About the team:

- We work in cross-functional, autonomous teams. We follow continuous delivery best practices executed on top of a modern technology stack. 
- Our products are built for developers, by developers. Technological excellence is at the heart of what we do.  
- We are pragmatic and customer focused. We strive to find the right set of trade-offs in order to validate our hypothesis as early as possible, iterating on our products based on customer feedback. 
- We communicate transparently. We do weekly all hands where we get together to discuss company performance and goals.
- We are a flexible international team focused on creating cool stuff. Some of us prefer to work together in one of our offices and others prefer remote. For us there's no difference as long as you have an excellent internet connection and are able to overlap with the team between 3pm and 6pm, CEST timezone. 
- Also we are backed by some of the leading investors in Silicon Valley and Latin America, including Founders Fund, Kaszek Ventures and YCombinator

Your challenge:

This is our first QA engineering hire at belvo. As such, this role will be largely in charge of shaping the way we do QA. We're looking for an experienced individual able to define processes from the ground up, and scale them as the company grows. We're a developer-oriented, API-first company. QA at Belvo will entail working with APIs, SDKs, libraries and other infrastructure and integration-oriented software.

- Define the entire QA process to launch new services both internally and to our clients. Advocate for their adoption, document them, train fellow engineers and look after the effectiveness of their implementation.
- Define quality acceptance criteria for the release process
- Lead and implement the testing roadmap to optimize the automation of our testing capabilities
- Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases collaborating with product management and the wider engineering team.
- Design, and coordinate the development and execution automation scripts.
- 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 (engineering and product) to identify system requirements
- Define and track quality assurance metrics
- Stay up-to-date with new testing tools and test strategies

You can be part of the gang if:

- Have 3+ years relevant QA experience in a developer-focused company
- You have a technical background in Computer Science or similar. You might not be programming full time, but you’re able to develop autonomously any code needed to configure a test harness, connect with third-party tools and services, and implement full-on testing automation suites.
- You have worked in fast-paced or startup environment working with Agile methodologies
- You are familiar with the use of modern source control and CI/CD
- You have experience building automated tests on distributed architectures
- Have a user-first attitude and analyze data to make sure our product meets the client requirements
- Team spirit; strong communication skills to collaborate with various stakeholders

Amazing if:

- Previous experience in FinTech or Financial Services
- Experience testing documentation
- You are familiar with Python and Docker
- You have knowledge about performance testing

Our tech stack:

- We're building our platform using modern technologies, putting the focus on reliability and long-term maintainability
- We primarily use Python on the backend. We use battle-tested technologies such as Django, and we are heavy users of Python's asyncio for some parts of our stack
- We use Javascript, Vue.js and Sass on the frontend. We are developing and leveraging our own design system and component library.
- We run our infrastructure on top of Amazon Web Services, leveraging managed services. We tend to favor the use of managed services wherever possible, in order to focus on our business problems
- We observe and monitor our services using Datadog
- We follow Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery best practices
- You have knowledge about performance testing

Our perks:

🏄1.8km from the beach
🚀Stock options (we are all owners and this is very important to us)
🔆Flexible working hours
🔝Remote friendly
🍎Gym discount. Meals, transport and kindergarden via flexible compensation scheme
🎊Paid time off on your birthday
🍒 Fresh fruit every week, all-you-can-drink tea and coffee
🍻Friday happy hours after our weekly team meetings
🙋Training Budget
😎Team building events
 
Salary Range: €32,000 to €40,000 gross/annual + Equity