Senior QA Engineer

About Lendable

Lendable is on a mission to make consumer finance amazing: faster, cheaper and friendlier.

We’re building one of the world’s leading fintech companies and are off to a strong start:

• One of the UK’s newest unicorns with a team of just over 250 people
• Among the top 10 fastest-growing tech companies in the UK
• Profitable since 2017
• Backed by top investors including Balderton Capital and Goldman Sachs
• Loved by customers with the best reviews in the market (4.8/5 across 10,000s of reviews)

So far, we’ve rebuilt the Big Three consumer finance products from scratch: loans, credit cards and car finance. We get money into our customers’ hands in minutes instead of days.

 We’re growing fast, and there’s a lot more to do: we’re going after the two biggest Western markets (UK and US) where trillions worth of these are held by big banks with dated systems and painful processes.

Join us if you want to

• Take ownership across a broad remit. You are trusted to make decisions that drive a material impact on the direction and success of Lendable from day 1
• Work in small teams of exceptional people, who are relentlessly resourceful to solve problems and find smarter solutions than the status quo
• Build the best technology in-house, using new data sources, machine learning and AI to make machines do the heavy lifting

What's the job

We’re looking for a Senior QA Engineer, experienced in multiple technologies but focused on React Native, to join our credit card engineering team and lead our quality focus. Our current engineering team is around 120 strong and has helped transform finance by building a next-generation lending, car finance, and credit card platform.

• Build FE Testing Infrastructure: Review our existing FE Test suite (written in Detox) and propose and implement improvements to help engineers produce higher quality software faster

• Understanding the product: As a bridge between Product and Engineering, you must understand the product deeply from both a business and technical perspective. You need to understand the code that is being written and how it works on a technical level, and what the business needs of each feature. Ask lots of questions and play with the app thoroughly.

• Test features: While the vast majority of PRs will still go out via the current process, this engineer will be on hand to help testing with the more complex features, and supplement the testing work that is currently performed by Product, allowing Product to focus more on the product’s functionality.

• Develop Test Suites: Develop a suite of manual tests for testing the application and document complex behaviour of the platform.

• Develop Testing Tools: Develop any tools required to make testing easier.

• Discuss edge cases: Identify potential bug vectors that are introduced into features, and can provide guidance to the team so that these are addressed early. The long term strategy is to embed this knowledge within the team.

• Highlight test scenarios: Devise test scenarios to address the above.

• Create checklists: Help us to avoid issues by checking common issues.

• Guide developers: Ideally you won’t discover many issues. When you do, help the engineers to review the process and tools we have employed and advise and guide the engineering team on how we can improve these to avoid problems in the future.

Day to Day expectations:

• Testing Features (50%): Our goal is to ensure that every feature is thoroughly tested prior to release. Work with your team to ensure that we have tested at the correct level appropriate to the feature, and supplement any complex features with manual testing.

• Build and Document knowledge (20%): Learn about the application and document any complex functionality, so that it can be easily understood by anyone in engineering or product.

• Code Reviews (10%): Assist teams with Code Reviews: Review and guide teams on the most effective testing strategies: 10%

• Support Teams on Delivery (20%): Help teams deliver by collaborating with them on writing up testing specs, answering quality questions, tracking metrics, prioritising tech debt, OKRs, incidents, and retrospective quality actions, etc

What we're looking for

• Enjoys testing and finding bugs and ensuring that we deliver fantastic software every day.

• Is passionate about quality and driving constant, small changes for improved software engineering practice

• Loves working with engineers to inspire them to create fantastic software and embrace a culture of quality

In addition, we are looking for a candidate with strong technical skills and experience with:

• Strong knowledge of software development fundamentals and experience with multiple languages, including PHP, Javascript, Java/Kotlin and Python

• Designing and delivering effective testing strategies and policies at all levels from unit testing of components to contract testing of applications

• Knowledge of Credit industry and credit cards specifically is a plus.

Interview Process

• A quick phone call with one of the team

• A short coding exercise to complete in your own time

• Onsite or Video Interviews

  • Technical Coding Assessment

  • Quality Process Assessment

• Final interview with the CTO

Life at Lendable (also check out our Glassdoor page)

• The opportunity to scale up one of the world’s most successful fintech companies.
• Best-in-class compensation including equity.
• You can work from home every Monday and Friday if you wish - on the other days, we all come together IRL to be together, build and exchange ideas.
• Our in-house chef prepares fresh, healthy lunches in the office every Tuesday-Thursday.
• We care for our Lendies’ well-being both physically and mentally, so we offer the highest coverage when it comes to private health insurance.
• We organise an annual trip with the whole company, to celebrate our milestones and reflect on our achievements.
• We're an equal-opportunity employer and are looking to make Lendable the most inclusive and open workspace in London.