Position: Automation Engineer / Head Of Quality Assurance (Java)
Company: Carmoola
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Carmoola is a new and innovative UK Fintech company, focused on providing consumers with a best-in-class experience, lower cost and flexible car payments. Carmoola is led by an experienced founding team that has raised over £24M in funding from leading VC’s in the past. We value people who want to grow, love to be trusted, enjoy a joke and don’t bullsh**t. Carmoola is now looking to build out the team in preparation for launch later this year.

JOB DESCRIPTION

MAIN PURPOSE OF ROLE:

We are looking to recruit a talented individual to take responsibility for setting up a holistic automation testing approach, building a testing framework, testing processes and test suits for our consumer lending platform. As a first and key QA Automation hire at the early stage of our startup company, you’ll have an opportunity to set up everything from scratch across various challenging tech domains: consumer mobile app product, automated data-driven credit risk decision engine, fraud mitigation, loan management & operations system and many other areas that our company is evolving.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Working closely with engineering teams, Head of Product, and CTO to build out automation processes and tests for the backend of our end-to-end automated lending platform
- Hands-on engineering of test framework and test suits
- Being responsible for the quality assurance function in the company, gaining a deep understanding of platform functionality, requirements, and risks
- Managing and mentoring other QA staff that will be joining in future

COMPETENCIES REQUIRED FOR EFFECTIVE PERFORMANCE

Skills & Knowledge:
- Proven track record and ability to build quality assurance function and automation from scratch, 5+ years into engineering
- Java skills, test frameworks and ecosystem knowledge
- Continuous delivery best practices skills
- DevOps and infrastructure skills would be a plus
- Prior Fintech or related domain experience would be a plus

Attitude:
- Product mindset and ambitions to build an amazing next-level consumer-facing product
- Ability to solve complex and non-trivial problems
- Positive attitude
- Driven
- Proactive

WHAT WE OFFER:
- Competitive salary
- Opportunity to build the next-generation consumer lender product from scratch with cutting edge tech
- All the benefits of an early-stage joiner: zero overheads, fast decisions, and rapid growth
- The environment in which you are part of the decision process and make a meaningful impact
- Awesome, senior and friendly team (all engineers co-located in Lviv including CTO)
- 4 weeks of paid vacation and 2 weeks of sick leaves

Note: this is not a remote role and requires presence in Lviv.