Software Engineer - QA

Be part of a progressive change! At PMI, we’ve chosen to do something incredible. We’re totally transforming our business and building our future on smoke-free products with the power to improve the lives of a billion smokers worldwide. With huge changes, comes huge opportunities. By joining us you’ll enjoy the freedom to dream up, build better and brighter solutions and space to move your career forward in endlessly new directions. The disruptive transformation we’re going through means that you’ll find many unique IT projects that match all levels of skills and ambitions – from pace-setting global pilot projects to vital local updates. Whether you want to pursue a personal passion or build an international career, there’s space here to develop in any number of directions. To join us in IT you’ll need to be driven and equally happy whether you’re taking the strategic view or diving deep into processes. We'll make sure you're set up to succeed whatever your project is, our culture is agile and collaborative, and we genuinely believe our people are among of the best you’ll ever work with. We are looking for a skilled and passionate Quality Assurance Engineer to join our Centre of Excellence to build and scale effective software solutions for our Consumer IoT Products. As a QA engineer, you will be responsible for contributing to a high level of quality standards and practices for an Engineering team, where you will have the opportunity to build high value, differentiating and impactful applications that will interface with our end customers and support the development, production, and user experience of our products. Responsibilities: • Be part of the QA Chapter, working alongside with peers and Lead on identifying, prioritizing, and implementing standard processes and tooling for PMI engineering teams • Work closely with the Team Lead, Product Owner, Engineering Manager, and other Stakeholders to ensure product requirements are well captured in the team’s backlog, and quality assurance topics are identified and addressed accordingly • Drive quality engineering practices and continuous improvement in your team • Work with product teams to understand requirements, design comprehensive test plans and test cases • Work with product teams to probe and question requirements beyond their testability to include quality assurance and consumer/user-centricity • Implement the plans to thoroughly test all software releases under your charge, which can include client and server-side products, API platform and server infrastructure • Contribute to improving testing activities through automation, implementing automation tests using modern frameworks • Coach and collaborate with developers to ensure a strong and efficient test automation strategy • Ensure standard methodologies are implemented and act as a facilitator for the team around quality engineering, using a shift left approach • Report and track defects, prepare test plan report, and ensure all related tasks • Support NFRs testing in areas including performance, load, security, and accessibility • You will work with Agile Processes that are adapted to the team’s and project’s needs Background and Qualifications: • Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Software Engineering (or equivalent) • Minimum of 3 years of proven experience as a QA Engineer and experience in cloud-enabled products is a plus • Technical background in application engineering, infrastructure, and integration • Experience with software DevOps Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) processes and tools (Jenkins) and code versioning tools • Strong experience with test automation tools and frameworks • Experience with test and defect management tools (ex: Xray, Jira) • Coding Experience in at least one of the following programming languages: Java, JavaScript, python • Working experience applying modern Agile Software Development practices • Strong interpersonal skills including creative thinking, attention to detail, collaboration, teamwork, and an aim to learn and succeed • Fluency in English (written and oral) Additional Experience Preferred or Helpful: • Cloud Technologies knowledge (Amazon AWS is a plus) • Experience with modern development techniques BDD, TDD, ATDD • Experience with Cypress.io, Serenity BDD, Selenium web driver automation frameworks is valued • Knowledge/experience in lower layer testing/automation (API testing, Contract testing, Integration testing is a big plus) • Mobile testing knowledge • Knowledge in Programming / Querying NoSQL databases, Relational Database Management Systems and SQL is a plus What we offer: Our success depends on the all people who come to work every single day with a sense of purpose and an appetite for progress. Join PMI and you too can: • Seize the freedom to define your future and ours. We’ll empower you to do things differently, experiment and explore • Be part of an inclusive, diverse culture, where everyone’s contribution is respected; collaborate with some of the world’s best people and feel like you belong • Pursue your ambitions and develop your skills with a global business – our staggering size and scale provides endless opportunities to progress • Take pride in delivering our promise to society: improve the lives of a billion smokers. To join our growing team… We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request.