QA Automation Engineer

Location: At the moment, many of us are working remotely. However, we have an office in New York, and this position can be based in the office, hybrid remote or fully remote within US (subject to your existing legal right to work in either jurisdiction). Our strong preference is that this role sits within the EST or CST zones. This role will be required to work EST hours and support cross over with our UK team.

About OpenFin

OpenFin is a fast-growing financial technology company backed by the world’s largest banks and most respected Fintech VCs, including J.P. Morgan, Barclays, HSBC, Wells Fargo, SC Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, DRW, Nyca Partners, and Pivot Investment Partners. OpenFin modernizes and democratizes app development and distribution in the finance space. We provide a secure OS that brings a fast and intuitive app experience to the financial desktop. Built on Google’s Chromium and GitHub’s Electron open source projects, OpenFin combines native experience, data sharing, lightning-fast distribution, and robust security with an agile web development and deployment model to accelerate digital transformation and innovation. OpenFin is used by thousands of developers to deploy and run more than 3500 apps at more than 2400 financial institutions.

About the Role

OpenFin’s QA team is seeking an individual with technical expertise and quality assurance know-how to transform OpenFin’s testing infrastructure. As part of the team you’ll partner with our engineers to build and maintain a testing suite that ensures stability, durability and efficiency across all our products. In this role, you will have the ability to influence decisions and drive the direction of OpenFin’s Quality Assurance activities across development and the QA teams.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Engineers and other QA Automation Engineers to review new application features and devise appropriate automated testing strategies prior to development
• Architect and develop robust, scalable and high quality automation testing solutions for functional, regression and performance testing for OpenFin software (Desktop for Mac and Windows)
• Contribute to a quality engineering practice that thrives in finding problems before our users do and that finds innovative ways to break systems
• Form cross-functional partnerships with engineers and product managers to identify production quality solutions to improve scalability, resilience, reliability, consistency and performance
• Identify gaps in automated testing process (unit, integration, etc) and devise ways to close them 

What We're Looking For

• 3- 6 years of software development or heavy QA automation experience across Desktop and web based software
• Experience in testing complex API based or Engineer targeted products.
• Exposure to Cyress (preferred), Mocha, Python, Selenium, Puppeteer, Jest and other best in class testing frameworks
• Substantial experience with TypeScript, JavaScript front-end frameworks (React, Next.js, etc), Node
• Excellent knowledge in building, maintaining and executing automated test harnesses
• Experience with Windows & Mac desktop applications and web front-end testing
• Quality first mindset, reliable self-starter, solutions-oriented individual with attention to detail
• Excellent analytical thinking, oral and written communication skills with agile ability to influence peers

Life at OpenFin

At OpenFin, our mission is to stay on the cutting edge of web technologies and to enable our customers to do the same. We pride ourselves on our friendly, diverse, understanding and supportive culture. Our goal is to create a space where employees can learn and innovate, and overall, have a good time doing it. We value and appreciate that our employees have a wide set of interests and experiences. Getting to know each other and forming relationships is important, which is why we regularly host offsite events, happy hours and virtual social hours, in addition to having a variety of Employee Resource Groups to participate in. Our environment is conducive to a productive and enjoyable learning experience -- aligned together, moving fast and working to create compelling solutions for our clients. 

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