QA Engineer

Company Overview

Offering a complete ecosystem of maritime services, including broking, finance, port services and research, Clarksons is at the heart of global shipping. Our unrivalled reach, expertise, and depth of experience, combined with leading research, enables us to partner with clients across every sector to meet the demands of the world’s rapidly evolving maritime, offshore, trade and energy markets. Building on our unique heritage and harnessing our insights to see further, faster, we work with our clients and communities to create strategies that have a positive impact on the industry and the world around us. Dedicated to excellence, it’s our people that drive success for our clients. To understand more including day-to-day life at Clarksons, visit us at www.clarksons.com

The Role  

We are looking for a strong QA professional to join our team and ensure quality across the SDLC for one of the key tools for our Brokers. If you are a motivated SDET who can undertake manual testing, develop automated testing, is well organized and methodical, passionate about technology and eager to develop your existing skills and experience, then this role could be for you.  

This team you will join is responsible for development of a core product relating to calculation of shipping costs, and as such will involve working on an existing application, manually testing some aspects, and building out our automation to ensure we can deliver high quality software efficiently.

As a member of the team, you will be responsible for improving the development processes and standards with your peers across the Division, and within your own Team.

The team you will be part of is a multi-functional team alongside developers, and all supported by an Engineering Manager and Product Manager.

• Drive quality across all disciplines, providing guidance, feedback and suggestions to improve quality practices across the teams.
• Take ownership of a feature quality, this includes being involved in any solution definition of a feature once the Product has defined the scope.
• Plan any testing and make sure any requirements are sorted out up front (environments, users, test data, etc.)
• Testing the feature, liaising with Dev/Product as necessary during the test phase.
• Identify and implement test cases and also continuously improve our testing frameworks.
• Implement and enhance existing Cypress tests.

Skills and Experience  

Personal Attributes:  

• Excellent communication skills, able to effectively liaise with people at all levels 
• Collaborative work style, ability to lead and to bring other people along
• Business perspective understanding and prioritization – providing technical solutions aligned with business needs.
• Strong analytical, problem solving and issue resolution skills. 
• Attention to detail and a high focus on accuracy 
• Team player with the ability to exercise independent decision making 
• Hands-on, dependable, detailed, quality-conscious and result driven 
• Flexible and able to adapt to new ideas with a can-do attitude 
• Able to learn and research independently 
• Able to plan successfully and understand the big picture 

Core Skills: 

• Experience in creating test scenarios, test cases, and test management.
• Knowledge of test automation tools and frameworks (for example Selenium WebDriver, Cypress, Gherkin, Postman)
• Practical experience with test preparation, execution, defect reporting, and maintenance of test documentation
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of quality best practices, techniques, and methodologies to drive continuous quality improvements.
• Experience in creating test environments and test data. 
• Practical experience of testing applications, APIs and validating directly against SQL databases.

What you can expect

Despite our growth, we managed to maintain a relaxed and enjoyable atmosphere of a tightly knit team that can implement complex projects comprehensively and effectively. Each of us knows what is expected from us and has adequate space and freedom of action.

The actual work is important, but it’s also essential for us at Clarksons that we all stay happy, relaxed and motivated. That’s why we provide a wide range of benefits to all our employees:

• Private medical care (Luxmed)
• Voluntary group life insurance
• MyBenefit or Multisport card
• Language courses (English and German)
• Employee referral program
• Paid days off from services (B2B)
• A paid day off to care for your health - “Dzień na U”
• Integration events, joint company trips, birthday celebrations and many other

What we offer:

• Salary: DOE 18 000 - 23 000 PLN/month (B2B) or UoP
• Flexible working hours
• You choose how you work - from our office in Poznań or remotely from home, or like most of us, work hybrid.
• Strong focus on growth, interesting projects & people who enjoy working with each other!