Senior Software Engineer Tester (Backend)

Equação IT is a company focused on boosting technology and solid solutions through our expert consultants leading a high perspective and adding value to our customers with the purpose of providing optimization and business growth to our partners.

Requirements:
• English should be at least C1;
Essential: 
• Strong experience (2-3 yrs) of API testing, both manual and automated, developing automated acceptance tests for APIs in Java and Typescript (We are using Typescript predominantly but still have a small need for Java to maintain legacy systems until we have fully moved over to Typescript);
• Experience of Typescript;
• Experience writing tests using BDD, Gherkin techniques;
• Experience of using GitHub or a similar tool;
• Experience of working collaboratively in Agile Scrum teams;
• Effort estimation, planning, prioritization, and time management on an agile team;
• Automation code refactoring experience;
• Writing test approaches for functional testing and exploratory test charters, and communicating test outcomes;
• CI/CD experience, deploying builds (we use AWS CodePipeline and GithubActions, but experience of Jenkins would be useful);
• Experience of AWS services and AWS tools (e.g. S3, EC2, Lambda, CloudWatch, etc);
• Experience using Postman, Insomnia or similar API testing tools;
• Clear and effective verbal and written communication for reporting, documentation, etc.

Desirable: 
• Experience or exposure to load testing tools - we use Gatling but experience of JMeter would be useful;
• Experience using Jira or a similar tool;
• Experience of exploratory testing of APIs;

• Duration: Long Term Contract.
• Location: on-site/hybrid. Candidates must be living in Portugal.