Senior QA Engineer - Oikotie

THE OPPORTUNITY IN A NUTSHELL

You? Experience with automation & integration testing, knowledge of a cloud environment. Eagerness to lead QA processes, develop testing practices & discover new testing trends and tools. Growth & curious mindset, willingness to explore and have an impact.
Role? Leading QA processes of the Oikotie Core Services & Integrations team and supporting the development of Oikotie: ramping up and developing our test automation, especially around E2E, API & integration tests.
Tech stack? NodeJS, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Jest. Containerised & serverless environments run in AWS.
Location? We work in a remote/hybrid way so you can be based anywhere in Finland! Currently, our squad is spread between Helsinki, Tampere, Lappeenranta, Seinäjoki & Oulu. If you like, our office is there for you just a few steps away from the Helsinki railway station.
Why us? You like to stick to routines or maybe you’re more into a variety of tasks? With us, your playground is tailorable to your wishes! Development is constantly present in our community and you’re heard when planning the future. Benefits include among others an extra week of holiday, lunch benefit on top of your salary and flexible working hours and spots!

Sounds like your cup of tea? Check out the details below!

WHO ARE YOU?

• Background in quality assurance with automation & integration testing in a cloud environment.

• Experience using automation testing tools , for example, Cypress or Jest.

• We’d be very excited if you would have or be interested in security matters and if you were able to read the code or even do some hands-on coding. No worries though if these aren’t part of your toolbox yet, we’ll learn together!

• Ability to work in English. Our official language is English and we gather people together from multiple backgrounds (memes in Spanish, Indian cooking recipes, database parodies, and dog videos circulate on our Slack channels!).

• As a person , you are a curious problem-solver with a growth mindset and aren’t afraid of the unknown and nuts to crack. On top of that, you possess a win-it-together attitude and a willingness to spread your expertise with the whole team of developers. Here’s a motivated, development-oriented bunch of positive thinkers waiting for you to share the journey!

WHAT’S THE JOB LIKE?

Day-to-day work & products
You’re the main contributor to the quality assurance of our team. We work on Oikotie’s Core Services & Integrations (among colleagues we’re the CSI squad) which keep our business running smoothly and B2C, B2B as well as internal clients happy. If our piece of code would be missing, new home selling/renting or job ads wouldn’t find their way to Oikotie, Oikotie users wouldn’t be able to log in, push notifications wouldn’t be working properly and billing wouldn’t be in place. So to say, Oikotie would be coughing without our secret service squad!

The platform is undergoing a major modernisation so your main focus is on ramping up our test automation as well as taking care of integration testing of the newly developed features. At the moment, we’re on a mission to get all our testing (E2E, integration & unit-tests) to be automated and as a part of our CI/CD pipeline. Your goal is to make that happen and to ensure the high quality of our production code.

On top of that, you’re a part of the 7 member development team working closely with developers and we’re eagerly waiting for you to co-operate by actively discussing and reporting any quality issues developers encounter. Furthermore, as a solo QA Engineer in the team, you’re aligning our testing practices with two QA colleagues working on Oikotie Työpaikat and Asunnot and developing our common QA practices. How we strengthen Oikotie CSI’s QA processes is up to you! You are encouraged to take ownership and introduce new practices.

Tech stack
We’re currently transitioning our legacy stack to a more modern one. In general, our technologies in use are NodeJS, Typescript, PostgreSQL, PHP, Vue.js, GitHub (+Actions). Our containerised & serverless environments run on AWS and are managed with Terraform and AWS tools such as CodePipeline & CodeBuild.

Developers have done some nice features where the testing is taken into the development cycle and release is done just after proper test coverage is established. Thus, you can be assured that your developer colleagues really appreciate your work and are willing to take you along when developing something new. At the same time, we want you to be capable of cooperating with the developers and not fear of half-made features.

Not everything is sweet, so here’s the main opportunity to improve
We’ve made baby steps forward in test automation but there’s still a long way ahead. At this moment, we don’t have a baseline for automation, so as a QA engineer you’re invited to come and create it! You’ve the freedom to decide the best ways of elevating & developing test automation while contributing to the implementation of your great ideas. This brings along a great opportunity to lead our QA practices & leave your fingerprints on our quality standards! Are you ready to take ownership of the process?

Goals
During your first six months, we expect you to get on board, settle in the team, gradually take over your role and form an understanding of the tech used & our ways of working. You’re curiously driven further to get an understanding of how things work & fit together in order to be more risk-aware and precise in the testing.

Further down the road, approximately after 12 months, we’re eager to see you standing on your own (we’re here to have your back!). You develop a QA ownership, have a clear picture of the current situation, are able to compare, assess & propose to implement QA tools and solutions. You have complete freedom to make decisions on the tools, practices and the future of QA! What comes after that, let’s envision it together!

Colleagues
Development Manager Miro, Product Manager Mona and a bunch of very experienced developers: Jaakko, Juha, Jussi, Olli, Pekka & Pepe (not forgetting the rest of our 90p tech community) are eagerly waiting for your first day! There is a lot of experience within the squad and we’re always ready to share our knowledge and polish our skills.

How do we collaborate? We like to win it together, thus we plan and prioritise together, discuss and decide technical details and then focus on implementation. Everyone works both independently and as a part of the team, so you can count on us to receive help and also support others when needed. When it comes to aspects outside of our expertise such as design, there’re specialists available in cross-functional teams to give a helping hand.

Company
Schibsted, product company, gathering together Oikotie, Tori & Rakentaja reaching +4M users monthly. Over 250 colleagues in Finland and 5500 in the Nordics want to steer innovation on News media, Marketplaces & Growth adventures to empower the millions of people interacting with us in their daily lives. We’re lucky to work with colleagues who share the passion for their work, are friendly and caring. Our community embraces curiosity, teamwork, a problem-solving mindset, and continuous learning. Have a sneak peek at our boogie on LinkedIn & Instagram and get to know the Schibsted Tech & Shetech Communities along with the Schibsted Talks podcast hosted by our very own colleagues.

GOT YOUR ATTENTION? Let us hear from you!
If you are looking for a workplace and a role in which you could share your knowledge and expertise, learn and grow, get inspired, be yourself, and feel good, let us hear from you! We’re eagerly waiting for you to turn yourself in by Sunday, August 14. Don’t worry if there’s no reply from us straight away, we’ll reach out once we’re back from our summer vacations during the second week of August ☀️

ANY QUESTIONS?
Your supervisor and our Development Manager of the CSI teamMiro Sundholm (miro.sundholm(at)schibsted.com), is happy to tell you about the daily work and answer any questions you might have about the position.

RECRUITMENT PROCESS?
1. 45 min chat with the Talent Acquisition Lead Venla (your background & goals in short, Schibsted as an employer)
2. 45 min meeting with Miro, the hiring manager (get to know each other, role goals & expectations, your background & skills)
3. 75 min technical interview with a few colleagues from the team (get to know each other & the daily work and understand your skillset better)
4. 45 min chat with the Head of Engineering Pasi (our tech’s future)

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