QA Automation Engineer

Description

Board Intelligence is a technology and advisory firm that supercharges boards with the science of board effectiveness. We build better businesses and benefit society.  

Through a suite of AI-powered software tools, evaluation frameworks, and advisory services that distil twenty years of boardroom experience, we improve the efficiency of board processes and the effectiveness of boards.  

We work with over 70,000 leaders and 3,000 organisations across the world, with clients across the Fortune 500, FTSE 100, and OMX 30. In 2024 we received substantial backing from K1 Investment Management – the leading B2B Enterprise SaaS investors. We are at the beginning of significant growth, and we’re looking for superb talent to join us on this journey.  

As we grow, we’re fiercely protective of our culture and values. Many of us, including our founders, have families and other priorities, so we know the value of a supportive company.  

The team is diverse and friendly. We value fun: most days you’ll find a social event or learning opportunity to get involved with, including company socials, away days, philanthropic activities and lunch & learns.  

Our Mission

We unleash the potential of organisations through the science of board effectiveness, building better businesses and benefiting society. 

Our Engineering Team

We build, maintain, and improve the software that our clients rely on. Our work ensures that Board Intelligence product suite is efficient, scalable, and capable of adapting to changing customer needs. 

This role offers full-time working from our Ebene office.

The Role

As a QA Automation Engineer at Board Intelligence, you'll be responsible for helping us lay the foundations for our Automation Testing initiative, and then bring it forward. You will work under the QA Manager, and closely with our SRE and Engineering teams, to help shape how we work and ensure best in class standards of automation.

What will you be responsible for?

• Proven track record of strong automation testing within Agile, ideally with a Software Engineering background. Experienced with various automation tools, frameworks (e.g., Cucumber, Selenium, Cypress), and languages, with the ability to recommend new tools
• Demonstrable experience in implementing best practices for testing frameworks, writing clean code, and a solid understanding of CI/TDD
• Strong experience in testing APIs, web front ends, and mobile apps, and in collaborating with DevOps/SRE to optimise deployment pipelines and improve overall quality
• Experienced with bug tracking software (like Jira), story management, and ideally familiar with Public Cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure) and containerisation (Kubernetes)
• Experience with cross-browser and performance/load testing, an appreciation for architecture decisions, and ideally some understanding of Ruby (or similar) for troubleshooting. Bonus points for mentoring/upskilling experience

Requirements

We’re looking for someone that has a hunger to change our working environment for the better, driving performance from our people and protecting our culture and values to make sure we remain a caring, entrepreneurial and client-first workplace.  

We’re open-minded on the background someone may have coming into this role, but things that could help a candidate to be successful would be: 

• Reviews specifications and collaborates closely with colleagues in order to plan testing activities and ensure appropriate coverage, within the constraints of time and cost.
• Plays a key part in validating that systems perform to specification by writing and executing automated functional and non-functional test cases.
• Identifies and reports on any defects, and supervises their successful resolution.
• Contributes to the identification of automation opportunities, and the conversion of manual tests to automated tests.
• Can build frameworks and patterns for the testing of applications that others can adopt to ensure consistency in automation testing.
• Is self-driven and constantly striving to improve everything with automation.
• Demonstrates and promotes positive attitudes and behaviours, such as collaboration, learning, sharing, respect and motivation.
• Can manage and prioritise multiple projects and tasks.
• Has strong communication skills with the ability to work across a range of varied stakeholders.

Tech Stack

Our apps are written in Ruby (with Rails). Client-side web apps are written in React, and some services in Clojure. The platform is built into 3 datacentres and runs on Kubernetes. We have aspirations to start leveraging other languages and public cloud hosting environments. You do not need experience with all of that.

Benefits

We pride ourselves on our great working environment and package. Here’s some of what’s on offer: 

• 22 days holiday 

• Pension Scheme: 4.5% PRGF  

• Health Insurance through Swan Insurance 

• Personal group accident cover 

• 1 day WFH after probation 

• In-office lunches and celebrations for major holidays