Overview

At Smart, our mission is to transform retirement, savings and financial wellbeing, across all generations, around the world.

THE ROLE

We’re looking for a Quality Assurance Engineer to work with our development team, who will help manage the teams responsibility towards quality in our codebase before it is delivered to our production environment for our clients to use. The job function is incredibly important as your quality assurance experience will be used to guide team decisions about if new code should be shipped or not. You will become an integral part of the development process as the engineering team will look to you to ensure that the application is fit for purpose.

Responsibilities

• Contribute towards testing approaches for features and projects

• Ensure new features are in sizeable, easily testable chunks

• Work closely with the full team in order to refine all tickets with acceptance criteria and test criteria

• Design tickets in a way so that anybody in the team is able to test them

• Move responsibility of testing away from a QA bottleneck to encourage a whole team ownership of the release of features to production

• Work in an agile environment delivering to production daily

• Continuously improving, from your own self learning to company wide processes

• Collaborate with the team and the QA Practice to improve processes and make sure the highest quality of code reaches production

Qualifications

• Self-driven, good communication, proud of your work, and a team player.

• Willing to learn and grow within a fast paced environment.

• Agile experience in the end to end test cycle.

• 2+ years of testing experience and/or relevant qualifications.

• Analytical and problem solving skills with an interest in technology.

• Desired but not essential skills:

• Github

• MySQL

• AWS

• Postman

• Cypress

Who we are

We work in partnerships with governments and financial institutions in the UK and internationally. Our cloud-native digital platform is revolutionising how people around the world think about, and save for, their retirement.

At heart, we’re a financial technology business. What we do is all about innovation, and using the power of digital change to put the customer first. Our Engineers will tell you that working at Smart gives you the opportunity to play your part in developing world-class technological solutions, working with – and learning from – like-minded people.

You’ll also find that, across our business, our colleagues love Smart’s culture, and how what we do means better financial outcomes for savers. That feels worthwhile, and it means that what we do, collectively, goes way beyond the nine to five of a typical working day.

Don’t just take our word for it – you can see what our colleagues say about working at Smart on LinkedIn Life and Glassdoor.

Benefits

At Smart, one of the eight principles we work to is “We want happy and good people in our team”. We created a list of benefits that helps us achieve this goal:

• 26 days’ of paid holiday per year + Polish bank holidays

• 2250 PLN annual training budget to spend on your professional development

• Health insurance (including dental care) via TU Inter

• MultiSport Plus Gym Card

• Online English lessons during working hours

• Sick leave in accordance with Polish labour law

• Paternity and maternity leave in accordance with Polish labour law

• Additional employer contribution to the Employee Capital Plans (PPK) of 2.5%

• Death in service insurance cover

• Fully-paid five-week sabbatical after five years of employment

• In the Krakow office wellbeing services, such as manicures, massages and barbers.