Location: London, Hybrid or Remote

We have an office in London and this role can be based in the office, hybrid remote or remote within reasonable commuting distance to the London area. We have collaboration days in the office on Thursdays and attendance is encouraged but optional. ( Subject to your legal right to work within the jurisdiction) . 

External Recruiters- Please review notice at the bottom of posting prior to contacting.

About OpenFin

OpenFin is a high-growth enterprise productivity tech company backed by the world’s largest banks and most respected FinTech VCs, including J.P. Morgan, Barclays, HSBC, Wells Fargo, SC Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, DRW, Nyca Partners, and Pivot Investment Partners. OpenFin modernises and democratises app development and distribution in the finance space. We provide a secure OS that brings a fast and intuitive app experience to the financial desktop. Built on Google’s Chromium, OpenFin combines native experience, data sharing, lightning-fast distribution, and robust security with an agile web development and deployment model to accelerate digital transformation and innovation. Today, over 4,000 apps across 675,000 users run on OpenFin, and with the company recently completing a Series D funding round, OpenFin is set for continued growth and expansion.

About the Role

OpenFin is hiring for a QA Automation Engineer to join our global team! Our QA team is seeking an individual with technical expertise and a quality assurance know-how, to transform OpenFin’s testing infrastructure. As part of the team, you’ll partner with our engineers to build and maintain a testing suite that ensures stability, durability and efficiency across all our products. This will entail performing both automated and manual testing equally.  In this role, you will have the ability to influence decisions and drive the direction of OpenFin’s Quality Assurance activities across our development and QA teams.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Engineers to review new application features and devise appropriate automated and manual testing strategies prior to development
• Architect and develop robust, scalable and high quality automation and manual testing solutions for functional, regression and performance testing for OpenFin software (Desktop for Mac and Windows)
• Contribute to a quality engineering practice that thrives in finding problems before our users do and that finds innovative ways to break systems
• Form cross-functional partnerships with engineers and product managers to identify production quality solutions to improve scalability, resilience, reliability, consistency and performance
• Identify gaps in automated and manual testing process (unit, integration, etc) and devise ways to close them 

What We’re Looking For

• 3- 6+ years of software development or heavy QA automation experience across Desktop and web based software
• Excellent knowledge in building, maintaining and executing both manual and automated test harnesses 
• Experience in testing complex API based or Engineer targeted products.
• Exposure to Cyress (preferred), Mocha, Python, Selenium, Puppeteer, Jest and other best in class testing frameworks
• Substantial experience with TypeScript, JavaScript front-end frameworks (React, Next.js, etc), Node
• Experience with Windows & Mac desktop applications and web front-end testing
• Quality first mindset, reliable self-starter, solutions-oriented individual with attention to detail
• Excellent analytical thinking, oral and written communication skills with agile ability to influence peers

What We’re Offering

Benefits -

• Generous Paid Holidays, Company Holidays & Sick Time
• Competitive & Comprehensive Health Insurance
• Thoughtfully- Planned Paid Parental Leave
• Financial Well-Being Plans (Pension) (Life Insurance)
• Stock Options
• Professional Development Courses
• Employee Resource Groups

Additional Perks -

• Vitality Plus Benefits & Discounts
• In-Office Coffee, Tea, Snacks, and Beer on Tap
• Casual dress code
• Team Lunches

Sponsorship - While we highly value all of our candidates, we are not offering sponsorship for this role.

Life at OpenFin 

At OpenFin, our mission is to stay on the cutting edge of web technologies and to enable our customers to do the same. We pride ourselves on our friendly, diverse, understanding and supportive culture. Our goal is to create a space where employees can learn and innovate, and overall, have a good time doing it. We value and appreciate that our employees have a wide set of interests and experiences. Getting to know each other and forming relationships is important, which is why we regularly host offsite events, happy hours and virtual social hours, in addition to having a variety of Employee Resource Groups to participate in. Our environment is conducive to a productive and enjoyable learning experience -- aligned together, moving fast and working to create compelling solutions for our clients. 

Recent Awards 

*Voted "Top 50 Best Startups to Work for in the US" & "Top 50 Best Startups to Work for in New York" by BuiltIn (2023)

*Voted as a "Best Employer Award" finalist at the UK FinTech Awards (2023)

*Voted "Best FinTech Company CEO" at the FinTech Breakthrough Awards (2023)

*Voted "Best Internal Talent Team" by the Financial Technologist (2023)

*Voted "Best Solution for Workflow Automation" at the Trading Tech Insight Awards (2023)

*Voted "Top Innovator Across Financial Markets" in TabbFORUM NOVA Awards (2023)

*Voted "Best User Interface Innovation" in the Risk Markets Technology Awards (2023)

*Voted "Top 100 Most Promising Private FinTech Companies" by CB Insights (2023)

*Voted "Most Influential Financial Technology Firm" by Harrington Starr (2023)

*Voted "FinTech of the Year" at the US FinTech Awards (2022)

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