Senior Quality Engineer

WHAT WE DO:

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

Nitrogen is the growth 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.

WHO WE NEED:

We have 2 open full-time opportunities. One open Senior Quality Engineering role is on our Platform Services team & the 2nd open role is on our Platform Technology team. Please Note: Information about each team's separate role is described below. On your application, there will be a required question for you to indicate which team you are applying for.

THE TEAM'S:

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.

Platform Technology Team

Our internal Platform Technology team processes much of the data needed by product: Risk Number, Portfolio Analysis, Transformation of Provider Data, and general Portfolio Analysis. We deal with Shared Technology Concerns, including Authentication, Authorization, Messaging Patterns, and general "Platform Technology'' we want to leverage across R&D. We Build Systems/Services to make custom back-end features available to other teams with an increasing focus on: High-Performance, High-Scale Microservices, and Reduction of Technical Debt. Our team consists of 4 Software Engineers, 1 Manager, and you will complete the team as our Quality Engineer! The team is located in United States time zones, so we request some overlap hours for collaboration: minimum 2 days per week working until 7:30pm (Poland Time) for meetings. We require regular, high-quality asynchronous communication for our tasks and deliveries.

WHAT YOU'LL BE WORKING ON:

Boldly delight customers by creating, owning, and maintaining our testing and automation platform. You are driven to win and accomplish this by continuous improvement of our current testing and automation platform, coaching your fellow teammates on best practices, and providing metrics on how our quality and automation coverage is improving.

• Continuously builds on to and updates our automated test platform to ensure we are using the right tools, languages, and execution methods.
• Work daily as an integrated member of our engineering team to verify that project preparation and manual/automated tests that we’ve created meet our high standards
• Evangelizes automation first in test plans, and ensures that it’s a must have vs. nice to have when creating acceptance criteria and estimating projects.
• Reviews automated test pull requests to ensure we are following standards.
• Proactively coaches quality automation standards and processes for all R+D team members — automated validation does not stop with QA.
• Coaches your embedded team on best QA practices and is the first to make sure that quality is a critical part of any project; not just something to tack on at the end if you have extra time.
• Helps create automated tests for high priority tickets or red alerts in need of quick turnaround.
• Must be able to visualize up and downstream system type thinking to understand how they can prepare for changes could affect an org vs. just their embedded team.
• Deep curiosity into how and why things work the way they do.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional Quality Assurance engineering experience
• The ability to see an initiative all the way through
• Experience working across teams to proactively solve problems and communicate risk
• Experience with AWS
• The ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• A high-ownership personality
• 3+ years experience of working with SQL;
• 4+ years of experience with validating data flows, distributed systems, and reading output logs.
• 3+ years of experience with using tools to create API tests using tools like Postman for manual or Karate for automated testing.
• 3+ years of writing automation scripts for both front and backend
• An understanding of web technologies (JSON, JavaScript, REST APIs, and messaging queues like SQS or AMQ)
• A deep understanding of continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes and the tooling that commonly supports them
• Experience leading projects from start to finish
• An understanding of common test methodologies and practices (BDD,TDD, Blackbox, Whitebox, etc.)
• The ability to communicate feedback from your team up to leadership and speak positively to the team about the issues and resolutions leadership brings up

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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