QA Engineer

The Role

• Actively contribute to the development of a unique financial product within a scale‑up environment by engaging in product‑related tasks, ensuring adherence to automation best practices, and providing feedback and suggestions to drive innovation.
• Collaborate with the Product Manager, developers, and QA Engineers from other squads to clarify requirements, with a particular focus on testability, consistency, and completeness, as well as streamlining existing business processes.
• Champion the use of AI tools to improve testing efficiency, including using coding assistants for faster script development and AI tools for synthetic data generation.
• Plan, design, and execute QA tasks according to agreed timelines.
• Participate in team planning and estimation of tasks.
• Contribute to the creation of test documentation.
• Play a significant role in expanding automated test codebases while aiming to reduce the reliance on manual testing.
• Conduct various types of testing, such as smoke, regression, and functional testing, to maintain a high level of quality.
• Assist other QA engineers in the automation process.

About You

Technical Experience

• 4+ years of professional experience as a QA Automation Engineer, with expertise in Java/Kotlin programming languages.
• Hands‑on experience utilizing AI tools to boost productivity in code writing, debugging, and test case generation.
• Strong understanding of Object‑Oriented Programming (OOP) principles.
• Proficient in web technologies including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, with a solid grasp of web architecture and its functioning.
• Thorough understanding of API testing concepts, encompassing API methods, HTTP methods, response codes, request and response headers, and payload formats like JSON and XML.
• Proficient in utilizing tools such as RestAssured, Feign, Swagger, and Postman for API testing.
• Hands‑on experience in writing UI tests using Selenium (Selenide) or Playwright.
• Familiarity with testing frameworks like TestNG and JUnit, capable of utilising these frameworks to effectively organise and execute automated tests.
• Proficient in SQL and database concepts, able to write queries to retrieve data and perform data verification.
• Experience with monitoring and debugging applications using tools like Sentry and Elasticsearch.
• Understanding of performance testing, including concepts such as load testing, stress testing, and endurance testing, and proficient in testing API performance using tools like JMeter or Gatling.

Personal Characteristics

• Comfortable taking the lead when required.
• Organised, structured and meticulous, with great time‑management skills.
• Must be eager to learn and passionate about technology; a strong sense of personal responsibility and a desire for continuous improvement.
• Independent and critical thinker who can identify issues and challenges and build logical steps to overcome them.
• Must be an effective collaborator and confident working as part of a small team building a business.
• Open to giving and receiving feedback as part of personal and professional development.
• Must possess strong interpersonal communication skills for obligations with community; must articulate thoughts clearly both in writing and verbally.

What’s in it for you?

• Private healthcare plan through Vitality (subject to eligibility); includes benefits such as 50% off premium gym memberships and access to exclusive rewards programmes.
• Support for mental health and wellbeing through employee assistance programme.
• 25 days of annual leave each year.
• Regular team socials to help you switch off from work and meet colleagues.
• A welcoming, dog‑friendly London office with breakout spaces and silent booths.
• 3% employer pension contribution as standard, with additional contributions available via salary sacrifice.
• Various family‑friendly policies, support toward professional qualifications, electric‑car schemes, and more.

Our mission at Y TREE is to build diversity in our teams; diversity of thought, culture, backgrounds and perspectives. Please come as you are and let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments we can make to support you in your application process. Additionally, if you don’t feel you meet 100% of the requirements please apply anyway if you feel you can demonstrate your suitability to the role. Please note that sponsorship is not available for this role.

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