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**Hello there!**\n\nDo you have a soft spot for bootstrapped, profitable companies with a meaningful, globally utilised product? Would you like to work within a small, super-capable technical team in a refreshing work environment? Would you like to work on an application that is changing the way we learn and communicate? You might just be the perfect fit for our new QA Automation Engineer opportunity here at Drops!\n\n**About us**\n\nOur goal at Drops is to ensure effective language learning through a delightful, seamless, gamified experience. We strive to be the #1 app for vocabulary learning and weโre very much on the way there! Our app has been live on the App Store for over 3 years, covering 37 languages, serving 20 million users across the globe and has been featured on both the App Store and Play Store multiple times. We were super chuffed to be awarded โApp of the Year 2018โ by Google on the Play Store and have been featured by TechCrunch, FastCo, Forbes, CNN, Bloomberg, VentureBeat and many more. In short, weโre a small, efficient team spread mostly across Europe, achieving great things the remote way! Our founders, Dani & Mark, are involved in everyday implementation, strategy and support, working with the team on innovative ideas to shift the needle in the language learning space.\n\nCheck us out and see what you think: http://drops.app.link/\n\n**What makes us different**\n\n* Weโre a small team. We optimise for impact, not headcount. \n* We carefully consider tradeoffs in technology and processes that could lead to increased complexity.\n* We live the TypeScript life. We strive for code quality over quantity and stick to a simple development process, spending more time creating and less time in admin.\n* We use React Native on the frontend, sharing around 98% of the code between Android, iOS and Web. We use Typescript on the backend too!\n* Weโre believers in functional programming. We concentrate state, minimise side effects and abstract when necessary.\n* We automate where there is a logical business case to do so..\n* Our biggest challenge is managing the complexity of sharing code across a suite of apps.\n* We donโt believe in hierarchy. Autonomy, ownership and passion are the secret ingredients behind Drops. Clear, honest communication is the linchpin of our culture, success and independence.\n\n**What are we looking for?**\n\nWeโre looking to expand our QA team with an inquisitive, forward thinking automation engineer to support our development team across a suite of Drops apps. Youโll be responsible for automating tests in key areas of the applications. From golden path to intrinsic gameplay functionality, youโll be looking to guarantee quality and keep regression at bay!\n\nYou should have a strong foundation in testing, experienced and knowledgeable in both automation and manual practices. You can prioritise workload and are skilled at finding bugs others have difficulty spotting, writing automation test scripts from a blank canvas where appropriate.\n\n\n# Responsibilities\n
* Youโll be contributing to our (brand new!) automation suite across our apps.\n* Youโll be making sure that the technical aspects of our QA stack are up to date and using best practices. \n* Youโll be mentoring other QA team members.\n* Youโll be working closely with the development team, investigating and solving issues while optimising workflows.\n* You will be involved in decision making within the QA and product domain.\n* Weโre looking for a missionary, not a mercenary. \n\n# Requirements\n* You can see a problem from the product, development, and userโ perspective.\n* You have great hard skills but even better soft skills.\n* Youโre competent in contemporary JS based QA technologies and toolsets (Cypress, Cucumber/Behave feature files, AWS; S3, Lambda, RDS, Cognito).\n* Youโve got hands on experience with CI tooling (Jenkins, BuildKite, Bitrise, etc).\n* Youโve got experience in api, load and security testing.\n* Youโve worked within an agile development team.\n* You know when to manually test and when to automate.\n* Youโre Proficient in testing practices such as BDD, TDD and competent in declarative testing.\n* Youโre able to identify priorities and application hotspots for testing.\n* You have introspective tendencies and are looking for a position where you can grow, fast.\n \n\nPlease mention the words **ANNOUNCE FLOOR DRILL** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMy4yMzUuMTM5LjEyMg==). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n
No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to JavaScript, Quality Assurance, Python, Engineer, React and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n
$62,500 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Location\nEurope
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