Test Engineering Lead at Prodigy Finance

Job description

Why this is an amazing opportunity

This role is perfect for an experienced test engineer who wants to supercharge their career by experiencing first-hand what it is like to be part of an energetic, extremely fast growing company.

The sense of impact and reward will be huge. You will help to build a product which makes a very real difference in the world. Be a part of delivering socially responsible financial services to the masses; make it possible for students from more than 100 countries to obtain the finance to fulfil their dream of studying at the world’s top universities and schools.

We are an agile, non-hierarchical team; this means that you are going to get exposure to all aspects of our business immediately. You’ll gain as much accountability as you can handle and have an influence on scaling the company.

Our team is very international and very sociable; you will interact with the broader business on a regular basis. The position will be based in Cape Town.

One of our goals is to build one of the top FinTech teams and cultures anywhere in the world. This means putting a lot of time into ensuring we only hire people with exceptional potential, and creating the best working environment possible. If you want to work somewhere where you're learning from some of the best brains in Fintech, this would be a good fit.

Why join Prodigy Finance

• Be a part of a pioneering global growth company.
• Experience the excitement and learn from being part of an incredibly fast-growing young company. No kidding – exponential growth. Happening right now!
• Be pivotal in scaling the business by identifying smart solutions and partners with tech at the heart of it.
• Enjoy the agility and flexibility offered by a startup culture. A sociable, relaxed and friendly work environment (with a serious coffee culture where you can wear shorts to work).
• We will help you make your mark. Make a real impact on the business and experience a steep learning curve with huge opportunities to grow and develop.
• Gain an inside perspective on the functioning of a venture-backed FinTech startup, backed by one of the top European VCs, learn day-to-day management and build functional expertise.
• Build a platform that helps to make a very real difference in the world.
• Receive a competitive salary and share options in the company. Since you will be playing a key role in making us successful, it is only right that you share in the rewards of our success.

What you will do in the role

As a successful Test Engineering Lead you will be balancing your role as a senior test engineer on an agile development team and mentoring team members within a culture of servant leadership.

Specific responsibilities are to:

• Contribute all aspects of quality assurance including executing test plans and test cases based on user story generation
• Apply industry best practices and develop new tools and processes to ensure quality goals are met
• Establish automated testing frameworks and share its benefits with the team
• Influence the team around concepts of whole-team testing approaches
• Mentor team members in automation testing strategy, implementation and the use of the technologies and tools selected
• Balance the requirement to automate with the need to follow manual testing practices to ensure quality product delivery
• Contribute to the delivery of all aspects of large, cross-functional product development
• Be an active contributor to internal mentoring practices such as code katas and domain jams

What you need to be great at

• Analytical thinking with a systematic, detail-oriented approach
• You’re a tech geek at heart; continually looking to improve your programming skillset
• Working in a fast-paced environment with the ability to prioritise work and balance quality and release timelines for successful code delivery
• Figuring out how things fit together and have a passion for driving improvements to raise the overall quality level of our software and operations environments
• Self-motivated, self-directed and self-sufficient
• Able to work cross-functionally with other teams to organize testing responsibilities
• Great mentor and teacher; exhibiting patience, thoughtfulness and understanding to achieve the team goals
• Foster and encourage a culture of continuous engineering improvement

What you will be judged on

You’ll be measured on the following:

• Your ability to make good decisions, be proactive and responsive by raising flags at the right time and influencing the backlog priorities to get the right work done
• How you multi-task and process large amounts of data from disparate sources
• The sense of urgency, energy and resilience you apply to your work
• Your sense of accountability of testing and understanding its importance and impact on the overall product delivery
• Can you influence and encourage team members to understand the urgency and need to respond quickly and effectively where appropriate
• Be a great individual contributor but be more motivated by leading the team to achieve
• Break down tasks and problems into manageable components independently and as part of an agile team
• How you are able to motivate, delegate, develop, coach and mentor team members
• Your ability to improve testing processes and seek new solutions to improve process and delivery

What we are looking for; track record must haves

• 5+ years of solid experience in test automation and its application in various types of testing (eg. functional, API, performance/load testing)
• 7+ years of overall testing experience within a software development lifecycle
• A strong understanding of quality assurance best practices and methodologies
• A proven track record working in a continuous delivery software development environment
• You have worked with a number of automation test tools; you tell us which one
• Experience selecting test automation opportunities and implementing automated testing tools and frameworks
• Knowledge and practice of agile software development lifecycle methodologies including but not limited to Scrum and Kanban
• Experience that would be nice to have (but we’ll trade off if everything else fits)
• Ideally you have worked as a line manager in a servant leader role
• Startup experience. Sometimes the earth moves beneath your feet at Prodigy Finance so you've got to be comfortable with ambiguity, able to wear lots of hats, and adapt easily as we continue to grow