QA Engineer (Europe-based, remote)

Sherpany is the Swiss market leader for meeting management software. Since its founding in 2011, it has pursued the goal of creating a world in which every meeting counts. Over 400 European companies and 12,000 decision-makers are already using Sherpany with the aim of making their business relevant meetings more productive and thereby increasing corporate success. With headquarters in Zurich and 130 Sherpanees from 27 different nationalities, we are an international company with a flat hierarchy, in which you can take lot of responsibility and your ideas are always welcome.

Your mission as QA Engineer is to:

• Ensuring product quality in order to achieve better customer satisfaction
• Establishing and maintaining a quality system for all requirements
• Analysing and evaluating data and key performances and drive continuous development of the quality
• Conduct testing of applications, identifying deficiencies and creating and managing the overall quality planning strategy
• Create and maintain automated tests to reduce the time of repetitive tasks
• Creating reports for management and making sure that a quality awareness mindset is established in the team

What we will love about you:

• You are an experienced QA Engineer with different testing techniques such as UI Testing, Automated Testing, Performance Testing, API testing and have a knowledge of REST, Python, TypeScript
• You have experience in writing automated tests in Playwright or you are willing to learn how to do that
• You are experienced with agile methodologies and have strong analytical skills
• You are a solution-oriented team player with an autonomous and proactive working style
• You have experience / Knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker and CI/CD (Github Actions) is a plus
• You have great interpersonal and communication skills in English

How you can imagine us:

• You are part of an international company with a flat hierarchy, in which you can take lot of responsibility and your ideas are always welcome
• In order to maintain your work-life balance we offer flexible working hours and remote-workin
  
• Your personal and professional development is important to us which is why we offer financial support for further education, trainings etc.
• Last but not least: Our corporate culture means a lot to us which is why we organize regular team events and cultivate a value-driven cooperation

Recruiting process:

1. Interview with our Talent Acquisition Specialist
2. Show us your skills in a Challenge
3. Technical interview with our QA team
4. Cultural interview with your future Squad and our Head of Platform and Operations
5. Job offer 🎉
   

Are you ready for the challenge? 🚀 We look forward to receiving your application!

Milestones for the 1st month

1. Build initial relationship with the Squad, Chapter and the team
2. Have an overall understanding of the product and the technology
3. Understand the organisational structure and know how to operate both within the Product Department and across departments.
4. Be familiar with the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), testing methodologies, our internal processes, defect life cycle and comfortable to navigate it with the team
5. Formally take over the QA activities in the squad

Milestones from 1st - 3rd month

1. Getting familiar with our test automation and start contributing to it
2. Get deep understanding of the product in the dedicated Squad-owned areas
3. Getting familiar with our Infrastructure and our CI/CD processes
4. Autonomously lead the Squad testing activities - both manual and automation

Milestones from 3rd - 6th month:

1. Participate in code reviews for automation tests
2. Learn best practices for scalable & maintainable automation
3. Gain basic awareness of security testing principles
4. Own complex testing tasks (manual & automation)
5. Share your learnings with the team (presentations, documentation)