverage and recommended improvements or changes to developers
- Providing documentation of test results and develop post-test reports
How we work in Grand Parade?
In each project we use variety of different technologies. Whole frontend is real- time and developed using Websockets and JavaScript frameworks (mainly React/Redux). In addition to the arsenal of frontend technology, on the backend side we use Scala, Node.js and Python / Django with Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, DynamoDB or CouchBase to support demanding data pipeline. To ensure the efficiency of all of our solutions, we use Zabbix, Ansible and Docker. Quality is our main priority so our +30 team members QA team tests each project with automated tests using RestAssured, Selenium, socket.io, Gatling, RobotFramework in Continues Integration
In addition to the standard chill- out room with Xbox, you can always take a sit on sun lounger in the garden on the roof and wind down looking Krakow beatiful panorama or grab pizza after work. Just check out photos on our fanpage: facebook.com/GrandParadePoland
As we deal with sport industry, we are constantly organizing company contests with small prizes. Recently, during the Cheltenham Festival horse racing everyone can bet on their horses and win gifts such as AppleTV or headphones Sonos.
What do we expect?
- Experience with Selenium or similar tools, with knowledge of test- driven development
- Experience with API test automation
- Experience with mocking web services and DB
- Working experience of testing in agile methodologies
- BTS tools experience - preferably Jira
- Experience in manual web and mobile testing
- Understanding of test script creation and functional UAT practices
- Good knowledge of common testing procedures and methodologies
- Very good English language skills (spoken and written)
- Good problem solving and analytical thinking
- Demonstrable knowledge of software engineering
Desirable:
- Test automation skills, with a background of testing on web products
- Programing skills (e.g. Python, Scala, Java)
- B.S. degree in Computer Sciences, Information Technology, Engineering or equivalent
What do we offer?
We offer competitive salary and opportunity to work with amazing people (without bored managers who prefer 10-years old solutions), Lunch & Learn, internal training sessions and interesting events organized by employees (e.g. internal GP football league, FIFA, board games). Basically it looks like that:
- Fully paid private healthcare (Enel-Med)
- Fully paid Multisport pass
- Flexible working hours
- Lots of integration events & company parties
- Individual training budget
- Competitive salary
- Option to work on B2B contract
- Company competitions with cool prizes
- Brand new office in city center (+1000m2)
- Business trips to our headquarter in London
- Employee referral program (up to 5000 PLN)