API Test Engineer (Core Integration Team), Remote

About project and position overview

Access Softek is looking for an API test engineer passionate about building services that make people's financial life easier. You will work in a small team of core integration developers responsible for the back-end service running almost all the company's products. The team is actively getting help from QA/AQA, product owners, and architects and is utilizing best Agile practices. We use CI/CD on a daily basis, practice code reviews, write unit tests and follow the zero-bug policy. We are proud to mention that we dedicate 25% of our development time to dealing with technical debts and always think about work-life balance and self-development when planning our next iteration.We are planning to create version 3 of our back-end, hoping to deliver some good new features to our clients, so now is the best time to join us and contribute with your bright ideas.

Mandatory Working Hours: 15-19 Moscow time

Primary Responsibilities:

• Initial/regression testing of API
• Reviewing Acceptance Criteria, functional and technical requirements and making suggestions of improvements
• Deploy components in environments
• Collaboration with developers, PM's, technical support
• High-level estimation (in Story points), based on AC
• Writing/reviewing test cases
• Reporting bugs in Jira
• Test environment and users customization
• Providing suggestions for improving QA processes and the quality of software
• To be a proactive team member and provide input on all stages of software development

• Work from anywhere in the world!
• Compensation vacation (15 days off in a year)
• Global corporate events for all employees
• Internet compensation (50$ per month)
• Paid sick leave
• Days off on public holidays
• Home office equipment (computer, additional monitor, etc.), if necessary
• Relocation compensation package to be discussed individually
• and other benefits, described in detail in the Staff Handbook

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• 2+ years experience in software testing
• Hands on backend API testing (including using logs)
• Writing and maintaining QA test-case suites
• Ability to work with testing tools like Postman, SoapUI, Fiddler.
• Be familiar with TCP/HTTP, SOAP/REST (as a plus OFX/C3)
• Knowledge data formats like XML/JSON/CSV
• Specify requirements, assessments and QA documentation
• Evaluating the product against requirements and test-cases
• English level (speaking, writing, reading) - intermediate level
• Ability to work independently and in a team
• Highly organized with an ability to handle multiple and complicated tasks
• Strong desire to learn new things and to develop new skills
  
  As Plus:

• Knowledge fintech/banking sphere
• Octopus/Jira/Confluence/
• Work experience in big companies with good testing processes.
• Experience working with a distributed team
• Experience with SCRUM