QA Automation Engineer Full Time

QA Automation Engineer

Location: At the moment, we are all working remotely. However, we have offices in London and New York, and this position can be based in either office or remote in the US or UK (subject to your existing legal right to work in either jurisdiction).

About OpenFin

OpenFin is a fast-growing financial technology company backed by the world’s largest banks and most respected Fintech VCs, including J.P. Morgan, Barclays, HSBC, Wells Fargo, Bain Capital Ventures, DRW, Nyca Partners, and Pivot Investment Partners. OpenFin modernizes and democratizes app development and distribution in the finance space. We provide a secure OS that brings a fast and intuitive app experience to the financial desktop. Built on Google’s Chromium and GitHub’s Electron open source projects, OpenFin combines native experience, data sharing, lightning-fast distribution, and robust security with an agile web development and deployment model to accelerate digital transformation and innovation. OpenFin is used by thousands of developers to deploy and run more than 1200 apps at more than 1500 financial institutions.

About the Role

OpenFin’s QA team is seeking an individual with technical expertise and quality assurance know-how to transform OpenFin’s testing infrastructure. As part of the team you’ll partner with our engineers to build and maintain a testing suite that ensures stability, durability and efficiency across all our products. In this role, you will have the ability to influence decisions and drive the direction of OpenFin’s Quality Assurance activities across development and the QA teams.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Engineers and other QA Automation Engineers to review new application features and devise appropriate automated testing strategies prior to development
• Architect and develop robust, scalable and high quality automation testing solutions for functional, regression and performance testing for OpenFin software (Desktop for Mac and Windows)
• Contribute to a quality engineering practice that thrives in finding problems before our users do and that finds innovative ways to break systems
• Form cross-functional partnerships with engineers and product managers to identify production quality solutions to improve scalability, resilience, reliability, consistency and performance
• Identify gaps in automated testing process (unit, integration, etc) and devise ways to close them

What We’re Looking For

• 3- 6+ years of software development or heavy QA automation experience across Desktop and web based software
• Experience in testing complex API based or Engineer targeted products.
• Exposure to Cyress (preferred), Mocha, Python, Selenium, Puppeteer, Jest and other best in class testing frameworks
• Substantial experience with TypeScript, JavaScript front-end frameworks (React, Next.js, etc), Node
• Excellent knowledge in building, maintaining and executing automated test harnesses
• Experience with Windows & Mac desktop applications and web front-end testing
• Quality first mindset, reliable self-starter, solutions-oriented individual with attention to detail
• Excellent analytical thinking, oral and written communication skills with agile ability to influence peers

Life at OpenFin

At OpenFin, our mission is to stay on the cutting edge of web technologies and to enable our customers to do the same. While we are currently remote, we pride ourselves on our friendly, diverse, understanding office culture. Our goal is to create a space where employees can learn and innovate, and overall, have a good time doing it. Our employees have a diverse set of interests and experiences, and we encourage you to explore those interests and share with us! We have regular happy hours and social events. Our offices and our employees are conducive to a productive learning experience — all the while creating innovative and compelling solutions for our clients.

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