QA Engineer (API)

Winding Tree has several APIs, sandbox environments, and other backend tools. We need to make sure that they don't break that often. So, there should be someone who'd monitor the health of these things, via automated tests, monitoring, etc. Are you up to the task?

Responsibilities:

• Review requirements, specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback
• Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases
• Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities
• Design, develop and execute automation scripts using open source tools
• Identify, record, document thoroughly and track bugs 
• Perform thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved 
• Develop and apply testing processes for new and existing products to meet client needs 
• Liaise with internal teams (e.g. developers and product managers) to identify system requirements 
• Monitor debugging process results Investigate the causes of non-conforming software and train users to implement solutions 
• Track quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and open defect counts 
• Stay up-to-date with new testing tools and test strategies

Requirements: 

• Proven work experience in software development 
• Proven work experience in software quality assurance 
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes 
• Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases 
• Hands-on experience with both white box and black box testing 
• Hands-on experience with automated testing tools Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting 
• Experience with performance and/or security testing is a plus
• Ability to communicate in English written and spoken 
• Experience interacting with the Ethereum blockchain is a plus
• Knowledge of financial APIs such as Stripe, Transferwise and other major API providers is a plus