Quality Assurance Engineer (Android Plugin)

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About the role

We are looking for a QA Engineer who will be responsible for the Android Plugin for JetBrains IDEs (IntelliJ, PyCharm, etc.). The person will be responsible for both manual testing of the plugin before each release, but also for driving the automation of tests, either hands-on and/or by working with plugin developers. We need people who can work with users/partners to determine the most important paths as well as identify the parts in the tool that are fragile and focus on those. Most of the logic of the plugin is reused from Android Studio and was tested there, so the team needs. to focus on testing related to integration with JetBrains ecosystem.

Project

Android Plugin for IntelliJ

Project scope

We are responsible for maintenance of Android Plugin for JetBrains IDEs. The team has two objectives: keep plugin up to date with changes in IntelliJ and Android Studio a mostly increase autimatization and reduction of technical depth. Additionally, team will need to create a suite of integration tests to cover most important path and automate manual testing. Our team cooperates closely with teams at JetBrains (Kotlin Multiplatform) and Google (Android Studio).Team is working on tooling for development of android applications – not applications themselves!

Tech stack

The plugin is primarily written in Kotlin, with some legacy Java code. The IDEs use a customised version of Swing, and the code often uses Kotlin coroutines. Team will relay heavily on Git (including automation based on it). Work will tracked on Youtrack and tested on Teamcity. As team is building tools for developing applications for Android, some experience with developing mobile applications would be beneficial

Challenges

Reducing tech debt and build up automation and test coverage to reduce manual work and the time between releases. Team will need to design a flow that is tided to IntelliJ, Kotlin Multiplatform and Adroid Studio releases

Team

3 IDE engineers, QA engineer and TPM

What we expect in general 

• Knowledge of testing methodologies and hands-on testing experience.

• Experience in building automated testing infrastructure and processes.

• Kotlin (or Java) programming experience.

• The ability to understand other peopleʼs code (both test and product code).

• The ability to grasp new concepts quickly and to work both in a team andindependently.

• Good English language skills to interact with colleagues and end users.

• Hands-on experience in automation testing is required.

• Experience working in IntelliJ IDEA is required.

• Strong desire to grow professionally and high self-motivation.

• Willingness to propose new ideas and improvements for current approaches.

Seems lots of expectations, huh? Don’t worry! You don’t have to meet all the requirements. What matter the most is your passion and willingness to develop. Apply and find out!

A few perks of being with us

• Building tech community

• Flexible hybrid work model

• Home office reimbursement

• Language lessons

• MyBenefit points

• Private healthcare

• Training Package

• Virtusity / in-house training

And a lot more!