Alpha's Health Moonshot
Worldwide,
healthcare costs have been increasing faster than GDP for 50 years,
whilst key indicators such as life expectancy have plateaued in many
countries. The root cause is a change in disease burden – across the
world, today’s biggest diseases and biggest killers are chronic diseases
such as cancer, heart attack, stroke, and mental health disorders. In
fact, for every life saved from infections since 2000, we’ve lost two
lives to chronic disease.
However, it’s now well-established
that the main cause of chronic diseases is everyday behaviours such as
poor diet, lack of exercise, using tobacco, excessive alcohol, or lack
of sleep. To make tackling everyday behaviours even harder, pioneers in
neuroscience and behavioural economics have begun to reveal that people
are not even really in conscious control of their behaviour.
The Engineering team
is divided into several five-person feature teams. Each feature team
has a Tech Lead, four Engineers, a Product Owner and QA. We also have a
matrix support structure across feature teams.
Engineers are
very autonomous, we guard against one Engineer directing others. Tech
Leads co-ordinate but do not control. We are open, very courteous and
our retros are both focused and impressive - we continually improve. We
make joint decisions and we are collectively responsible for our
choices.
We use Scrum extensively. Our current software stack
is Typescript on NodeJS, Angular+Ionic, MongoDB, Docker amongst others.
We’re building distributed services using DDD.
A recent team
survey told us our engineering team feels their opinion is valued and
we've an incredible peer learning culture. We're focused on building a
brilliant, bright engineering team. Most Engineers are software
polyglots.
Position’s overview:
As
QA Automation Engineer you will help us to keep running all the
engineering infrastructure and the quality of all our
artefacts/applications. It’s an amazing opportunity for professional
growth and acquiring/applying different skills that are not usually
combined.
You will work on:
Maintain
and expand our testing framework for web, mobile applications (iOS and
Android) and API, which is built on top of Robot framework, Selenium,
and Appium.
Maintain and expand our performance testing.
Maintain and expand our continuous integration pipelines., which are built with Jenkins DSL
You
are familiar to deployment processes and distribute the apps through
different channels, i.e, HockeyApp, TestFlight, Google Play Store, Apple
Store.
Controlling release activities.
You are familiar to TDD and ATDD, Scrum, Jira and Git.
You provide guidance in Quality processes.
You will help us to keep up and running the engineering infrastructure.
Documenting technical aspects.
Define KPIs to help us track improvements and lead us to QA success.
Automating is our primary though and finding the most cleaver way to do it is the key.
You will work closely with engineers, data scientists, product designers and designers.
The
technological stack is not limited to our stack, we are looking for
someone with the mindset, the stack will come alongside.
Alpha Perks
We
provide all the necessary help and perks to make your life at work and
outside of work fun and comfortable all year round, like:
- Benefits package (health insurance, pension plan, life insurance)
- Casual dress code and open culture
- Flexible work schedule
- High social impact with world-wide reach
- Free daily catering for lunch and large stocked kitchen
- Weekly Lunch & Learn sessions with guests talking about the most varied world topics
- Work & learn with some of the very best minds in innovation & ideation
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Our environment is friendly and open, we are a democratic team
that encourages everybody to contribute ideas and acquire new skills.
- Based in Barcelona, right by the beach!
When applying, please provide examples of the work you did.