Middle QA Automation Engineer

About the role

We’re on the search for a motivated and highly experienced QA Automation Engineer ready to join our QA team in building and supporting our Plytix PIM. Our QA team is based in Malaga, but if you code your best from the comfort of your own home or even from a different city—the location doesn’t matter, you do!

What is Plytix?

This is where you’d typically see a long paragraph of boring text that no one reads, peppered with corporate buzzwords that don’t mean anything. But Plytix is no typical company, so we’ll spare you that. Instead, watch this video, and if you like what you see, keep scrolling.

What´s the opportunity?

This is your chance to play a part in building a leading multichannel platform, while working with diverse talent and innovative technology. You’ll have the opportunity to contribute to the growth of an ever-expanding scale-up with your ideas and coding experience.

What will you be doing?

A day in the life of a Plytix Quality Assurance Engineer is an exciting one. You’ll be collaborating on compelling challenges, like taking an active role in Automation Testing designs. Your days will be filled with making sure that the platform is scalable and robust. You’ll need to ensure code is implemented, following the latest design patterns and best practices, to accomplish functional and non-functional benchmarks. You’ll have scrum ceremonies to stay on the same page as your fellow developers and QA, from retrospective meetings to sprint planning. All in all, you’ll be a busy bee. But don’t worry, there’s always time to crack open a beer and have fun!

After 1 month:

You’ll have a good understanding of our favorite tools and processes. You’ll be involved in QA activities while learning about the testing process throughout the development life cycle. You’ll begin reviewing the status of test automation and help define functional automated tests on our platform.

After 3 months:

Now you’re becoming a true Plytix QA, guiding the automation strategy. You're planning with your colleagues the automation testing strategy and working more independently. You still have some supervision, but at this point, you are comfortable with what you are doing. You are participating in sprints and beginning to integrate well into the team workflow.

6 months in:

You’re an important team player. You work as well (and as fast) as any other team member! You’re collaborating with other departments to find the best possible solutions so that our system is the best on the market. You’re developing and creating functional automatic tests with high-quality code and quick execution. By now you are confident in your role, reviewing and code-approving other quality engineers (always following our standards, of course!).

Who will you be working with?

You'll be working closely with our other Quality Engineers to deliver software with high-quality standards. You'll be collaborating with developers, product specialists (they’ll help you define functional and non-functional requirements releases), and the tech team.

If you’re curious about what it's like working at our office, take a peek into what Plytix has to offer (you know you want to ????).

We expect you to:

Understand functional specifications according to customer needs
Have a strong knowledge of automation frameworks for UI (Cypress) and API (Postman)
Understand the Software Development Life Cycle process
Implement best practices for QA Automation—including refactoring of large existing test suite
Have programming skills in automated tests technologies: Javascript, Typescript, Gherkin/Cucumber or similar
Be an expert in handling QA automation projects
Perform analyses, research, and interpretation of business requirements to document technical requirements and develop technical specifications
Handling any CI/CD tool (Gitlab is a plus)
Recommend CI/CD enhancements to measure and increase quality
Communicate and/or collaborate with the functional/technical team members to coordinate testing efforts in support of one or more applications/systems

Nice to have:

Being familiarized with Agile methodologies
REST Assured API experience
A good working knowledge of Unit Testing and TDD practices.
Performance and load testing knowledge (tools, development and procedures)
Container orchestration knowledge (docker, kubernetes)
Contract testing understanding

Why work at Plytix?

Be a part of a welcoming culture with bright, friendly people from around the world
Have a purpose and plenty of opportunities to grow from day one
Work from home or from our offices in the center of Malaga
Competitive full-time salary (*the amount will be determined based on experience)
Flexible working hours and unlimited remote days
Catered, free lunches and unlimited ice cream when working from the office
Sodexo Flexible Retribution (Restaurant & Nursery Vouchers)
More perks (differs depending on which office you belong to)
Don’t work on your birthday—enjoy an extra day of paid time off

About our culture

At Plytix, we don't have boring mission statements and corporate values that no one reads.
We operate from a simple guiding principle that's easy to remember:

"Don't be a jerk, don't hold back, and don't forget to have fun."

At Plytix, we offer equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sectors of society. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation or gender identity.

About us

We’re a next-generation SaaS scale-up that builds PIM software for the retail industry. Our name, Plytix, is short for Product Analytics—we started as an ecommerce analytics tool in 2015.

Since then, we’ve grown to be one of the leading Product Information Management (PIM) tools. It’s the only PIM system specially made (and priced!) for small to medium-sized ecommerce. It’s a single source of truth that helps teams manage and syndicate product information at scale, allowing you to get your products to market faster and smarter—regardless of the channel.

As far as the brains behind the software go, we’re a tight-knit team of passionate, data-driven individuals based here, there, and everywhere in the world! We’re also recognized for our outstanding customer care and employee culture, making us a Great Place To Work in 2021 & 2022.