The team
The QA team at Copper is essential to the progression of Copper’s products and is an integral part of the engineering team. The QA engineers explore Copper’s architecture, designs, and codebase in order to identify potential problems, designing and implementing solutions to guide our engineers, ensuring our software meets the highest standards. You will be coaching and leading the adoption of different testing techniques on the engineering team, contributing to the development of an autonomous teams that deliver high quality software.
The role
- You will join as a part of the product development team, participating in every stage of product and feature development - from requirements, to build, to release, to iteration and support
- Lead quality assurance process adoption within your team by coaching them
- Act as a mentor and a role model for quality within the team
- Review and ensure test processes are followed and features are properly tested following the testing pyramid
- Working in a complex environment (e.g., trading / blockchain / DeFi ) and adapting well to changes
Your experience, skills and knowledge
- In-depth knowledge of QA methodologies, processes and best practises for the testing of back-end microservices
- Ability to drive forward and coach team on all areas of quality engineering
- Strong technical knowledge with different approaches and phases of manual testing
- Strong understanding of the test pyramid and the value of automated testing
- Hands-on experience with automated testing tools
- Expertise with the Shift Left approach
- Understanding of the full development lifecycle
- Basic knowledge of OOP fundamentals
- Self-driven, analytical, problem-solving skills and a team player
- Proactivity. Thinking out of the box and contributing to continuous improvements and anticipating potential issues.
Bonus points if you have
- Experience working in financial services, fintech or on blockchain projects (cryptocurrency wallets, exchanges, blockchain data processing, DeFi, Smart Contracts etc)
Benefits
- Bi-annual bonus incentive
- Employee Growth Share incentive
- 25 days holiday a year plus bank holiday entitlement (plus one day per year of service up to 30 days)
- Private medical and dental care
- Pension with matched contribution, up to 10% of salary
- Home Working Energy Support Scheme
- Monthly events such as game nights, quiz nights, cinema nights
- An annual Copper Summit (This year was Lisbon!)
- Breakfast and refreshments in the office
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