QA Engineer

1 Day ago • 3 Years +

Job Summary

Job Description

As a QA Engineer, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the quality of Avakin Life's mobile virtual world. Your responsibilities will include increasing test coverage, collaborating with the development team to identify bugs, and independently managing tasks. You will develop and execute test plans and cases, prepare test data, and verify data quality. Additionally, you will be responsible for logging, managing, and retesting issues, as well as reporting testing status, milestones, and issues to project stakeholders. Extensive documentation for internal knowledge-sharing is also expected.
Must have:
  • 3 years of experience in QA Engineering
  • Strong understanding of QA terminology, processes and practices
  • General knowledge of Backend architecture / infrastructure
  • Experience in automation using Python, Java, or Golang
Good to have:
  • Experience with Cloud Infrastructure
  • Familiarity with Golang
  • Experience with Jira, Confluence
  • Experience with load-testing tools / general understanding of load testing

Job Details

The Plan

Avakin Life, our mobile virtual world, is growing quickly and we are eager to keep up with the demand of our users. This includes huge initiatives to migrate and expand our backend stability and scalability while at the same time delivering new features to our users. To keep up with the growth of our app we are constantly investigating new technologies and are always looking for the right tools and great people to grow with us.  

Our Stack:

Code: GoLang, Java, Python, Javascript, TypeScript

Database: PostgreSQL MongoDB, DyanamoDB, DGraph

All of our cloud infrastructure is hosted on AWS with widespread use of Docker and continuous integration tools.     

Engine: Unity 

About You

We are looking for someone who has a genuine interest in what they do day-to-day and can help us to increase our test coverage and consistently release great features. If you are passionate and eager to join an energetic team, we’re looking for you! 

Requirements:

  • 3 years’ experience in QA Engineering 
  • Strong understanding of QA terminology, QA processes and best practices.
  • General knowledge of Backend architecture / infrastructure 
  • Experience in automation using one or more of the following languages: Python, Java, Golang

Responsibilities:

  • Increase our test coverage
  • Help the Dev team to find bugs
  • Work independently on tasks 
  • Develop test plans and test cases
  • Prepare test data
  • Verify data quality
  • Log, manage, and retest issues
  • Report to project stakeholders about: testing status, milestones, and issues
  • Document extensively for internal knowledge-sharing

Nice to Haves:

  • Experience with Cloud Infrastructure 
  • Familiarity with Golang 
  • Experience with Jira, Confluence, 
  • Experience with load-testing tools / general understanding of load testing.  

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About The Company

Lockwood Publishing is one of the leading independent UK mobile games companies. Our most successful product to date is a 3D virtual world on mobile called Avakin Life. We want to hear from talented and passionate developers who can help us implement our incredibly exciting and ambitious road-map. As part of the team at Lockwood, you will enjoy a creative, challenging and collaborative environment where your ideas will be every bit as valued as your design expertise. Our working environment is extremely open, and all team members have complete access to any metrics they wish.

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