QA Automation Engineer II – Backend APIs

Flex is a growth-stage, NYC headquartered FinTech company that is creating the best rent payment experience. It’s hard to believe that it’s 2024 and paying rent on time is expensive, inflexible, and difficult. We’re here to change that! Flex enables our users to pay rent throughout the month on a schedule that better fits their finances and budget. Our mission is to empower as many renters as possible with flexibility over their most significant recurring expense. After deliberately keeping a stealth profile as we built up unprecedented investor support and an enthusiastic user base, we are looking for motivated individuals to help us keep our mission growing. Will you be a part of the team?

About the role
Flex is looking for talented test automation engineers to help us build, scale, and improve test automation coverage for our backend APIs.  You’ll work closely with engineers and your quality team peers  to understand test requirements and build test coverage to enable fast development iterations without sacrificing the quality of our releases. This person should be comfortable working with different teams, technologies, and stakeholders in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. Strong communication and analytical skills are very desirable traits. We believe quality is something bigger than a role.
What you’ll do

• Serve as the test automation subject matter expert within an engineering team, advocating for and upholding testing best practices.
• Partner with engineering and quality peers to evaluate existing manual testing processes to identify and prioritize automation opportunities.
• Design and write robust tests that promote reusability, stability and maintainability.
• Oversee the maintenance and optimization of automated testing suites for the team, and ensure the timely review & resolution of test failures.
• Work with your quality peers to identify enhancements to our automated testing frameworks and support their implementation.
• Contribute to release planning, testing and release activities.
• Effectively communicate testing progress, challenges, and risks to stakeholders while providing actionable recommendations for continuous improvement.

Key qualifications

• 4+ years in software development and testing.
• 3+ years of experience in test automation with a focus on API testing.
• Proficient with Javascript/Typescript, Java, Springboot and their associated test frameworks.
• Proficient in test automation tools and frameworks such as Playwright, Cypress, Puppeteer, WebDriverIO and RestAssured.
• Proficiency with CICD pipelines using tools like Github Actions, CircleCI and Jenkins.
• Strong understanding of relational databases such as MySql, Postgres and MSSQL.
• Ability to work independently, owning projects and quality outcomes.
• Experience with observability platforms such as DataDog and NewRelic.
• Experience utilizing cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and GCP
• Proven understanding of software testing methodologies, techniques, and best practices for UI and REST API testing.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Professional working proficiency with English.

Life at Flex:

We understand that it takes a diverse team of highly intelligent, curious, determined, empathetic, and self aware people to grow a successful company. Our HQ is located in New York City, but we have employees located throughout the US, Australia, Canada and South America. We are growing quickly, but deliberately, with a focus on building an inclusive culture. Our dynamic team has incredible perspectives to share, just as we know you do, and we take great pride in being an equal opportunity workplace.

We offer many employee benefits. For full time, U.S. based employees we offer:

• Competitive pay
• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision
• 401(k) + company equity
• Unlimited paid time off with a PTO minimum + 13 company paid holidays
• Parental leave
• Flex Cares Program: Non-profit company match + pet adoption coverage
• Free Flex subscription

For full time non-US employees, we offer

• Competitive Pay
• Company Equity
• Unlimited PTO