About Scrapinghub:

Founded in 2010, Scrapinghub is a fast growing and diverse technology business turning web content into useful data with a cloud-based web crawling platform, off-the-shelf datasets, and turn-key web scraping services.

We’re a globally distributed team of over 180 Shubbers working from over 30 countries who are passionate about scraping, web crawling, and data science.

About the Job:

As a Test Engineer in the Product department at Scrapinghub, you will be ultimately responsible for testing integral elements of our product offering in order to ensure that they are functional and in line with the marketable quality that our customer base expects on a consistent basis. This will of course be especially useful as we conduct versioning on each product; the role will require someone who can test new features and ensure bugs have been correctly resolved as part of each release.

You will thrive in this role if you enjoy ensuring that a suite of products maintains a high level of quality when it comes to serving a globally diverse clientbase.

Due to business requirements, only candidates based in Europe will be considered.

Responsibilities:

• Take ownership of the end-to-end QA process for Scrapinghub platform components such as Crawlera, Scrapy Cloud, and AutoExtract.
• Collaborate effectively with Head of QA, Project/Product Managers, and Developers to understand platform and product features.
• Distill product requirements and documentation into test specifications to ensure broad and deep test coverage.
• Understand what an appropriate test/staging environment will look like; work with the relevant internal stakeholders to build this out.
• Using a combination of initially manual and semi-automated techniques, test both the usability and the correct functioning of existing and new product components including but not limited to: internal and customer-facing dashboards, email integrations, billing and payment integration, analytics, etc.
• Create comprehensive, reproducible bug reports.
• Define clear, unambiguous acceptance/release criteria that dovetail with your test specifications.
• For new features, be able to answer the question “We built the thing right, but did we build the right thing?” before signing off any release.
• Know which tests should remain manual in nature, while looking for opportunities to fully automate some aspects of the testing; work with Head of QA to make this happen.
• Beyond test automation, proactively make improvements to QA methodologies by employing other technologies and tools.

Requirements

• 2+ years of relevant experience in Technical Product QA, ideally of SaaS offerings.
• Demonstrable experience testing HTTP APIs, web front ends, and backend integrations.
• Demonstrable test automation experience, preferably with Python.
• Solid grasp of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes.
• Experience with issue tracking systems such as JIRA, Redmine, or similar.
• Excellent level of written and spoken English; confident communicator; able to communicate on both technical and non-technical levels with various stakeholders on all matters QA.
• Experience writing basic to intermediate SQL queries.
• Good understanding of web frontend technologies.
• Eager to learn in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.

Bonus points for:

• Experience working remotely and managing asynchronous communication.
• Experience with G Suite, Confluence, Jira, Salesforce, Intercom, Xero, Chargebee, Grafana, especially CB & testing billing platforms e.g Stripe.
• Experience with UI, API, and Functional test tools such as Selenium, Capybara, Citrus, JMeter, Postman, or similar.
• Experience with Product QA specifically as it pertains to web scraping.

Benefits

As a new Shubber, you will:

• Become part of a self-motivated, progressive, multi-cultural team.
• Have the freedom and flexibility to work from where you do your best work.
• Attend conferences and meet with team members from across the globe.
• Work with cutting-edge open source technologies and tools.
• Receive paid time off
• Enrol in Scrapinghub's Share Option Programme