Senior QA Engineer

At Mindera, we are passionate about creating a fantastic team and are seeking a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to join us. As a Quality Assurance Engineer, you will uphold high standards throughout the development process and ensure the quality of our backend applications written in C#.

You will play a critical role in planning and implementing test strategies, designing and developing test scenarios, and executing automated and manual tests. Your attention to detail and strong problem-solving skills will help identify and resolve issues to deliver high-quality software solutions.

We are looking for someone who is experienced in backend testing, has a strong understanding of C#, and is familiar with software development methodologies and best practices.

Key Responsibilities:

• Gain a good understanding of our products and backend services developed by engineering teams you work with. All our backend teams will give you the opportunity to work with a variety of technologies and patterns. At our core we have C# as our preferred language for backend services.
• Help grow the community of excellence across our backend product development teams by advocating and influencing the best quality practices.
• Work with multiple teams within your area to define quality outcomes and a roadmap to achieve them.
• Be able to write high quality code to create or enhance test frameworks.
• Actively consider key non-functional requirements for your area of work.
• Driving a self-organized agile team; accountable for your team’s delivery while promoting collaboration and transparency with stakeholders.
• Work centrally with the QA team to develop organization wide strategy.
• Initiate and develop new tech driven initiatives to improve quality

Key Requirements:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in quality assurance.
• Have had experience in organizations with a shift-left approach to quality.
• Very high energy and enthusiasm, with a passion for delivering awesome solutions.
• Have in-depth experience of planning, executing and validating tests for cloud hosted microservices APIs.
• Possess excellent engineering skills in C# and significant knowledge of automated test approaches and tooling.
• You have an excellent understanding and real-life experience of using TDD.
• Have a good understanding of CI/CD pipelines and managing tests within them.
• Have practical experience with GitHub Actions and Team City.
• Have a good understanding of contract-based testing.
• Understand cloud-based microservices architecture (e.g. AWS) and associated challenges.
• Have familiarity with containerization, databases, and observability tools.
• Have familiarity with Terraform.
• Have familiarity with monitoring and observability tooling like NewRelic or Grafana.
• Have strong Agile experience with a good understanding of how Quality and Agile work together.
• Are a problem-solver who can apply their skills to technical issues.
• Are a pragmatic self-starter with a keen interest in technology.
• Know what good looks like, and how to get there - you are an experienced test expert who values the broad range of testing activities that together ensure quality in the product.
• Excellent interpersonal, relationship building, coaching, and influencing skills.
• Have the right attitude to challenge status quo and improve situation (continuous improvement and critical mind)

The Things We Really Care About:

• Health Insurance, because health comes first
• Flexible working hours
• Open holidays, take the time you need for yourself
• Profit distribution for everyone
• Mindera Annual Trip, Sports, and sharing groups to connect and have fun!
• Training & conferences, create your own training plan
• Child Care vouchers

Other Good Things:

• Choose Laptop & Peripherals that best suit your needs
• Hotspot with unlimited usage (PT), for work or Netflix ;)
• We have amazing offices in Porto, Aveiro, and Coimbra if you want to physically connect with minders. Remote is also an option.
• At the offices, we have a wide range of snacks to keep you fed and healthy
• Partnerships with local businesses

Most of all You get to work with a bunch of great people, where the whole team owns the project together in a politics-free environment. Our culture reflects our lean and self-organization attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication. Freedom and Responsibility go hand in hand, and we value commitment, feedback, and empathy.

About Mindera

At Mindera we use technology to build products we are proud of, with people we love.

Software Engineering Applications, including Web and Mobile, are at the core of what we do at Mindera.

We partner with our clients, to understand their products and deliver high-performance, resilient and scalable software systems that create an impact in their users and businesses across the world.

You get to work with a bunch of great people, where the whole team owns the project together.

Our culture reflects our lean and self management attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication.

We are proud of our work and we love to learn all and everything while navigating through an Agile, Lean and collaborative environment.

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Our offices are located: Porto, Portugal | Aveiro, Portugal | Coimbra, Portugal | Leicester, UK | San Diego, USA | San Francisco, USA | Chennai, India | Bengaluru, India | Cluj-Napoca, Romania | Blumenau, Brazil