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Who We Are:
Founded in 2015 and based in Chicago, IL, privately held Braviant Holdings, Inc is a leading provider of tech-enabled credit products which combine breakthrough technology and cutting-edge machine learning to transform how people access credit online. The Company’s next-generation approach to lending reduces credit barriers and creates a Path to Prime® helping millions of underbanked consumers build credit history, reduce their cost of borrowing, and take control of their personal finances. Braviant has been named multiple times to the Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing private companies and has been recognized as a Best Place to Work.
Position Summary:
Our technology team is looking for a Sr. QA automation Engineer to participate in building out our platform in support of our rapidly growing lending business. The Sr. QA automation engineer will be responsible for quality assurance and performance testing of the lending platform. We are seeking very strong hands-on technical candidates who want to be part of an exciting and challenging technology team in a startup atmosphere.
Please note: At this time, we are unable to sponsor employment visas. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future sponsorship. We are also only considering applicants who are currently residing in the United States.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Design and develop test strategy for the lending platform.
- Design and implement automated testing framework to support full end to end automation of regression test plans.
- Analyze business and technical requirements and develop test plans.
- Participate in Agile activities including sprint planning, stand-ups and retrospectives.
- Understanding and experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment process.
- Work closely with development team in building automation for continuous integration and deployment.
- Investigate and recreate reported defects.
- Track and document all testing defects and resolutions.
- Participate in the design and development for test automation and support.
- Stay up to date with tools, trends, and technologies in the FinTech space.
Education & Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree preferred.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience building an automation framework from the ground up.
- Ability to demonstrate experience with the following: Selenium, SQL, Cucumber, Junit, Capybara, Postgres.
- Experience with the concepts of cloud hosting on Amazon AWS including AWS EC2 instances, S3 storage management, Elastic Beanstalk, etc.
- Understanding of contemporary API and architectural concepts (REST, Microservices, etc.).
- Experience with Git (Github and BitBucket), Jira and Confluence.
- Experience working in an Agile or Lean Software Development such as Kanban, Scrum and Test-Driven Development. Previous experience or training as a scrum master is preferred.
- Knowledge of Java, Python, or other programming languages.
- Strong root-cause analysis skills.
- Deadline and detail-oriented.
- Ability to thrive in startup environment with heavy workload, competing priorities, and less structure than more established company.
Benefits and Perks
- Medical benefits paid by employer/employee split of 80/20. Provided by UnitedHealthcare
- Dental and Vision covered at zero cost to you for employee only coverage
- PTO, Sick and Floating Holidays
- 13 Company Holidays
- 401K Match vested each week
- Profits Interest Units for all
- Remote work environment
- Internet stipend
- Team and company events/get togethers
Braviant is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Braviant Holdings Chicago, Illinois, USA Office
Our company is located in the heart of the downtown with great access to public transportation (both Metra & CTA), coffee shops, and restaurants.
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