Senior Quality Engineer - Client Apps

We’re hiring a Senior Quality Engineer - Client Apps

We’re a global consumer tech company and an industry leader in cybersecurity. Millions of people around the world use our internet privacy and security products every day—we’re profitable and growing. Come and work with incredible people: Our teams are diverse, brilliant, friendly, and always eager to share ideas. As a company that thrives on a culture of feedback and collaboration, you’ll learn from work-class talent across 30+ nationalities. We take pride in individual excellence; we give you the room and resources to grow so you can excel. 

Want to shape our trajectory?

We are looking for an experienced Sr. Quality Engineer (QE) to create and drive our test plans and detect the toughest bugs. We test heavily, fast, and in complex environments using shift-left testing. You’ll help us set the ExpressVPN standard and deliver products of the highest performance. Make a huge impact on millions of customers who love, trust, and use our products every day. Join us and be our quality champion in the scrum.

 

What you’ll be doing

• Review user stories and requirements to create detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured tests, and decide where to test early in the sprint
• Do impact analysis to understand risks and how to mitigate them
• Estimate, prioritize, plan, and coordinate quality testing activities in and out of the scrum
• Identify, document, and track bugs
• Through exploratory testing, find the toughest bugs. We often have bugs that are non-trivial to reproduce because they depend heavily on the environment. By finding them and making them reproducible, we enable developers to fix them. We’re keen to find talent that’s especially adept at finding these hidden bugs.
• Develop and apply testing processes to improve quality and velocity in the team
• Track quality and velocity metrics: Be the “Quality Champion” in the scrum
• Contribute to the automation coverage of the product in different layers (unit test, integration, end to end)
• Perform manual testing when needed to verify the functionality of the product

You’ll help us:

• Ensure quality: Drive escaping defects down by defining the relevant testing
• Reduce our lead time: Find bugs early in the process by shifting testing left
• Improve coverage: Define, track, and increase our testing coverage  and confidence.
• Escape defects: Understand where we fail and improve our testing to avoid it next time

 

What you’ll need to succeed 

• Computer science degree or equivalent experience
• Minimum 5 years of experience as a SDET (Software developer engineer in test) / Quality engineer.
• Experience with at least one high-level automated testing framework such as Appium, Selenium, Cypress, Robot Framework, Playwright,etc.
• Good coding skills in any high-level language.
• Experience working with API mocking tools
• Familiar with  networking and network security protocols
• Experience in writing test plans and detailed test cases in agile environment.
• Attention to detail
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Creative and innovative thinking skills

 

Nice skills to have, but not required 

• Experience as a Scrum Master
• Experience with TDD and BDD

Hiring process

When it comes to hiring processes, “rigorous” and “opaque” are often mistakenly conflated. For us, it’s always a mutual exchange, so we think it’s important that candidates have a clear understanding of the process and what we’re looking for. Learn more about the hiring process by visiting our careers page.

Benefits

Health and happiness go hand in hand, and we make every effort to support our team members in all facets of their lives—both inside and outside the office. Learn more about our employee benefits by visiting our careers page.

Before you apply

• At the moment, we do not sponsor visas in the UK and the EU. For Hong Kong, we require at least two years of working experience and a university degree in a related field. For Singapore, we can only sponsor visas for mid-career or above.
• Please upload your resume as a PDF and do not include any salary or compensation information in it.

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