Senior QA Engineer (m/f/d)

Company Description

At The Stepstone Group, we help everyone get the job that best fits their life. Whether it is the next step in their career, or a job to pay the bills - we exist to match lifestyles with livelihoods.  

We play our part by giving people everything they need to find the right job for them in that moment; making jobs work for more people, whatever they do, and however they choose to do it. 

This role can be based in Düsseldorf or London.

We also have a hybrid approach! Work from home 2 days and 3 days at the office!

Equal opportunities are important to us. We believe that diversity and inclusion at the StepStone Group is critical to our success as a global company, so we want to recruit, develop, and keep the best talent on the market. We encourage applications from everyone, regardless of your background, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, ethnicity, belief, age, family or parental status, and any other characteristic. If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application or interviewing, please let us know. 

Job Description

We are looking for a Senior QA Engineer with experience of working closely with multiple teams to ensure quality throughout the whole software development cycle. Our expectations are proven experience in Exploratory Testing, automation experience, and time and attention management between multiple projects. 

This role would suit someone who has a strong testing background, is able to guide and support others and lead the team by example with best testing practices. You are able to think about the bigger picture across multiple projects to identify potential issues, along with helping with refinement of requirements, and making informed judgement calls on the scope of testing required. 

What will this role look like on a day-to-day basis?

• There is the opportunity to help the developers to create good quality automated acceptance tests to ensure the product is protected into the future 
• You will also be doing a lot of manual exploratory testing  
• You will work hard to eliminate bugs before they are ever created – by contributing very actively in the planning stages  
• Ensure that the User Stories accepted into the sprints have complete acceptance criteria, are testable, and indeed that any important requirements are not forgotten (e.g. error scenarios, security, and non-functional requirements) 
• You will have the opportunity to get involved in programming tasks if you so choose, or to help out with the business analysis 
• Your role is to bring testing experience to the team and to help other team members write good quality automated tests 

Qualifications

Some skills you might have:

• Understanding of data engineering (including SQL, Python, Data Warehousing, ETL, Facts and Dimensions),
• Experience working on an Agile / Scrum team  
• Experience analysing user stories for their testing requirements both functional and non-functional  
• Experience contributing to the automated regression tests   
• Ability to isolate causes for hard to reproduce bugs  
• Proactive in checking, understanding and planning work, requires minimal guidance  
• Ability to influence and persuade other team members  
• Self-starter – does not wait for tasks or tickets but always seeks to contribute to the Agile team in any way possible, and seeks to improve own skills to increase contribution  

Desirable but not required: 

• Experience hand crafting automated regression tests using a programming language (not record / playback)  
• Experience contributing to the test strategy 
• Experience developing and extending an automation test harness 
• Experience using scripting or programming languages 
• Experience in C#, Java, TypeScript, SQL, Playwright, Selenium, Git, TeamCity, Octopus, Bamboo, Python, Redshift, Power BI 
• Experience in creating automated test frameworks

Additional Information

Benefits and Rewards:

• Your start at StepStone: We want you to feel comfortable right from the get-go and you can begin networking immediately. That's why we always start with an onboarding event lasting several days, during which you get to know your new colleagues, our products and our culture. After that, the onboarding continues in your department - with several weeks of individual training. 
• We support you: We want you to become part of the StepStone family as quickly as possible! That is why we will support you with all the formalities during the visa process.
• Your further development: We are growing - and of course we want you to grow with us. We will support you with targeted training that will help you develop both personally and professionally. 
• Big player with start-up flair: Even though we've grown quite a bit, we haven't lost our laidback attitude from the early days. In concrete terms, this means that we are on a first-name basis, we have short communication channels, flat hierarchies and super helpful colleagues. 
• Social Days: Talk is silver, action is golden - which is exactly why all our employees have 2 Social Days a year. These can be used flexibly for social and sustainable commitment. And the best thing about it: you don't have to take any holidays. 
• Holidays: While we're on the subject of holidays ... We offer 30 days of paid leave per year plus one customary day. And we always have Christmas and New Year's Eve off. 
• Our location? At the Medienhafen! For you that means we're easy to reach - whether by car, train or bike. By the way: We sponsor 50% of your parking space or job ticket. 
• Job-bike: And we also have good news for all cyclists: with our Job-bike offer, we support you in getting to the office quickly and sustainably. 
• Mobile Office: This is also possible with us! As a general rule, we offer two days of remote working per week. Feel free to ask directly during the interview to find out what the policy is for your role. 
• Are you into fitness? Great! Whether it's in our own fitness studio, playing beach volleyball or running, you can keep fit with our wide range of sporting activities. 
• Fancy a coffee? Then take a look at our in-house baristas. Whether Caramello, Cortado or Flat White lactose-free - everything is brewed fresh and free of charge. Speaking of fresh, of course, we also serve fresh fruit every day. 
• Our in-house post office: Standing in line isn't your thing? Then simply have your parcels delivered to the office. 
• Even more benefits: Christmas party, summer party, team events, incentive trips, subsidization on our company pension scheme and great offers at wholesale rates (e.g. for mobile phone contracts, Sixt and hotel bookings with HRS) - our list is long. There's bound to be something for you too!