[Hiring] Automation QA Engineer / Mentor @Mate Academy

Mate academy - EdTech startup training people to code and get their first job in tech. Students are trained for free until they get a job in tech. After getting the job they pay a percentage from their salary (a.k.a Income share agreement). 2000+ students placed with 90% success rateOur mission - train 1M software engineers around the globe Our goal - expand our operations to Poland. 

Responsibilities

• As QA Engineer:
  • Reviewing product requirements and technical documentation.
  • Defining test cases for the new features. 
  • Functional testing of the website and mobile app.
  • Bug reporting, tracking, and verification.
  • Automated E2E test cases development and maintenance. 
  • Test automation framework improvements development.
  • Regression testing of the website and mobile app.
  • Reviewing users' feedback. 
• As Mentor:
  • Reviewing students' homework and providing feedback.
  • Conducting Q&A sessions - answering students' questions. 
  • Conducting technical checks and exams - checking if students learned the material. 
  • Answering students' questions in chats. 

• Collaborating with the coordinator's team in supporting students during learning and employment.
  
  

Requirements

• 2+ years of commercial experience in test automation and quality assurance. 
• Strong understanding of testing theory (testing types, technics, etc.).
• Strong understanding of SDLC and best practices in the software development process (code reviews, CI\CD, etc.). 
• Hands-on experience in testing web applications and APIs. 
• Experience in web UI test automation with the help of Cypress or similar tools.
• Experience in Javascript and Typescript. 
• Experience with writing SQL queries. 
• Experience working with terminal, git, and docker. 
• Upper-intermediate English level (reading/writing/speaking).
• Strong analytical, investigation, and troubleshooting skills, proactive, and innovative.

We offer 

• A mission to help 1M of people to start their career in tech;
• Play a key role in shaping the future of education;
• Freedom to make own decisions and influence business;
• Cool engineering culture: every person takes responsibility for the part of our product. Your opinion has a significant impact on further features and the roadmap planning;
• Close to zero bureaucracy;
• Unlimited paid vacation;
• Work directly with the company's founders (seasoned entrepreneurs, ex-Google engineer).