Software Engineer, Test Automation

  • Full-time

Company Description

Showpad is the leading Sales Acceleration platform. We help sales to be more productive and marketing to have insights in sales interactions. We are a fast-growing, mobile first, SaaS company with offices in Ghent (Belgium), San Francisco (CA) and Portland (OR). More than 500 businesses worldwide use our technology to accelerate their sales.

We have been nominated as Ernst & Young's Most Promising Company of the Year 2014! 

Job Description

Showpad is looking for an outstanding Test Automation Engineer to join us. We offer you the opportunity to be part of a talented and agile engineering team on a great journey, one of a start-up growing into a sustainable business, changing an entire industry along the way. 

If you are the one we’re looking for, then you are a pragmatic problem solver that likes a challenge, that takes initiative, and is passionate about his/her work. You take pride in assuring the quality of a product and making sure customers have a flawless experience. 

Responsibilities:

* Contribute to the release process 
* Work with Product Management to understand the requirements 
* Review user stories/technical specifications to create test plans (incl. acceptance criteria) 
* Plan, develop and execute software tests
* Set up automatic testing, maximizing their coverage 
* Manage and write test documentation 
* Inform early about risks (security, scalability, performance) 

Qualifications

Requirements:


* Pragmatic problem solver and team player 
* Experienced with automation of regression, integration, performance/load tests 
* Experienced in diagnosing, reporting and tracking quality issues 
* Experienced in testing web and mobile applications 
* Experienced with code versioning and bug tracking tools (Git, Jira) 
* You are quality minded and pay a lot of attention to detail 
* You have a strong interest and willingness to adapt to and learn about new technologies 
* Fluent in spoken and written English 

Desirable:

* Experience in software development 
* Experience in a lead position 
* Experience with release management

Additional Information

What we offer:

  • The best learning experience you can have. Challenging but fun!
  • The opportunity to be part of great team working on an amazing product that is used worldwide
  • A stimulating working environment in bright offices in the heart of Gent
  • Nice, passionate and experienced colleagues
  • Endless supply of delicious fresh fruit and excellent coffee
  • Regular lunch talks and team events