Contract QA Engineer

Position: Contract QA Engineer

Employment Type: Contract (B2B)

Contract Length: 12 months

Location: Remote (EU based, GMT timezone)

About YLD: Everything we do is to empower our clients to move forward. Great technology companies are built on incredible design, engineering and strategy, working in unison, operating at the very heart of an organisation and its audience. Enabling organisations to become great technology companies is our mission, and our promise to our clients. We aim to leave them with the mindset, tools, skills and expertise they need to go beyond their own expectations, revolutionise their sectors, and for us to be proud of the change we create with them and their customers.

Our Mission: Our purpose is to help our clients develop the capabilities they need to outperform their competitors. Our success is a consequence of ensuring our clients are successful. Our company is built on extraordinary people; we aim to attract, inspire, develop and retain them. YLD is a software engineering and design consultancy; we create digital capabilities for our clients that last beyond our engagement. We have offices in London, Lisbon, Porto.

About The Role: We are looking for a QA Engineer to assess software quality through automated, manual and exploratory testing. You will be responsible for identifying and reporting bugs and glitches, ensuring that our products, applications, and systems function correctly. In this role, you should have a keen eye for detail and excellent communication skills. You also should have a real passion for problem-solving, be an active learner and get excited by working collaboratively with those around you. Experience in working in Node.js environments is a must.

Technical competencies:

• Proven experience as a Automation Tester or similar role
• Strong skills in Manual testing techniques
• Experience with basic performance and load testing (e.g. using tools like k6, JMeter, or similar)
• Experience in project management and QA methodology
• Familiarity with Agile frameworks and regression testing is a plus
• Ability to document and troubleshoot errors
• Excellent communication skills
• Analytical mind and problem-solving aptitude
• Strong organisational skills
• English fluency

Non-Technical competencies:

• Problem-solving skills that balance innovation with pragmatic technology choices to solve business needs
• Comfortable working in a dynamic production environment and taking care of client expectations effectively
• Distinct customer focus and quality mindset
• An exemplar of YLD's brand and safeguarder of our reputation
• Good communication skills (both verbal and written)

Your day-to-day responsibilities will look like this:

• Design and implement automated build, test, and release processes.
• Create and maintain test automation frameworks and tests.
• Collaborate with QA engineers to develop effective strategies and test plans
• Define and continuously improve testing strategies.
• Evaluate product code according to specifications.
• Drive adoption of tools, frameworks, and best practices for testability and code quality.
• Report bugs and errors to development teams.
• Help troubleshoot issues.
• Conduct post-release/ post-implementation testing
• Work with cross-functional teams to ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Define the approach and infrastructure needed for functional and performance testing.

What you'll get in return: The chance to work with a forward-thinking, ethical, and fun group of people and to develop and grow your skills in a fast-moving business

Our typical Recruitment Process looks like this:

• 1st Interview with someone from the Talent team (30/45 mins)
• Technical Interview with our Senior Engineers (1h30)
• Meet our Client Partner and Engineering Operations Manager (30 mins)

We live and breathe our values, and know you will too:

• Growing every day
• Including everyone
• Relationships built on honesty and ethics
• Inspiring solutions
• Winning together

We're an equal opportunity employer and value diversity of all kinds. We don't discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, age, marital status, or disability status. We also believe in work-life balance and offer flexible working around our core hours.