Senior Test Automation Engineer

About us

At RavenPack, we are at the forefront of developing the next generation of generative AI tools for the finance industry and beyond. With 20 years of experience as a leading big data analytics provider for financial services, we empower our clients—including some of the world's most successful hedge funds, banks, and asset managers—to enhance returns, reduce risk, and increase efficiency by integrating public information into their models and workflows. Building on this expertise, we are launching a new suite of GenAI and SaaS services, designed specifically for financial professionals.

Join a Company that is Powering the Future of Finance with AI

RavenPack has been recognized as the Best Alternative Data Provider by WatersTechnology and has been included in this year’s Top 100 Next Unicorns by Viva Technology. We have recently launched Bigdata.com, a next-generation platform aimed at transforming financial decision-making.

About the Role

RavenPack is seeking an experienced Senior Test Automation Engineer, with proven experience working in fast moving, high-performance development squads, to support the quality of our bigdata.com product. You will have been previously involved in designing and developing test strategies and test cases. Furthermore, you have all the technical skills for implementing and maintaining automated test suites running in CI pipelines, a proven track record in software automation projects, the ability to understand complex software solutions and you are enthusiastic about helping to train others to write automated tests.

This position is ideal for a skilled, hands-on, self-motivated and enthusiastic Test Automation Engineer, who will thrive in an exciting high-paced environment with cross-functional squads; building, deploying and iterating rapidly on a new product at the centre of the AI technology revolution.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with or in a cross-functional squad in a rapid, iterative, highly responsive, positive, motivational, product-focused environment.
• Be self-motivated with excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, and interpersonal skills and have a desire to get things done.
• Contribute to the existing test automation strategy and suggestions to support continuous improvements.
• Collaborate on quality assurance tasks on a daily basis.
• Engage in training for software engineers to expand their existing testing and quality assurance knowledge.
• Maintain an outcome-oriented perspective in close collaboration with your Test Lead, Technical Lead and Product Manager, helping squads to deliver and iterate on usable user workflows tip-to-tail.
• Support clean, efficient, scalable and maintainable solutions, including robust testing and performance optimisation.
• Keep up to date with advancements in testing approaches for software engineering, machine learning and AI, to recommend and incorporate leading technologies and practices into the organisation.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of test automation experience with a focus on supporting real-world, scalable commercial solutions.
• Proficiency in Python and knowledge in scripting languages.
• Strong experience in test automation frameworks.
• Experience testing back-end interfaces and UI test automation in TypeScript.
• Exposure to all Software Development Life Cycle stages; from requirements gathering, designing test plans, integration testing, functional and regression testing, debugging issues, and supporting of production.
• Ability to set priorities and multitask in a fast-paced environment.
• Database knowledge: SQL, NoSQL.
• Necessary skills to perform root cause analysis when defects occur.
• BSc/BA in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams and convey complex ideas clearly in English, both verbally and in writing.
• Enthusiasm for ongoing learning and a willingness to cross-skill & expand yours and your squads skills through the stack.

Desirable:

• Experience with AWS or equivalent.

• Experience with querying document-oriented & search databases like Elasticsearch
• Experience of a broad range of testing types, including performance testing, SAST, DAST, accessibility etc.
• Experience maintaining fast-running test suites in a trunk-based continuous deployment software lifecycle with feature flags.
• Knowledge of CI/CD orchestration tools
• Previous experience as a software developer or architect.
• Financial industry experience.
• Familiarity using LLM´s to accelerate day to day testing.

What's in it for you?

• International Culture: With its headquarters in Marbella, Spain, and presence in Madrid, New York and London, RavenPack takes pride in being a truly diverse global organization.

• Best in Class: You will work with top engineers with experience using various test frameworks & tools to support ReactJS, Python, Java and Lisp, on cutting-edge, innovative technology.

• Competitive Salary: In RavenPack, we believe that your time and experience needs to be fairly rewarded.

• Continuous learning: We provide the support needed to grow within the team.

• Innovation: Innovation is the key to our success, so we encourage you to speak up and tell us about your vision.

• Hybrid work arrangement

• Shuttle bus: From Malaga, Fuengirola, La Riviera, and Estepona is available for free from the company.

• Diversity is in our DNA! You will work in an international environment (over 29 nationalities and 24 languages spoken!)