Let’s
talk shop: Lightspeed is looking for a full-time intermediate Quality
Test Developer to join our Amsterdam team. As a key member of the team,
you will be responsible for ensuring software quality through continuous
involvement in our Software processes. You will use your experience in
test planning and execution in an agile environment, paired with strong
technical, troubleshooting, and analytical skills. If you have a passion
for quality and want to help deliver software that solves real-world
business problems for customers around the globe, we believe we should
talk.
Here’s a little song we wrote about
you: Your love for software testing is matched with your strong
technical background. You are well versed with the unusual changes that
come with evaluating and communicating Agile software quality. You love
testing and you are game with collaborating with a distributed
development team to build products that solve real-world problems. You
believe that quality is a mindset, not a job description, and know how
to work within an agile team to raise the bar.
Now we get to brag about us: Lightspeed provides retailers and
restaurateurs the simplest way to build, manage, and grow their business
while crafting a better customer experience. Lightspeed empowers small
business owners with a complete overview of their business in one place -
more than 50,000 businesses processing over $15 billion in transactions
annually use Lightspeed’s mobile Point of Sale software
and eCommerce platform to manage inventory, customer preferences,
sales, and analytics to get a complete overview of their business in one
place. Founded in 2005 with offices in Canada, USA, and Europe,
Lightspeed’s recently completed $167 million financing round has us well
positioned to become Canada's next great technology story. We're
passionate about enabling people to do their best work. Come work with
us and find out what you can do.
Primary Responsibilities
- Design and develop automated testing standards and practices in sync with Quality Manager;
- Research, recommend, and implement tools as needed with the goal of increasing automation;
- Design and enhancing frameworks;
- Develop
manual and automated test cases to increase regression coverage as well
as new functionality testing as part of an Agile project team;
- Execute manual and automated test cases including exploratory testing as needed;
- Coaching and motivating quality specialists;
- Working with the team on implementing and executing load & performance testing;
- Work closely with the software development team to maintain a high level of product quality;
- Actively participate in software requirements definition, providing feedback, time estimates and identifying areas of risk;
- Contribute
to the ongoing efforts to refine and improve the company's test
methodologies, software development processes, and internal testing
tools;
- Recommend innovative ideas to automate to reduce manual effort and increase the code coverage;
- Be an advocate for quality throughout the development process
Requirements
- 3+ years as Automation Test Engineer/Developer (PHP, JavaScript, Python, Selenium, PHPUnit, Etc..);
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a natural curiosity and attention to detail;
- Comfort with VCS, CI tools, and Containers (Docker);
- In-depth experience with testing complex database systems and scripting languages;
- Strong interest in emerging web technologies;
- Experience in Testing API(with API client tool like Postman);
- Hands-on experience with scalability, performance and load testing of cloud-based systems;
- Track record of showing excellent judgment in test planning, issue escalation, and release decisions;
- Ability and willingness to quickly learn new technologies;
- Self-motivated with the ability to function effectively in a team environment with minimum supervision;
- Strong
analytical skills and the ability to learn quickly. Understanding of
Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Agile Methodology;
- Great attitude and work ethics;
- Strong verbal & written communication skills in English.
Assets
- Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deliveries strategies;
- Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent experience;
- Experience in security testing tools;
- Experience with PCI compliance systems;
- Experience with testing iOS and Mac applications;
- Knowledge of Lightspeed or other eCommerce products.