QA Engineer

Location: Cape Town, WC, za

Company Description

Invictus Capital is a global leader in alternative investments and developed the first tokenized cryptocurrency index fund in 2017. Invictus has grown to a team of 40 and has continued to pioneer in the space. We have developed a world-class real-time, 24/7 investment platform supported by over 15,000 investors from 150 countries

Job Description

We have a dedicated team of quantitative financial specialists working on automated trading strategies using advanced machine learning and other data techniques. 

Invictus Capital’s engineering team is responsible for the development, testing and deployment of various software products. All our products are built using a microservices architecture design and run fully containerized in the cloud. We mainly code in Python (backend) and ReactJS (frontend). 

We are looking for an experienced QA engineer to own the testing and QA process of the engineering team. You should possess a thorough knowledge and experience of what it takes to create and implement manual and automated testing to ensure the quality of our products. You will be part of the engineering team where we all work as a full-stack developer in the Engineering team. The QA role will mainly be a development role but your focus will be on defining acceptance tests together with the product manager and being responsible for work in the UAT phase. Also, you will assist with resolution and reproduction of user software problems. 

You will be responsible for: 

● Participating in functional and technical design sessions to own the QA element 

● Quality assurance of business and functional requirements specifications

 ● Extraction of test requirements from high level business / functional specifications and workshops 

● Development and implementation of automated testing environment

 ● Analysis and development of test scenarios 

● Development of framework for creation and maintenance of test data 

● Integration, scenario, load, functional and non-functional testing (all automated) 

● Logging, owning and resolving defects 

● Test User Interface design of web based software applications 

● Test REST APIs - automated functional, load and security tests 

We are looking for an experienced engineer specialising in testing with:

 ● 3+ years of software development (Python / JavaScript preferred) 

● 3+ years of systems development, testing and with internet-based applications, UI’s and API’s

● Experience doing automated testing in cloud environments 

● Defect reporting in issue management systems (Atlassian Jira preferred) 

● Experience with testing and automation scripting using Selenium or other open source test automation tools

 ● Experience using online version control and open source continuous integration environment 

Qualifications

You should have a relevant formal qualification, or equivalent knowledge:

 ● BSc Eng in a relevant field (Electrical Engineering; Information Engineering/Systems; Network engineering; or similar) 

● BSc Comp Sci with network or ops experience; etc 

We use the following tools, frameworks, languages and technologies in the backend and front-end 

● Languages: Python, SQL, (some)Golang, JavaScript, TypeScript, ReactJs 

● Task management and version control tools: Jira, Confluence, Gitlab 

● Google Cloud technologies: Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Redis 

If you have experience / understanding of the following it will be very helpful in the job application process:

 ● An understanding of cryptocurrency/blockchain technology as we integrate all our products with this technology

 ● Experience with writing smart contracts in Solidity on the Ethereum blockchain

Additional Information

Invictus Capital celebrates and embraces diversity and is committed to building a team that represents a variety of experiences, backgrounds, and skills. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, marital status, age, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, or national origin.