QA Engineer Release Manager

At Lifebit, we carve our own path. We're open-source pioneers and our driving mission is to revolutionise bioinformatics and biomedical data analysis forever.

Our product, Lifebit CloudOS, is the world’s first federated genomics platform for unified, secure research over distributed big data. No one has anything close. Think best-in-class UI/UX, seamless integration with open-source tools, powerful cohort browser, advanced AI. We’re leading the industry and leaving competitors in the dust. We intend to keep it that way.

While we know our technology is unmatched, we also know we can keep making it greater without an exceptionally strong team to help take it to incredible new heights. (We’ve got some really big plans afoot...).

Our engineering and research team is composed of a mix of software, and bioinformatics, currently our engineers are split between Lisbon and London. Software engineers don’t need any prior knowledge or experience in bioinformatics, we solve problems differently to the industry’s standards and favour creative problem solving.

The different teams’ stack includes:

• Backend: NodeJS, TypeScript, MongoDB
• Infrastructure: Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS
• Frontend: React-Redux
• Machine Learning: Python, Pandas, Sklearn, Tensorflow
• Bioinformatics: Nextflow, Conda, Python, R, Bash, Docker, Singularity

As a QA Release manager in our team, you will:

• Ensure releases happen smoothly in both a waterfall and agile approach
• Run CI/CD pipelines to trigger releases
• Coordinate QA effort during releases for manual and automated regression tests
• Liaise with developers to ensure all bugs/problems during releases are fixed and report directly to key stakeholders (Client managers, Product Directors)
• Ensure that all feature deliverables meet quality objectives
• Diagnose, track and clearly document defects found and release status
• Work together with Lifebit engineers, product owners and customer service, to identify risks, understand how new features should be tested, and then engage them in contributing automated and manual tests

Requirements

The role requirements below are just an indication of what we’re looking for - sometimes the perfect candidate is far more or less experienced than we anticipated. If you think that might be your case, please reach out and let us know!

Specifically, you have:

• Experience in QA automation and creation of test data sets, as well as manual bug discovery
• Familiarity with test runners like Jest or Mocha, and testing utilities like Chai, Enzyme or React's TestUtils
• Experience in leading a team of QA engineers
• Experience with CI/CD and GitHub actions
• Experience in leading releases and improve release processes
• Excellent communication with stakeholders
• Excellent knowledge of how web applications work
• Ability to work and thrive in a fast-paced environment, learn rapidly and master diverse QA and testing techniques

Benefits

• Competitive salary and generous stock options
• 25 days of annual leave plus the usual public holidays
• Monthly team activities
• Conferences, events and training resources - we offer €1,000 a year to each person for personal development)
• International and diverse team

Lifebit is on the cutting edge of the biotechnology revolution. Based in London, UK, Lifebit is a diverse team spanning Europe and North America, with each person empowered and involved in every aspect of the business.

Here’s your chance to lead, to design, to own. To create.

Get in touch today