Senior QA Engineer

Summary

Join Mindera's team as a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer and contribute to the quality of our backend applications. You will be responsible for planning and implementing test strategies, designing and developing test scenarios, and executing automated and manual tests. This role requires a minimum of 5 years of experience in quality assurance, expertise in C#, and a strong understanding of software development methodologies. You will work collaboratively with multiple teams, advocating for best quality practices and contributing to the development of organization-wide strategies. Mindera offers a range of benefits, including health insurance, flexible working hours, open holidays, profit distribution, and professional development opportunities.

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)

Responsibilities

• Gain a good understanding of our products and backend services developed by engineering teams you work with
• 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

Benefits

• Health Insurance, because health comes first
• Flexible working hours
• Open holidays, take the time you need for yourself
• Profit distribution for everyone
• Mindera Annual Trip, Sports, and sharing groups to connect and have fun!
• Training & conferences, create your own training plan
• Child Care vouchers
• Choose Laptop & Peripherals that best suit your needs
• Hotspot with unlimited usage (PT), for work or Netflix ;)
• We have amazing offices in Porto, Aveiro, and Coimbra if you want to physically connect with minders. Remote is also an option
• At the offices, we have a wide range of snacks to keep you fed and healthy
• Partnerships with local businesses