Position: Automation QA Engineer
Company: Virtido
Experience required: 3y
English level: intermediate

**About Virtido**



Virtido is an entrepreneurial and innovative IT company headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. We realize ideas and projects - from strategic concept to technical implementation closely alongside our dynamic clients with a strong focus on start-up or fast-growing companies. Since inception in 2015, we have grown rapidly to currently 100+ professionals in Switzerland and Western-Ukraine.



 

**About our Client**



Our client is a technology start-up company that improves the global food value chain. They provide professional services for industrial food production sites through a global crowd service platform, using smart real-time technologies to match service technicians and customers. Services provided to customers are ranging from inspections and maintenance to repairs and spare parts as well as specific data-based services. Service technicians in the field are digitally enabled along the whole process through mobile and cloud technology.



Our client is looking for an Automation QA Engineer to join our professional and committed development team that creates and maintains state-of-the-art web applications as well as mobile apps. 



 

**Ideal profile**



- Strong analytical skills, ability to understand business domains / processes and map them to technical workflows
- Strong engineering skills, understanding of common architecture approaches (monolithic, microservices) and distributed systems
- Experience in planning tests, reporting bugs, developing & executing functional and non-functional tests
- Experience in developing automated tests and quality infrastructure 
- Strong in creating specifications based on business input, preparing edge and test cases
- Ability to take an active part and a leading role in planning and specification
- Experience in JavaScript automation
- Experience with databases (preferably PostgreSQL)
- Experience with REST APIs, Selenium, Jenkins, Git
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and other infrastructure is a plus
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.


 

**Upcoming projects**                                                                       



Our client’s goal is to establish a web application as a platform for their customer and service partners to order and orchestrate service products.
For every participant/user they want a suitable web app or mobile app to communicate with the backend. They want to start with a mobile app for supervisors to coordinate teams.
Their technology stack is based on Vue.js, Javascript on front-end, with nginx/node.js as backend, integrated (currently) with various SAP systems through the newest Kyma (kubernetes cloud). As for the mobile framework Flutter or Nativescript is being discussed.
They believe in simplicity and elegance to create attractive and responsive interfaces.


 

**Your role in our team**



- You work on our client’s newest strategic projects with short development iterations
- You are part of a small, cross-functional team where everyone has a voice
- You collaborate with the customer and development team to ensure the high-quality of our software solution.


 

**What we offer**



- Medical insurance.
- Flexible working hours. 
- Ability to work from home 20% of your time.
- 25 business days of fully paid annual leave, 10 business days of fully paid sick leave (annual).
- Courses of English and German.
- Comfortable and friendly environment at the office.


 

We look forward to receiving your application!