Staff Quality Engineer

Summary

Join Pleo as their first Staff Quality Engineer and help scale their software quality efforts. You will embed within product teams, collaborating on risk mitigation, tooling and automation, process improvement, and quality advocacy. This role requires extensive testing experience (frontend and backend), proficiency with testing tools and frameworks, and a proactive approach to problem-solving. Pleo offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits including health insurance, paid time off, remote work options, and professional development opportunities. As a founding member, you will play a critical role in shaping the future of quality engineering at Pleo.

Requirements

• Have extensive knowledge and experience from testing, both frontends (preferably both Mobile and Web) and backends (preferably from a microservices architecture)
• Are experienced with driving test and quality efforts as a test/QA lead or similar
• Apply a proactive approach to problem-solving and the ability to drive changes well as a strong understanding of the importance of holistic view on quality
• Know your way around Git, CI/CD pipelines, GitHub and GitHub Actions (or equivalent)
• Are an expert in manual and automated testing tools and frameworks

Responsibilities

• Identify & Mitigate Risks: Collect and analyze data, root causes, and risks as well as design and implement strategies and plans to mitigate these risks
• Drive Tooling & Automation: Collaborate with our core & platform teams to make sure our product teams have and use tools and frameworks that facilitate faster and easier testing
• Improve Processes: Analyze development processes to identify areas for improvement
• Quality Advocacy: Ensure all team members have a high quality awareness. Drive adoption of proven practices, guidelines, and recommendations
• Depending on your team(s) needs, it may involve training and advocating for quality practices (presentations, training, pair-testing, metrics), analyzing performance data and bugs, and identifying ways to reduce rework and increase speed while maintaining quality

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of React / React Native / Kotlin
• Experience with accessibility testing

Benefits

• Your own Pleo card (no more out-of-pocket spending!)
• Lunch is on us - with catering in our Lisbon, Copenhagen and London offices or a monthly lunch allowance paid directly together with your salary in other markets 🍜
• Private health insurance to ensure you’re fit in body and mind to do your best work
• 25 days of holiday + your public holidays
• For our teams in engineering we offer remote working options
• Option to purchase 5 additional days of holiday through a salary sacrific
• MyndUp: to give our employees access to free mental health and wellbeing support with great success so far ❤️‍🩹
• Access to LinkedIn Learning - acquire new skills, stay abreast of industry trends and fuel your personal and professional development continuously
• Paid parental leave - we want to make sure that we're supportive of families and help you feel that you don't have to compromise your family due to work 👶
• All of us have a stake in Pleo’s success - ask us about our equity grant scheme