Senior QA Engineer at Factor Eleven

YOUR MISSION

We are looking for an experienced Senior QA Engineer to elevate the quality, reliability and maintainability of our SaaS ecosystem of NodeJS Microservices and React Web Applications. You'll work on test strategies, guidelines and implementations, and the monitoring thereof. For this you’ll contribute your own ideas, process changes and new frameworks to ensure continuous quality improvements to the code base and hence act as a quality guardian across multiple projects and domains. As a QA engineer, you’ll also regularly pair up with others, perform code reviews, identify dark spots, plan out tasks and projects, estimate workloads and provide guidance.

You'll be working closely with Engineering Leadership, Product Managers and Engineers of all disciplines to elevate quality and reliability of our applications.

To excel as a Senior QA Engineer at Factor-Eleven, you should be an excellent communicator and mediator, have expert knowledge of Typescript, NodeJS based services and React applications, as well as common testing frameworks and their best practices, a solid understanding of CI/CD processes and SAST/DAST tooling and an everlasting urge to raise the quality bar.

Any experience with Cypress, Selenium, Jest, SonarQube, DataDog and GraphQL is a plus.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Ensure reliability of our high-performance applications by writing testable, reusable, and efficient code
• Optimize and expand the existing test suites and CI/CD pipelines
• Collaborate with product people on the test strategy and automation for continuous acceptance criteria validation
• Work closely with engineers to write efficient and maintainable e2e, integration and unit tests
• Perform code reviews with a focus on test coverage, quality and efficiency
• Identify dark spots and create/adjust test strategies to close them
• Supervise SAST/DAST tooling and set up strict but reasonable rules to ensure quality alignment between projects
• Have a great sense for code quality, continuously raising our quality bar.

Requirements

YOUR PROFILE

• 5+ years of professional experience in software automation
• Expert knowledge in writing tests with Cypress, Selenium, Jest or Vitest
• Ability to write efficient, reliable tests with an eye towards impact and maintainability
• Experience performing code reviews in a friendly, constructive but strict manner
• High proficiency of NodeJS with TypeScript, preferably using React and NestJS in a GraphQL microservice ecosystem
• Experience with CI/CD processes, preferably in Gitlab using Docker and/or Kubernetes
• Superb interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving aptitude
• Working knowledge of SAST/DAST tools such as SonarQube and continuous error tracking solutions, preferably DataDog.

Benefits

WHY US?

Factor Eleven's tech department is the inhouse tech scale-up responsible for our SaaS product suite offering localized digital advertising to enterprises of all sizes and shapes. We're powering the engine that Factor Eleven is successfully built upon and elevate the possibilities of our product on a daily basis. In 2022 we've scaled up, literally doubled in headcount and in 2023 we'll double again. We're working together to fulfill our ambitions as a top ad-tech provider by continuously leveling up the quality and expanding capabilities of the entire platform, as well as our engineering and product organization.

Join our amazing team in our mission to move digital localized advertisement forward and enjoy the freedom, camaraderie and perks of our fully remote operations.

OUR PERKS & BENEFITS

• Transparent, above-market salaries
• 100% remote within Europe
• Flexible work-hours and part-time models
• Be part of a fast-growing, highly-skilled team
• In person department and company events
• Home office, co-working space and work-together allowance
• Personal and professional development courses from Udemy
• Case by case relocation and visa support

Please note that you need to be residing in and hold a work permit of a country in the European Union to be considered for this role.

We are a leading technology company offering advertisers, agencies and small and medium businesses (via resellers) the most intuitive digital advertising platform with a local focus on the market. With our powerful digital media products, we are a true alternative to Google and Facebook on the Open Internet. Currently, our platform supports the media channels “Display”, “Mobile and “Video”. “Digital Out of Home” and “Addressable TV” will follow shortly.

Founded in 2014 by our CEO Alexander Anhuth, we rely on proprietary algorithms, 100% brand safety, full transparency and offer solutions for national, regional, and local campaigns that are billed on a KPI basis. We are constantly developing our technology stack to automate and simplify the process from campaign planning to billing. This means that campaigns can be booked not only using the managed service, but also via self-service in the style of Google and Facebook. In addition, we also provide an API to be able to integrate our tools and products directly into the working environment of our customers. In 2019, we convinced the jury of the SMARTech Awards with our approach and won the award for most innovative startup.

Thanks to the successful cooperation with agencies, advertisers and resellers, our platform currently processes thousands of simultaneously running campaigns for over 1,000 companies. We are proud to count renowned companies such as Vodafone, Poco, Group M, 11880, Holidaycheck, Funke Medien and many more among our customers and partners. Currently, our team consists of about 90+ employees who, in addition to the German market, also serve the Austrian, French and Italian markets. We already have our sights firmly set on entering other markets.