upday is a media and tech company and the leading news app in Europe with more than 25 million MAUs. Founded in 2016 as a joint project between Axel Springer and Samsung Electronics, upday became profitable after just 3 years in the market.  

If you’re looking to join a dynamic and international team full of fantastic talent that has the energy of a start-up but the stability of an established media company - look no further, we are your match! 

Be a Quality Assurance representative on product and/or projects assigned in terms of:

• QA strategy planning
• QA estimations
• Document management
• Automation framework creation and maintenance for frontend, for mobile applications
• Automation framework creation and maintenance for backend services
• Test execution and reporting
• Continuous monitoring of applications and services, setting up a proper incident management for anomalies identified

Moreover, take a full ownership concerning:

• Release management of backend services and mobile applications
• Establishing and being an essential link amongst Tech team ecosystem (Backend, Frontend, Data, QA) and business stakeholders when it comes to Quality Assurance related topics

With a squads team setup in place, you'll be potentially involved into several teams' rituals and meetings such as:

• Daily stand ups, Refinements, Reviews
• Company-wide sync up (i.e. All-in) meeting and workshops

• At least 3 years' experience in Software Quality Assurance
• At least 2 years' experience in test automation, especially with mobile applications
• Excellence in QA-ing of Backend APIs and services
• Working experience with mobile applications, both Android and iOS
• Experience with Functional and Non-functional tests methodologies and tools
• Proven experience with automation tools and scripting
• Significant Experience in Java/Kotlin and defining/building Automation frameworks and automation strategy
• Demonstrated experience in building out automated end to end testing within the DevOps (CI/CD) pipeline
• Experience in use of GitHub, Jira, confluence and other relevant testing tools
• Experience of building Web UI Automation framework
• Experience of Cucumber, Selenium, OpenAPI/Swagger, Postman, Gatling
• Familiarities concerning a few different agile project approaches such as Scram and Kanban

Nice to have

• Database management and solid knowledge of SQL
• AWS, Firebase and Braze excellence is an enormous advantage
• Familiarities concerning a few different agile project approaches such as Scram and Kanban

Why joining us? 

• New Work atmosphere with flat hierarchies, fast decision-making processes and an inspiring high-pace environment 
• A great opportunity to work with talented and diverse colleagues from different departments of the upday family (technology, product, marketing, editorial) 
• In addition to free drinks, fresh fruit, you will receive discounts in the Axel Springer canteen|restaurant and benefit from other advantages of belonging to the company 
• We are located in a brand new and terrific open-plan office in the heart of Berlin 
• Fully remote is possible within Germany
• A lot of team building event such as summer party, lasertag, christmas party, boat party, karaoke 
• Frequent pizza and beer events and afterworks on our 360 rooftop 
• Queer seite regroups LGBTQIA + people working for AS group who organise events, talks and pushes LGBTQAI+ agenda within the AS group and drives new projects to make AS more inclusive. 
• Every year we do an employee nps survey to measure satisfaction 
• Feel free to check our alumnis reviews on Glassdoor & Kunulu 

What we offer? 

• We provide an onboarding in terms of office equipment in all of the regions and countries through an external service provider (Mac or Microsoft notebook, and Samsung phone) 
• We provide visa advisory support through a external service provider 
• We participate and or host a lot of amazing events such as Tech Con | Women in Tech | Women mentoring programm | Hackathons  | congresses | job fairs

Are you interested? Looking forward to reading your application! 
Your partner of contact for this position is Stella Bailleux.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs (impostor syndrome) unless they meet every single qualification. At upday we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

A small insight into how we live and implement diversity and inclusion at upday can be found here: https://www.diversity.axelspringer.com/di-stories/upday

We are looking forward to receiving all applications regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, ideology, disability, age, sexual orientation and identity.