QA Automation Engineer

Who we are:

Picnic is a rapidly growing, venture backed startup based in Silicon Valley. We have built a mobile social application that serves as the gateway to hobbies, passion points, and interests – the “operating system for interests”. We have grown to over a million users within 2 months (faster than early Snapchat, YouTube, or Music.ly [Tiktok]), have better usage than leading social networks, and present an opportunity to positively impact socialization for a generation and beyond, shaping the internet and giving a taste of community to gen z. We’ve closed a fundraising round and are looking for talented, hardcore software engineers to lead our product scaling and growth.

Who We're Looking For:

We are looking for a self organized and motivated automation QA professional to help us maintain our app. We have a system composed of a mobile application that runs both on Android and iOS, and a backend website linked with several third-party services. We're looking to test all the features while we're rolling out the application.

Daily and Weekly Responsibilities:

- Plan and execute manual tests on the whole system (app + backend + third-party services) on both Android and iOS
- Develop quality assurance standards and company processes for product inspection
- Meet consumer demand
- Create and submit reports documenting errors for fixing
- Closely communicate with development team to solve problems Objectives of this Role
- Document testing activities
- Remain available for frequent communication on our Discord channel 

Skills and Qualifications

- Commercial QA Automation (Python) experience of 2 years or more

- Python, Appium

- Jira/Agile/Scrum knowledge

- Knowledge of quality assurance terminology, methods, and tools

- Analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills

- Work in a fast-paced environment

- English - from Intermediate

Required Qualifications

- Excellent communication skills in English

- Understanding of Agile/Scrum/Kanban methodology and how QA functions within it

-Should be able to work independently

- Work in the international company with potential perspectives (we already have more than 1 million users)

- Young friendly team of professionals (you'll be part of a small, distributed team of developers (mobile + backend) and will be assisted by the rest of the team and guided by our head of engineering for any support you'll need along the way)

- Professional grow, continuous learning and opportunities (here you have a possibility to opportunity to join an early-stage tech company, create smth new in the world, )

- Flexible working, 100% remote, competitive salary (we have a small team where everyone is valuable. We pay highly competitively and are happy to accommodate any payment form)