R3 is hiring a

Web3 QA Automation Lead

At R3 we’re planning to change the world. You will be working at the cutting edge of permissioned blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) as it transforms the future of business.

Our Corda DLT platform is built to run complex workflows between businesses, without needing centralized points of control. Designed for the needs of financial markets infrastructures, it’s trusted by banks, stock exchanges, insurance companies, payments companies, and others - highly demanding industries with the interesting technical challenges that come with them.

R3’s Professional Services is comprised of innovative problem-solvers and strategic, fast-moving engineers who collaborate with customers to solve their challenges and build business solutions. As part of the post-sales organisation, Professional Services is responsible for driving successful customer outcomes through supporting the design, build and deployment of solutions. This team provides you with the opportunity to solve real-world business and technical challenges with large global corporates, banks and start-ups across many industries.

This position will play a primary role in planning, implementing, leading, and executing all aspects of Quality and Testing.

The role requires hands-on QA expertise, ability to take initiative and develop and evolve our QA processes.

The right candidate will be able to analyze the systems to determine what to test, the priority of those tests and the best way to test.

Candidate should understand the requirements and design test procedures and test cases for automated software testing.

 

Responsibilities:

• Lead the QA strategy, test design /plan, test automation, and drive test execution for a key strategic service delivery transformation initiative.
• Lead development of JVM-based QA automation frameworks ( UI and API Based Frameworks)
• Establish and evolve formal QA/testing practices, test processes, methodology, standards, and hygiene for agile development efforts.
• Oversee all aspects of quality assurance including establishing metrics, applying industry best practices, and developing new tools and processes to ensure quality goals are met.
• Develop the testing strategy and enablement of User Acceptance Testing, partnering effectively with the business to ensure goal achievement.
• Respond to all requests from team members in a timely and professional manner.
• Design automated test scripts that are reusable.
• Ensure that all automated testing related activities are carried out as per the standards defined by the company.
• Negotiate, plan, and manage all release activities.
• Lead and co-ordinate the Go-Live activities including the execution of the deployment Plans and checklists.
• Communicate all key project plans, commitments, and changes including requirements, QA plans, schedule, and scope changes.

Key Skills Required for the Role:

• 8+ years of experience in designing and developing QA automated test framework.
• Proven software development experience using Java or a JVM based language, anyone with a strong desire to learn Java or Kotlin is also considered.  (An excellent opportunity for you to acquire new technical skills)
• Proven track record of delivering test automation for highly complex software systems ( Framework design )
• Hands on experience in API Automation Testing ( End-To-End  Framework Understanding) using any tools/library (Postman / RestAssured - Good to have)
• Experience planning for and executing end-to-end functional and non-functional tests
• Good to have CI/CD pipeline Experience ( Jenkins or any tool) .
• Good people skills, with the ability to cope with ambiguity.