QA Platform Engineer

<h3><strong>About</strong></h3><p> <br/>Swan is the leading European fintech specialized in embedded banking. A laureate of the French government’s selective year list of tech champions, “French Tech Next 120,” we are quickly expanding across Europe.</p><p>Over 100 European companies have already seamlessly integrated banking services such as accounts, cards, and payments into their products through our Banking-as-a-Service platform. This approach, known as “embedded finance”, empowers businesses to elevate their offerings and create new revenue streams — often times tripling their revenue!</p><p>Our founders’ vision from the beginning was Simplicity: that anyone with a fintech idea at 2 am can visit our website, start building, and buy themselves a coffee with a self-issued card the very next day. That vision has taken us far.</p><p>Following a 38M€ Series B round last September, we have been doubling our headcount and already have over 230 Swanees across offices in Paris, Bordeaux, Berlin, Barcelona, Amsterdam, and Milan! If you’re excited about joining a European fintech adventure, Swan is the way!</p><p><strong>To learn more about us: </strong><strong><a href="https://www.swan.io/about#about" target="_blank">About Swan</a></strong><strong> ; </strong><strong><a href="https://www.swan.io/about#our-story" target="_blank">Our story</a></strong><strong>.</strong></p><p> </p><h3> <strong>Job description</strong><br/> </h3><p> </p><p>Swan is looking for a QA Platform Engineer to join its Engineering team of 80+ people and its QA team of 5 people.</p><p>The Engineering team is by far the largest at Swan. This team includes Software Engineers, who build payments and end-customer applications, as well as Infrastructure, QA, and Security.</p><p>Swan has a diverse team of engineers from all over the place. Co-building is at the heart of the way we work. We believe in challenging each other. We believe that the values of honesty and frankness while respecting others and showing empathy, are the best way to work together and get things done in a healthy environment.</p><p>The QA team supports the Product &amp; Engineering team so that they can release quality products. With a shift left approach, it aims to find functional and non-functional bugs as soon as possible in the development lifecycle. And for this, tooling and automation are essential pillars.</p><p>Are you a passionate QA professional ready to make a significant impact in the fintech industry? Join our dynamic team as a <strong>QA Platform Engineer</strong> to shape and enhance our Quality Assurance processes, tools, and automation framework!</p><p><strong>✨ Your mission:</strong></p><p><strong>Automation framework improvement</strong> </p><ul> <li>Refactor and enhance the current automation framework to ensure scalability, maintainability, and effectiveness.</li> <li>Optimize test coverage and execution efficiency to support rapid deployment cycles.</li> </ul><p><strong>QA Tooling and Processes</strong></p><p></p><ul> <li>In collaboration with the QA Manager, identify, evaluate, and implement tools to improve the QA team's productivity and precision.</li> <li>Streamline existing QA workflows to align with industry best practices.</li> </ul><p><strong>Bug Detection and Resolution</strong></p><ul> <li>Design strategies to quickly identify and address functional and non-functional bugs.</li> <li>Ensure comprehensive validation of application performance, security, and usability.</li> </ul><p><strong>Collaboration and Leadership</strong></p><ul> <li>Work closely with the QA Manager to set quality benchmarks and goals.</li> <li>Mentor and guide QA team members to elevate technical expertise and standards.</li> <li>Collaborate with engineering and product teams to integrate quality throughout the development lifecycle.</li> </ul><p><strong>Innovation and Improvement</strong></p><ul> <li>Stay ahead of trends in QA methodologies, tools, and technologies to ensure continuous improvement.</li> <li>Champion a culture of quality, promoting proactive approaches to testing and problem-solving.</li> </ul><p></p><p><strong>✨ Our technical environment:</strong></p><ul> <li>Playwright (using TypeScript) is our current framework for automated tests</li> <li>We use Linear and Notion for project management and documentation</li> </ul><p></p><p><strong>✨ Methodology</strong></p><p>At Swan, we build a product that is mainly designed to be consumed by other engineers. As such, we expect Engineers to take a real role in co-building the product we offer, proposing ideas and challenging what’s doable.</p><p>To facilitate this, Engineers are split into independent squads of 4 to 8 engineers working alongside dedicated Product Managers. They build together the roadmap on a quarterly basis and are able to iterate on it in a cycle of 2 to 4 weeks.</p><p>Because the stability of our system is important, we expect engineers to come up with technical projects that help us scale and add