Senior Quality Engineer

About us: 

Luno is the crypto investment app you can rely on, enabling you to buy, store and explore crypto securely. We’re committed to putting the power of cryptocurrency in everyone's hands sensibly and responsibly.

Since 2013, we’ve helped millions of people around the world invest safely in crypto. We do this by cutting through the hype and supporting customers at every step of the way. All products and cryptocurrencies on our platform must first meet stringent legal, risk and technical security standards. We don’t do memecoins.

Transparency is key for us. Luno stores all crypto on a 1:1 basis and we have rigorous processes in place so you can be confident your investment is secure. We’re available in more than 40 countries around the world and we work closely with respective regulators in all of these markets to be fully compliant, as we believe this is the best way to help everyone, everywhere, invest safely

About the team: 

Our engineering team (>150 engineers) is split into organisations which we call Fleets. Each Fleet focuses on a core customer journey (onboarding, security, payments, support, new business, growth, and marketing, etc.). Each of these fleets contains multiple smaller teams called Pods, each of which focuses on a specific aspect of the product.

Pods will include a product owner, product designer, back-end engineers, Android, iOS, and Web developers, who each bring a unique perspective to the problem you are all contributing towards. We're agile, use scrum, continuous integration and continuous delivery, deploying to production every single day.

The role in a nutshell:

As a Senior Quality Engineer, you’ll be working closely with our Engineering Teams and Mark Debney our Engineering Operations Director to champion service and enable quality of the delivery. Working closely with fleets to help them in this journey with their unique challenges while enabling our teams to reach their maximum potential without compromising on quality..

Your mission will be:

• Help cross-functional pods providing support for testing activities - manual, automation and test processes
• Help teams implement required types of testing to have the best test coverage
• Drive and perform required types of manual and automation testing in the pods.
• Help the Engineering Managers by collating the details from test observations and coverage across pods.
• Help the teams (engineers, agile team, product team) in understanding and resolving the quality engineering issues covering defect triage, test coverage 
• Work with the Engineering Managers and Competency Leads to drive new process improvements
• Ensure that our platform performs efficiently under varying load and remains stable at all times.
• Responsible for identifying performance bottlenecks, conducting thorough load testing to ensure our products meet the highest standards of reliability and scalability.

A little about you:

• At least 5+ years of experience as a Test Engineer or similar role, with a focus on the designing and creation of manual test packs and scripts in an agile environment.
• Experience in the complete product development lifecycle preferably within a multidisciplinary team and in an environment using recognised development and testing methodologies
• Experience with defect management and agile development practices following SDLC.
• Proficiency in different types of manual and automation testing like for UI, API, Database, etc., for web and mobile apps.
• Experience in writing/maintaining UI test automation frameworks such as Playwright, Puppeteer or Cypress in JavaScript/TypeScript running in CI/CD pipelines.
• Exposure to mobile automation frameworks such as Espresso, XCUITest or Appium 
• Exposure to performance testing tools such as Jmeter or K6.
• Experience or familiarity with cloud computing (Azure/AWS).
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to think critically and creatively.
• Quality-oriented mindset with a keen attention to detail.
• Relevant certifications, such as ISTQB or CSTE, are a plus.
• Ability to work in South Africa 

Life at Luno:

• Remote but reachable work policy gives you the freedom to choose between working from home or the office.
• Plus the option to buy and sell up to 5 days leave
• Improve body and mind, with excellent private medical insurance
• Access to Learnably and our additional learning platforms for your personal and professional development
• 6 months primary care-giver leave
• Paw-ternity leave for your furry friend
• Annual Inspiration Day in addition to your annual leave which increases based on your length of service! 
• A collaborative, friendly work community, with regular social events and virtual cooking, dancing, drawing and house planting classes hosted by our Lunauts
• Free lunch and snacks
• 0 fees up to a certain amount with Luno from the day you start.*

*Offer only available on Luno Instant Buy, not Luno Exchange

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.