Senior QA Software Engineer

at  Staffbase

ABOUT STAFFBASE

In a polarized world, we inspire people to achieve great things together. Our mission is to help organizations unlock the power of inspirational communication so they can thrive in the Narrative Age. Our award-winning communications channels - intranet, employee app and email - deliver experiences that drive engagement and inspire hearts and minds.
We’re headquartered in Chemnitz, Germany, with offices in many locations throughout the world, including New York, London, Berlin and Dresden. Our international team counts more than 750 employees from 45+ nationalities and we have a growing base of 2200+ customers that want to transform their employee experience. We are rapidly scaling, post-Series E ($115 million funding), have strong-growing revenue, and our customers love us.
Hey there! We’re on the lookout for a Senior Software Engineer for our Quality Assurance Team. Join our Staffbase team and help us build an awesome internal communications platform. We are looking for empathetic and motivated team players who are motivated by growth and ownership. Let’s talk!
The QA Software Engineer has experienced software development skills to create, deploy and operate various automated test infrastructure components. A thorough understanding of clean software design and architecture is essential and you are familiar with reviewing a production codebase. You play a pivotal role in developing and maintaining our internal quality assurance frameworks, facilitating its adoption through to our product teams.

Don’t be scared of our tech stack, it’s fine, if you know parts of it.

• Our platform is built with React.js, Javascript, Typescript, Kotlin, Go, Java, MongoDB, Terraform and Docker, to name a few.
• As a QA Software Engineer you should be familiar with some test approaches like unit tests, integration tests, end-to-end tests or visual regression tests.

We use toolings like Github Actions, Cypress, Appium, Playwright, Sonarcloud or Grafana to build our QA infrastructure.

WHAT YOU NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL

• Passionate about Software Quality, the services you build and seeking to make a difference.
• You value quality as well as clean code and learning new things. Next to that, you are passionate for Test Driven Development.
• Experience in our product tech stack (e.g. Typescript or Kotlin) and QA toolings (e.g. Github Actions and Playwright). Good understanding of REST principles and Microservices.
• Ideally, you have worked with MongoDB, Terraform and Docker before
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Preferably, you have worked in an agile environment before.
• Good English communication skills.
• Understanding and appreciative diversity and inclusivity in the workplace.

• Responsible for improving and developing our test frameworks focusing on customer facing frontends, including native apps, and our REST-ful web services.
• Work in a dedicated QA infrastructure team and produce high-quality tools and guidelines for our product teams.
• Give and receive valuable feedback in our code review process and continuously learn and share knowledge with your peers.
• Being open to feedback and taking ownership of your work are essential.
• Take ownership for the topics you care about, ranging from the services you produce over the documentation of our work to the environment we work in.
• You work iteratively, frequently pushing code, ensuring a good CI/CD pipeline, and automating where possible.