QA Engineer

*We are accepting applications from anywhere in Europe, not just Poland*

About Legatics

Legatics is one of the world’s leading LegalTech scale-ups. Our legal transaction management platform enables law firms and their clients to collaborate on and close deals in an interactive online environment, providing clarity, reducing risk and saving time.

Building intuitive and accessible software for legal professionals doing this type of work is not easy - nor is transforming their working methods! We care deeply about agile development, UX design and really being in touch with the needs and constraints of our users. Information security is obviously critical, and we have increasing amounts of structured and unstructured data to process, store and present. We're carefully adding AI-based services to further optimise our users' work and we're succeeding - we're signing up more firms every week.

Our customers include some of the world’s top law firms, such as Allen & Overy, Hogan Lovells, Herbert Smith Freehills, Shearman & Sterling and King & Wood Mallesons. And we’ve been used on transactions in more than 60 countries  on transactions worth over $1 trillion.

The role

We are looking for a QA Engineer who understands the importance of quality and enjoys testing. Fundamental to this role is working closely with our Product and Engineering teams throughout the entire product lifecycle. You will join a small and growing team, owning your work with being exposed to massive impact.

If you're looking for that gives you the opportunity to take on a wide range of responsibilities, with a high degree of autonomy and significant room for growth, then we want to talk to you!

What you will be doing

• Design and execute test plans, test cases, and test scripts
• Manual testing; 
• Reporting, tracking and verifying bugs;
• Designing and maintaining test cases and suites;
• Contributing to the QA team process improvement;
• Estimating testing efforts;
• Contributing to automation test implementation;
• Working closely with the development and product teams on a daily basis;
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve product quality
• Stay up-to-date with industry best practices and emerging technologies

Who you will be working with

Barbara Zyla, QA Lead - who you will be reporting into, alongside a welcoming, inclusive and committed team. 

Team culture is really important to us. We are looking for someone who is excited to join us as a key employee at this important stage in our growth and who will bring new and exciting perspectives to Legatics. We are a friendly and passionate bunch with a wide range of interests. We love to socialise together too and hold regular team events.

Requirements

What we need from you

• 2+ years of professional QA experience;
• Experience in web-applications testing;
• Knowledge of HTTP protocol
• Experience in testing REST API (Postman, GraphQL)
• Experience of testing microservices & cloud-based architecture
• Ability to effectively write test documentation (reports, manuals, check lists, test cases etc.);
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes;
• Experience with bug tracking systems, especially JIRA;
• You have an agile mindset, a well-structured working style, and a strong team and problem-solving skills;
• Upper-intermediate level of English;

Bonus points for the following (but don't worry, these are NOT essential)

• Familiarity with automation (Typescript & Playwright);
• Experience of performance testing;
• Experience working with MongoDB;

Benefits

What we offer you:

• 20 days holiday per year (plus public holidays);
• Early Finish Fridays - on the last Friday of every month, we finish at lunchtime!
• Pension with NEST.
• Personal Learning & Development budget.
• Access to Mental healthcare for you and your immediate family.
• Enhanced parental leave policies so you can spend more time with your family.
• Lots of opportunities for accelerated professional development and career progression.
• Work alongside a supportive and talented team with the opportunity to grow one of the world’s leading LegalTech scale-ups.
• A warm, genuinely collaborative culture and an awesome team; and
• Regular socials.

Technology

We follow a microservices approach written in Node.js on AWS, managed using Terraform, Kustomize and Kubernetes. GraphQL and Apollo are used between front- and backend. Our frontend is an SPA built with React and Redux, with some Ramda. We have a dedicated test / QA team, doing a combination of manual and automated testing.

We work according to DevOps principles and we’re working towards full CI/CD, aiming for frequent small releases supported by feature flags, distributed config management, monitoring & tracing, etc.

Power in diversity

We put users at the heart of our design to provide legal transaction experiences that everyone loves. In order to make that a reality, we seek to foster a diverse and inclusive working environment that can empower our people to be creative, effective and innovative, to build a brand we are proud of.

We don’t discriminate against gender, race, religion or belief, disability, age, marital status or sexual orientation. Whatever your background may be, we welcome anyone with talent, drive and emotional intelligence. We're committed to building a diverse team and are constantly looking for ways to improve our processes to help us do that.