Senior QA Automation Engineer

About RootstockLabs

At RootstockLabs, we believe Bitcoin will underpin humanity’s economic future. But for this to happen, Bitcoin’s functionality must be extended and made available to all. This is why we have been long-standing contributors to Rootstock, the largest and longest-running Bitcoin sidechain. Rootstock allows anyone to develop apps and services on top of the planet’s most secure and decentralised financial infrastructure; Bitcoin. 

Today we continue to contribute to Rootstock’s evolution by building tools and technology focused on making Bitcoin work for everyone.

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior QA Engineer to join RootstockLabs during this exciting time of growth. Reporting to the Head of QA, you will support the Developer Experience squad in their ongoing challenge to craft cutting-edge solutions for the rootstock community.

As an accomplished automation engineer, you will work across multiple teams and support them in identifying and addressing potential issues in the development lifecycle, estimating testing efforts and collaborating with a cross-functional team to meet project milestones. This role is an incredible opportunity to impact the Developer Experience team for one of the world’s leading smart contract platforms.

What You’ll be Doing

• Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities

• Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases

• Design, develop and execute automation scripts

• Provide exhaustive and detailed documentation on bug reports, test cases, and automation tools used, among others

• Coordinate the tracking of bugs found with the development team

• Perform thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved or before a release.

• Investigate product quality in order to make improvements to achieve better customer satisfaction

• Collaborate with the Development team to ensure consistent project execution

• Identify quality assurance process bottleneck and suggest actions for improvement

• Collect and report quality data 

• Prepare and present reports and metrics to management and the squad

• Establish excellent QA practices that can be transferred to other technical teams of the organization

What You’ll Bring to the Table

• Bachelor or Advanced Student of Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Systems or related careers

• 5-8 years of experience working as a QA Automation Engineer

• Blockchain and Crypto experience

• Working knowledge of common software architectures (web/mobile/API/DB)

• Strong technical ability who has previously set up UI and API automation framework

• Experience in writing, executing and monitoring automated test suites using a variety of technologies

• Proficient with bug tracking and test management toolsets to support development processes

• Strong working knowledge of testing fundamentals such as TDD and BDD automation framework experience.

• Working knowledge in one or more automation tools (Selenium, Appium, WebdriverIO, Playwright, Chai, Mocha, SoapUI, JMeter…)

• Working knowledge in one or more test management tools (Xray, Zephir, TestRail…)

• Programming languages knowledge (JavaScript, TypeScript, Java)

• Experience with performance tests

• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process

• Experience working towards objectives with remote teams

• Bring the right attitude to the team: ownership, accountability, attention to detail.

• Advanced English language proficiency

• Good interpersonal and communication skills

Bonus points:

• Blockchain Technology Knowledge.

• Strong interest in and familiarity with cryptocurrency and decentralized technologies.

• Experience working in a fast-growing start-up.

• Information Security Knowledge.

• Threat model, safe development cycle (SDL).

• Ability to evaluate software stability and quality from a security perspective.

What You’ll Get Back!

• Competitive salary

• 100% remote working (contractor) from anywhere in the world

• Possibility to work at your nearest WeWork space

• Flexible working hours. You’re free to work however you work best

• Opportunity to work with state of art technology in a challenging and unique project 

• Internationally diverse and dynamic team with a clear vision and strategy 

• Training programs to learn everything about the crypto world

• Weekly scientific moments by our Research & Innovation team to learn about technology, challenges, and solutions in the blockchain world

• Language courses: English, Spanish or Portuguese.

• Employee assistance program offering legal, financial, family, psychological, and wellness counseling for you and your family

RootstockLabs Mission & Purpose

Our purpose: Make Bitcoin work for everyone!

Our mission: give developers the tools to build on Bitcoin, support the growth of the Rootstock ecosystem, and expand the frontiers of decentralised technology.