Software Engineer in Test

LearnUpon is looking for a Software Engineer in Test to join our team in Belgrade. 

LearnUpon LMS helps organizations train their employees, partners, and customers. Businesses can manage, track, and achieve their unique learning goals — all through a single, powerful solution.

With offices in Dublin (our HQ), Belgrade, Philadelphia, Salt Lake City and Sydney, we are a global team with lots of diverse cultures, backgrounds, and experiences that puts our customers' experience at the heart of everything we do. Our culture fosters an open, collaborative and supportive environment where our accomplishments are celebrated and encouraged. We're always striving for the best solution (not the easy one). We’re proud of our success and we’re humble and hungry to achieve more. 

As a Software Engineer in Test in our Platform Engineering group, you will be responsible for delivering high quality UI and API automation, Security & Performance tests within one of our agile engineering teams along with working as an automation team on maintaining frameworks and tooling and bringing new ideas to the team. 

You’ll be participating in the development of a scalable, best-in-class LMS and you’ll strengthen the great company culture that we have in LearnUpon.

What will I be doing?

• Develop and execute UI and API test automation scripts with the goal of shortening the software development lifecycle and increasing test coverage by automating regression testing
• Bake in a culture of quality and shifting test automation left within your engineering team
• Contribute to planning within your team by working with Engineers and Product to agree priorities, estimates and deliver fully tested scripts within agreed timelines
• Help identify acceptance criteria for features being worked on and determine priorities for test automation to balance operational efficiency with sufficient test coverage
• Help develop new features for our growing platform with quality built in by collaborating with engineering, product and design
• Where tests fail, investigate the root cause of the failure using tools such as DataDog and browser dev tools, and raise defects where appropriate
• Help us move towards a continuous delivery model by collaborating with our DevOps & tooling teams, suggesting areas of improvement around testing, pipelines, tooling and overall process
• Contribute to the Automation function within Platform Engineering by adhering to and suggesting improvements for coding standards and automation processes and tooling
• Actively improve the level of craftsmanship in our tooling and frameworks

What skills do I need?                                                                              

• 2+ years of experience in test automation with experience in frameworks and languages such as RobotFramework, Playwright, Selenium, Python, JavaScript and Ruby
• Able to effectively communicate technical ideas and collaborate with both technical and non-technical peers
• Experience working in an Agile-focused environment
• Experience with UI and API test automation and best practices
• Good understanding of CICD and how test automation fits into this
• Experience using continuous integration systems like GitLab, Jenkins, CircleCI
• Experience with test management, bug tracking and agile tools e.g. Jira, Test Rail, Confluence or other similar
• Experience working on multi tenant SaaS platforms with an understanding of application architecture of the products you previously worked on
• Excellent communication skills, team player

Don’t worry if you don’t tick every box in order to apply, we’re always happy to review applications and take all experience into consideration. We do our best to provide feedback where we can!

Not required but considered a plus

• Exposure to containerised development environments such as Docker or Kubernetes
• Previous experience using Python and Robot Framework specifically is an advantage
• Previous experience of eLearning technologies
• Previous experience with performance testing using tools such as Locust or JMeter is an advantage

Why work with us?

• Competitive salary and company ESOP
• 25 days annual leave + 1 annual company wellness day off
• Work in a fun and supportive environment with regular team events
• Excellent career progression - take LearnUpon where you think it can go

 What is the Hiring Process?

Applicants for the position can expect the following hiring process:

• Qualified applicants will be invited to schedule a 30-minute call
• Successful candidates will then be invited to complete a short technical task
• Successful candidates will then be invited to a series of practical interviews
• Finally, candidates will have a short interview with a member of our C-Suite team
• Successful candidates will be contacted with an offer to join our team

LearnUpon is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of gender, marital status, family status, age disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, membership of the Traveller community, or any other legally protected status.

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