Quality Assurance Engineer

WHAT WE DO:

We are on a mission to empower the world to invest fearlessly.

Nitrogen is the client engagement platform for wealth management firms. We help our customers grow their business by providing a personalized client experience while increasing firmwide efficiency. We believe that people should have access to objective and easy-to-understand information as it relates to investing and their own financial futures. The wealth management firms we partner with do exactly that.

WHAT WE ARE ALL ABOUT:

Nitrogen is defined by growth. We are a fast-paced, ever-evolving team that loves being at the forefront of technological innovation in the investing space. The work we do takes creative problem solving and a can-do attitude. Every member of our team is a critical player who takes accountability for their work and stewards it with excellence. As a company, we value each other by creating space for everyone to be heard and well supported. We achieve this goal through weekly team meetings, one-on-one managerial investment in each employee, and thorough feedback processes. We strive to create an atmosphere that is based on respect and communication, while also fostering an engaging and lively work environment. From all-staff meetings, to team build events, to department-wide retreats, we give everyone a seat at the table to contribute their best work and have fun along the way. We are highly collaborative, thoroughly engaged, and completely committed to bringing our best day-in and day-out. From the customers we support, to the careers we foster, we infuse growth and advancement into everything we touch.

Nitrogen is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply. We are committed to being fair and intentional in our hiring decisions by reviewing every application thoroughly.

THE TEAM + THE PRODUCT:

Platform Services Team

Our team, Platform Services aka Jabba is responsible for creating and maintaining crucial microservices that provide Accounts and Securities data for our customers. We are focused on providing up to date data with current analysis. Our tech stack includes MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, SQS, SNS, Kafka. Current team size is 6 people (4 Software Engineers, one Quality Engineer, and one Engineering Manager). We need you to make the team complete! You’ll be on a mission to ensure that our customers' delight is not diminished because of a broken or confusing user experience, by creating, owning, and maintaining our test automation platform. You accomplish this by continuous improvement of our current automation platform, coaching your fellow teammates on best practices, and providing metrics on how our automation is improving.

Requirements

• You have 1+ years of professional Quality Assurance engineering experience
• You’re a curious and technologically savvy person who loves digging into what makes software tick — a quick study who’s never said something was too difficult to learn.
• You’re completely comfortable and very experienced using complex web applications, and find yourself coming up with improvements and feature requests as you do. When you find a bug in some piece of software, you’re one to report it, not think, ‘someone else will probably do it.’
• You have strong written communication skills and love working with people who have different levels of experience than you do, in both directions.
• You have an attention to detail that’s motivated by care, not pedantry.
• Being a voice of user empathy in the development process is an exciting prospect to you.
• You’re always working to build your technical skills, and have been looking for the right environment you can push yourself in — alongside a supportive team.
• You have 1+ years of experience working with teams to plan work, analyzing projects to identify risk from the beginning, creating test plans, and executing those plans.
• You have a good understanding of (and actual experience testing) APIs
• You have a basic understanding of common web technologies (Javascript, HTML, CSS, etc.)
• You have a deep understanding of the deployment process and are able to communicate with team members about deployment dependencies, issues, and improvements needed.
• You have an understanding of common test methodologies (BDD, Blackbox, Whitebox, etc…)
• You have at least 1+ years of experience using SQL to verify data is being stored correctly and are able to help or ask others how to find the data you need.
• You have some experience in automating multi-layered (functional, integration, e2e) tests, preferable technologies are Python, Playwright, Behave, Pytest.

Benefits

• Medical healthcare for you, your partner, or your family;
• Full Remote is possible, but if you want to work on-site/hybrid, our office is located in Wroclaw city center - Green2Day - with parking space nearby;
• Benefits cafeteria - Worksmile;
• English language course, Grammarly access.

WANT TO KNOW MORE?

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