Bango enables content providers to reach more paying customers through global partnerships. Bango revolutionized the monetization of digital content and services, by opening-up online payments to mobile phone users worldwide.
Today, the Digital Vending Machine® is driving the rapid growth of the subscriptions economy, powering choice and control for subscribers.
The world’s largest content providers, including Amazon, Google and Microsoft trust Bango technology to reach subscribers everywhere.
Bango, where people subscribe.
Role
At Bango, the QA Engineer is responsible for championing the day-to-day QA activities required within an Engineering team. This includes driving test analysis, the creation, maintenance, and execution of automated test suites, and performing manual exploratory testing of new releases and bug fixes where required. The QA Engineer is responsible for promoting a quality focus within their team and helping to drive a culture of continuous improvement in quality and automation, aligned with Bango’s QA Strategy.
Responsibilities
- Promoting quality early in the development process, encouraging a “shift-left” mindset to the team’s way of working.
- Create, maintain, and execute automated tests to support agile software development and in line with the automation strategy.
- Run exploratory and usability tests using a range of test tooling.
- Contribute to and promote both the best practices of the QA team and Bango’s QA strategy.
- Influence your team on best approaches to testing, guiding design of development test automation suites.
- Analyse upcoming work to create appropriate testing plans.
- Promote an automation-first and quality-driven development mindset across the teams.
Essentials
- Experience with open-source test automation tools (for example, JUnit, Pact, Cucumber, etc.); building automated functional regression test suites.
- Experience of test automation in programming languages (Python, Java, Golang).
- Experience in testing APIs, REST & SOAP Web services.
- Experience with Postman, Hoppscotch or similar API testing tools.
- Good analytical mind – problem solving skills; on your own or brainstorming with colleagues.
- Good investigatory skills – able to find, outline and fix issues that arise in complex microservice deployments.
- Strong communication skills, both spoken and written - to talk about your work with both technical and non-technical people.
- Ability and enthusiasm to learn new technologies and techniques.
- Working experience in Agile development teams and understanding of development processes and concepts.
- Experience with development collaboration and tracking tools such as Jira, Confluence.
- Able to influence and manage internal stakeholders to ensure customer objectives are understood and met.
- Able to manage your own time and handle multi-task delivery, working to short timescales.
Desirables
- Experience of test automation in scripting languages (TypeScript).
- Experience in BDD test approaches.
- Knowledge of ETL and Data Warehouses.
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.
- Good knowledge of CI/CD pipelines using GitLab or similar.
- Experience of load and performance testing (for example, using JMeter, Gatling, etc.).
Benefits
- A friendly, informal working environment
- Your own Bango buddy – to help you settle in
- Bendi-time (flexible working hours)
- Bango social events
- Choose your own headphones, keyboard & mouse
- Generous share option scheme
- Private Medical Insurance
- Health Cash Plan
- 25 days holiday a year increasing to 28 days with 4 years’ service
- Cycle to work, gym discount
- Weekly Pilates & Yoga classes (virtual)
- Financial support for employee activity groups and charitable activities
- Free fruit, drinks and snacks, limitless tea, coffee and good quality espressos
- Company branded hoodie… to keep you happy and comfortable
- Group personal pension scheme
- Life assurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- 1Password
- Income Protection
- Bango branded Chilly’s bottle and coffee cup
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