QA Engineer

  • Full-time

Company Description

Yapily (www.yapily.com) is a well funded, dynamic and forward-thinking fintech start up which is proud of its strong technical background. We are looking for an exceptional Software Engineer

Job Description

Do you want to participate in the biggest technology revolution in finance? To define and build APIs, SDKs and other tools for developers, so they can create new and innovative fintech services? If any of this motivates you then look no further, come join us in a team of talented engineers to build connectivity to banks.

Yapily is building API connections to all retail banks, normalising and enriching the data, and providing it through a highly secure and performant API.

We are looking for QA and automation engineers to help us be even more effective by building smarter mechanisms for finding issues. This is where you come in.

For this position you will have:

  • Strong skills in leading QA Strategy
  • Experience in working with Agile methodology
  • Excellent skills in Automation testing (writing scripts, building frameworks) 
  • Coding experience in Java
  • Experience testing APIs
  • Experience with Cucumber, Gherkin, Selenium etc.
  • Strong communication skills
  • Minimum 2 years of experience in API and Web UI tests automation using Java Maven Cucumber and any supporting java based libraries
  • Experience of working closely with Product Owners/BA/Developers

Equally important to these specific skills is the ability to multi-task, quickly adapt to new development environments and changing business requirements, learn new systems, create reliable/maintainable code, and find creative and scalable solutions to difficult problems.

Responsibilities

  • Support, maintain, and build testing applications, that can automatically detect and report anomalies of APIs, web applications or other software built by the team or that our systems depend on.

  • Validate software delivered by development teams against user story requirements.

  • Ensure principles of privacy and security are assessed and designed into the data solutions.

  • Ensure product owners are satisfied that code has been robustly demonstrated to meet their needs.

  • Manage individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables.

  • Work in an Agile environment.

Qualifications

 

  • BA/BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical work experience

  • Strong Computer Science fundamentals

  • 2+ years of QA experience

  • Outstanding knowledge of Java, APIs, Web development

  • Able to bring experience and ideas that will help Yapily deliver highly efficient and reliable services

  • You must be eligible to live and work in the UK. We are not able to provide visa sponsorship.

Additional Information

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a fast growing company.  At Yapily, we don’t just accept difference - we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products and our community! Get in touch!