Senior QA Engineer

Lendable is on a mission to make consumer finance amazing: faster, cheaper, and friendlier. We're building one of the world’s leading fintech companies and are off to a strong start:

• One of the UK’s newest unicorns with a team of just over 500 people

• Among the fastest-growing tech companies in the UK

• Profitable since 2017

• Backed by top investors including Balderton Capital and Goldman Sachs

• Loved by customers with the best reviews in the market (4.9 across 10,000s of reviews on Trustpilot)

So far, we’ve rebuilt the Big Three consumer finance products from scratch: loans, credit cards and car finance. We get money into our customers’ hands in minutes instead of days.

We’re growing fast, and there’s a lot more to do: we’re going after the two biggest Western markets (UK and US) where trillions worth of financial products are held by big banks with dated systems and painful processes.

1. Take ownership across a broad remit. You are trusted to make decisions that drive a material impact on the direction and success of Lendable from day 1

2. Work in small teams of exceptional people, who are relentlessly resourceful to solve problems and find smarter solutions than the status quo

3. Build the best technology in-house, using new data sources, machine learning and AI to make machines do the heavy lifting

What's the job

We’re looking for a Senior QA Engineer to join our cross-functional teams building our React Native Zable App, used by over 1M monthly customers on iOS and Android.

Over the next year we have big plans for our app. New products and bringing Zable to new audiences. We are scaling our dev team up to match our ambition and we’re looking for talented people to help us experiment and succeed in these new areas.

Our new Senior QA Engineer will take responsibility for the smooth running of our automated test suites and infrastructure. They will collaborate with developers, providing advice on best practices for test writing and QA rigour. They will need to be hands on with our Maestro E2E test code and infrastructure to scale this up. They will be a leader of Quality, educating and motivating other teams to make changes that improve our QA processes.  

Mobile Apps - Typescript, React Native, GraphQL, Jest, React Testing Library, Maestro

Web - Typescript, React, NextJS, SCSS, Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress, Redux

Backend - Kotlin, PHP 7/8 (Symfony), AWS, Postgres, RabbitMQ, Docker, Kubernetes

Tooling

• Github, Jira & Confluence, for our code & product management processes

• Github Actions

• Bugsnag, Datadog & Sentry for debugging and reporting

• Figma & Storybook, for our design process

For more information about how we work you can also check out our blog and read more about our workplace culture.

About You

• You have a significant amount of experience in QA Automation testing, specifically for mobile apps

• You are proficient using modern Javascript with Typescript

• You are experienced in setting up automation test frameworks and maintaining automated test infrastructure

• You have the investigatory skills and the tenacity to enthuse people to get to the root cause of system failures

• You are proactive and take initiative, preferring to improve the app or test infrastructure rather than maintaining the status quo.

• You have the ability to mentor developers on the subject of testing, inspiring them to improve their tests and coverage

• You have a strong understanding of the different needs of mobile users across a variety of platforms and devices and what is pragmatic to test for

• You understand the importance of catering to users with accessibility needs, and are familiar with the approaches and tooling required to ensure accessibility guidelines and best practices are adhered to

• You have a product mindset and enjoy working with product managers and engineers to ensure we have appropriate tests and levels of coverage for MVP and critical feature functionality, as well as non-functional requirements including security and performance.
  

What would make you stand out

• You have experience using Maestro for mobile testing

• You have experience testing cross-platform mobile development using React Native

• You have experience with test tracking software to manage test suites

• You’ve tested products that have used staged rollouts and multivariate testing approaches to release new features and test hypotheses

• You’ve worked on products that have scaled from zero users to tens or hundreds of thousands (or more), and can apply what you learnt in new contexts
  

Interview process

• A quick video call with a member of our talent team to learn more about you

• A 45-minute video call with an Engineering Manager to discuss your experience and answer any initial technical questions you have about the role

• A short test automation exercise to complete in your own time

• Final Onsite or Video interviews;

  • A technical session with your peers where you’ll discuss your solution to the exercise, talk through some problems and scenarios, and dig deeper into your technical experience

  • An interview with an Engineering Manager to explore your motivations and goals, assess how you could play a part in your team’s success, and better understand how we could help you thrive in your role. 

• The opportunity to scale up one of the world’s most successful fintech companies.

• Best-in-class compensation, including equity.

• You can work from home every Monday and Friday if you wish - on the other days, those based in the UK come together IRL at our Shoreditch office in London to be together, build and exchange ideas.

• Enjoy a fully stocked kitchen with everything you need to whip up breakfast, lunch, snacks, and drinks in the office every Tuesday-Thursday.

• We care for our Lendies’ well-being both physically and mentally, so we offer coverage when it comes to private health insurance

• We're an equal-opportunity employer and are looking to make Lendable the most inclusive and open workspace in London

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