Senior Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer at Stitch at Stitch

Description
The Role

Stitch is a developer-first API startup with a mission to deeply connect financial systems with the wider world. We provide an API which allows third-party apps and websites to interact with their user's bank accounts in ways that unlocks the ability for companies across Africa to build innovative technology products quickly.

Creating innovative financial products is incredibly difficult today, and we believe that unlocking the way people interact with their finances starts with enabling developers with the tools and infrastructure needed to execute on their vision.

We are looking for an experienced QA engineer who is looking to grow with the company. The ideal candidate will be be comfortable with testing frameworks, automated testing, and care about delivering a high quality end user and developer experience.

In addition to helping define the company's foundational testing architecture and products, an early Stitch QA Engineer will have the opportunity to stretch their leadership legs.Our engineering process aims to facilitate close collaboration and sustainable product development.

Software Engineering Principles

As a Stitch QA Engineer, you will be working closely with the engineering teams in building out our testing infrastructure. We firmly believe that any technical choice should be mediated by an understanding of the costs and benefits, nevertheless here are some of the principles that we espouse:

User First - We are never satisfied with a technically convenient design if it leaves our end users worse off. We will always go the extra mile for our users.
State Driven - We aim to think deeply about the domain and modelling of data in such a way that it makes illegal state unrepresentable. We aim to have our tests support and validate this.
A snapshot of our current stack

• Typescript
• Kubernetes
• Node.js
• GraphQL
• React
• Next.js
• IdentityServer4 (dotnet core)
• PostgreSQL
• Github & Github Actions

Responsibilities

• Own our testing projects from inception to production.
• Build automated testing infrastructure, encompassing both API and UI tests.
• Defining and driving the testing process within Stitch.
• Maintain QA engineering best practices.
• Work with Stitch's product designers and product managers to ensure customer needs are validated.
• Attempt to always write good quality and maintainable tests, and perform code reviews.
• Ensure automated tests are supplemented with manual testing where required.

Requirements

• 4+ years in industry as a test engineer or equivalent.
• Experience testing APIs.
• Experience testing responsive web applications.
• You have a product mindset and are excited by what we are building: you care about customer outcomes and you want to make data-informed decisions.
• Enjoy being part of a small team and are actively thinking of ways to enhance our processes, our internal tools, and the way we work.
• Should have experience using an automated testing framework.

Advantageous

• Experience writing automated tests for frontend applications, and advocate for the importance of the testing pyramid.
• Experience with Javascript libraries (Typescript).
• A track record of success in financial technology or a related technology start-up.
• Interest in Open Banking.
• Experience working in B2B SaaS, API or Payments companies.
• Understanding the challenges of building software products for an African market.
• Strong understanding of developers and what makes a good developer experience.