Senior QA Engineer

At Mindera, we are passionate about creating a fantastic team and are seeking a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to join us. As a Quality Assurance Engineer, you will uphold high standards throughout the development process and ensure the quality of our backend applications written in C#.

You will play a critical role in planning and implementing test strategies, designing and developing test scenarios, and executing automated and manual tests. Your attention to detail and strong problem-solving skills will help identify and resolve issues to deliver high-quality software solutions.

We are looking for someone who is experienced in backend testing, has a strong understanding of C#, and is familiar with software development methodologies and best practices.

Key Responsibilities:

• Gain a good understanding of our products and backend services developed by engineering teams you work with. All our backend teams will give you the opportunity to work with a variety of technologies and patterns. At our core we have C# as our preferred language for backend services.
• Help grow the community of excellence across our backend product development teams by advocating and influencing the best quality practices.
• Work with multiple teams within your area to define quality outcomes and a roadmap to achieve them.
• Be able to write high quality code to create or enhance test frameworks.
• Actively consider key non-functional requirements for your area of work.
• Driving a self-organized agile team; accountable for your team’s delivery while promoting collaboration and transparency with stakeholders.
• Work centrally with the QA team to develop organization wide strategy.
• Initiate and develop new tech driven initiatives to improve quality

Key Requirements:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in quality assurance.
• Have had experience in organizations with a shift-left approach to quality.
• Very high energy and enthusiasm, with a passion for delivering awesome solutions.
• Have in-depth experience of planning, executing and validating tests for cloud hosted microservices APIs.
• Possess excellent engineering skills in C# and significant knowledge of automated test approaches and tooling.
• You have an excellent understanding and real-life experience of using TDD.
• Have a good understanding of CI/CD pipelines and managing tests within them.
• Have practical experience with GitHub Actions and Team City.
• Have a good understanding of contract-based testing.
• Understand cloud-based microservices architecture (e.g. AWS) and associated challenges.
• Have familiarity with containerization, databases, and observability tools.
• Have familiarity with Terraform.
• Have familiarity with monitoring and observability tooling like NewRelic or Grafana.
• Have strong Agile experience with a good understanding of how Quality and Agile work together.
• Are a problem-solver who can apply their skills to technical issues.
• Are a pragmatic self-starter with a keen interest in technology.
• Know what good looks like, and how to get there - you are an experienced test expert who values the broad range of testing activities that together ensure quality in the product.
• Excellent interpersonal, relationship building, coaching, and influencing skills.
• Have the right attitude to challenge status quo and improve situation (continuous improvement and critical mind)