Junior QA Engineer

Junior QA Engineer

Ding is the world’s leading universal top-up service. Founded in 2006, born from seeing something that wasn’t there. More than 80% of the world’s 5 billion mobile phones are now prepaid – and growing. We believe mobile phones can change lives and we want to improve people’s lives by helping those with less gain access to more.

Ding is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, and has employees working across the world!

We are proud of our culturally diverse team of more than 200 employees, all with unique personalities who support our commitment to delivering cutting-edge, potentially life-changing technology to developed and emerging markets alike.

About this role:

The Junior QA Engineer will report to the QA Manager. You will have the responsibility for proving quality across the full range of ding’s top-up products and mobile operator interfaces. Working closely with the development team, you will have exposure to an online transaction processing system, web UI, mobile application, API and database testing. You’ll help to improve the quality of production releases through manual testing and gain exposure to our QA automation frameworks. You will also be using advanced technologies in our Cloud infrastructures. Working across different teams, you will engage with Product Managers and Business Analysts helping to develop specifications with a user-first approach. Soft skills such as good communication and the ability to determine whether a software release should proceed are also important. As the technology team has transformed from Agile Scrum to Lean Kanban, you’ll be joining at a really interesting time of evolving autonomous teams, making independent decisions and having a full say in how and when work is delivered.

What we need you to do:

• Strong communication skills.
  Protect and encourage quality from the beginning through user spec reviews and the capture, prioritisation and escalation of issues.
• With a user-first approach and having unique knowledge of the systems, work closely with product managers and the development team to produce the best features and functionality to increase Ding’s success.
• Using Lean Kanban methodologies to make autonomous decisions and release more frequently.
• Contribute to acceptance and regression testing efforts
• Running automated tests, monitoring results for regression purposes
• Monitoring logs and deciding when there is a problem, during the testing process; investigating possible bugs
• Reporting accurate bugs following the team standards
• Develop a strong knowledge of the high dependency multi-tiered architecture
• Good experience with testing backend applications, apis and data flows.
• Champion excellent quality within the team; push high standards in all aspects of development
• Develop a deep understanding of the Kanban methodologies the teams within Ding use
• Have a passion for quality and customer experience journeys while meeting challenging deadlines.

What we are looking for:

Required Skills

• 1-2 years' experience in a software testing role
• Exposure to Api testing,
• Write accurate bug reports in Gherkin format.
• Ability to speak up for best quality practices across the team.
• Exposure to a fast-paced environment, managing frequent release cycles
• Solid experience of product and testing tools such as JIRA, Bugzilla, TestRail, etc.
• Strong communication skills.
  

Desired requirements

• Experience with automation frameworks (Selenium, Appium, Jmeter)
• Ability to interrogate databases using SQL.
• Experience gained in an online transaction processing environment.
• Experience testing across high dependency multi-tiered applications.
• A Bachelor’s Degree such as Software Engineering, Computer Science or related

Ding is committed to creating equal employment opportunities in the workplace. We know that experience looks different for everyone – if you believe your proven experience would suit this role and is what we are looking for, we encourage you to apply.

Life at Ding:

At Ding, we are striving to grow and nurture a culture that is inclusive, global, and equitable but most of all fun! In addition, to your basic salary and bonus there are many benefits also available across Ding. Some are recent additions, some have been enhanced, and others have been there all along!

• YOLO days & Dingversary Leave: Additional holidays the year of your 4th/7th/10th/13th Anniversary
• Flexible & Hybrid Working: We recognise the need to use space and working practices in ways that best support you.
• Work Abroad Programme: The opportunity to work for 30 days from another country each year.
• Remote Working Allowance
• Wellness Programme: With monthly events, both virtual and in-person.
• Enhanced Family Policies

Our aim is to build and run the safest, simplest, most effective and convenient top-up technology, in partnership with the best operators and platforms. Now more than ever we realise the importance of keeping in touch and here at Ding we believe a little goes a long way.

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