Lead Quality Assurance Engineer

PrismFP Analytics is a young and innovative FinTech firm that has spun out of an investment brokerage based in central London and New York.
The company applies deep practitioner knowledge in financial markets, statistical and quantitative techniques, and cloud and big data technologies to build disruptive analytics products for some of the biggest names in finance.

Technology stack and approach:

• Lean principles and Agile development practices
• Testing automation with Python unittest, Pytest, Selenium
• Continuous deployment across all microservices
• Python as a primary backend language, TypeScript in the front-end
• High-level frameworks (Flask, SqlAlchemy, Alembic, Pytest, Socket.IO, Angular)
• Amazon Web Services and ecosystem (AWS core services, Lambda, RDS, EKS, etc.)
• Cloud-native technologies (Kubernetes, Helm, Docker)
• Observability technologies (Prometheus, Jaeger, Loki, Grafana, Sentry)
• Big Data ecosystem and SQL Databases (Apache Airflow, PostgreSQL, Azure Hyperscale)
• Infrastructure Automation and containerised CI/CD (GitLab, Terraform, Ansible)
• And technologies you feel would help the company move forward

The company is looking for a team-oriented, well-rounded Lead Quality Assurance Engineer to join growing truly international Quantitative Research and Development Team.
You will be given the opportunity to impact the success of the company and take responsibility at a very early stage.

Selection process: (every stage besides the test takes 1-hour max)

• Cultural fit call with the manager
• Technical screening interview with QA expert
• Technical interview or task (depends on a background)
• Product vision interview with a Product Owner

Who you are:

• Familiar with testing methodologies and the defect-reporting process
• Able to methodically produce the steps, which exhibit bugs in the product and be able to reproduce and communicate these steps
• Have participated in Test Automation or interested in learning Test Automation
• Multitasking, self-driven, organized, and team-oriented
• Have Agile team experience
• Possess strong communication skills (good written/spoken English skills are a must)
• Able to read and understand code written in Python and JavaScript
• Have an interest in the financial markets

What you will do:

• Take lead in defining the QA processes and practices in PrismFP, you will be given a lot of freedom to build up the best solutions.
  Currently, QA responsibility is shared between the developers (unit testing) and the analysts (acceptance testing), we need a leader in this space to help us with introducing best approaches.
• Work closely with a product owner, product manager and developers to help build and test new features
• Estimate, prioritize, and plan testing activities
• Plan, coordinate and execute the go-live of changes in our systems
• Create, maintain and run detailed test cases, both automated and manual
• Configure environments as needed to complete assigned testing

• Work closely with financial market practitioners
• Competitive Salary
• Discretionary yearly bonus - depends on the company and the individual performance
• Flexible hybrid work policy
• Modern office in central Tallinn, Rottermani area with many restaurants, coffees and shops around
• Free breakfast, snacks, coffee/tea in the office
• 28 days of paid holiday leave
• First 3 days of sick leave covered at 100% of your salary
• Quarterly Stebby platform subscription for 100 EUR
• Ability to choose your own peripheral equipment - keyboard, mouse etc.
• Subscription to DataCamp online learning platform
• Regular team events - joint dinners, drinks
• Travel opportunities to London