QA Engineer (Manual & Automation)

 
About AlphaPoint: 
AlphaPoint is a financial technology company powering digital asset exchanges and brokerages worldwide. Through its secure, scalable, and customizable white label digital asset trading platform, AlphaPoint has enabled over 150 customers in 35 countries to launch and operate digital asset markets, as well as digitize assets. AlphaPoint and its award winning blockchain technology have helped startups and institutions discover and execute their blockchain strategies since 2013. 
AlphaPoint is seeking a talented QA Engineer to perform both manual and automation testing. This role will be responsible for analyzing the functionality of applications and designing automated tests to validate their performance. The QA Engineer will also be required to identify bugs, install databases, and collaborate with the software design team. This role plays a vital part in delivering high quality and highly efficient software, web, and mobile applications to customers and users.
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Job Description:
QA Engineer Responsibilities:

• Manual and automated testing of our front end, backend, and mobile apps
• Review requirements, specifications, and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback
• Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities with the internal development and product team
• Identify, record, track, and report on defects found
• Perform thorough regression testing prior to releases
• Collaborate with developers to refine and optimize API functionality
• Execute exploratory testing to uncover edge cases and optimize system performance
• Automate API testing workflows and integrate them into CI/CD pipelines
• Troubleshoot and resolve automation test failures in the pipelines

Basic requirements:
 

• 5+ years of experience in developing, and maintaining automated test solutions with a focus on API testing
• Experience with scoping, sizing and overseeing multiple concurrent projects, assessing the appropriate level of risk-based testing, and reviewing team deliverables
• Ability of working and multiple projects and releases, balancing time and effort for successful delivery 
• Must have experience with Postman and managing collections
• Knowledgeable with various testing frameworks: Selenium, Cucumber, Jest, Mocha
• Full Understanding of WebSocket, REST and JSON
• Understanding of Software Testing Fundamentals
• Understanding and practical knowledge of CI/CD 
• Experience with Jira and Confluence
• Experience with Node.JS, C#
• Good understanding of relational databases
• Team player with strong collaborative qualities and positive attitude
• Willingness to learn new technologies
• Good communication and coordination skills and able to work efficiently under pressure.
• Highly analytical and a problem solver.
• Able to think critically and identify alternative and unexpected workflows

Preferred skills & knowledge:

• Experience with cryptocurrency-related APIs and blockchain services
• Passionate about the Blockchain and Crypto space
• Must be a self starter who is not afraid to ask questions and find the information needed to complete assignments
• Highly technical