Senior Quality Assurance Specialist

ABOUT US

We are blau direkt

Infrastructure service provider for brokerage companies in the insurance industry.

Our business is to provide infrastructure services to insurance brokers. We manage

data, documents, claims, and most importantly: communication! blau direkt facilitates

the work of over 1,400 insurance brokers and distributors.

As a technology market leader, we offer brokerage companies in the insurance industry

the most modern infrastructure services and a tried and tested touchpoint management

system, which fundamentally sets us apart from other broker pools in Germany.

We are just opening a new R&D center, where we build engineering teams to support the

most crucial blau direkt products.

Insurance and finance are dull? Not with blau direkt!

We have made it our task to digitize and simplify the originally very paper-heavy and

time-consuming work of our partners with the help of our solutions. Together as a team,

we are driving new standards in the industry.

Talk to us and be a part of this experience from the beginning, which gives you the

unique opportunity to really make an impact on how we do things.

REQUIREMENTS

• 5+ years of experience in software testing
• fluent in english
• Experience working with REST APIs (Swagger, Postman, test automation).
• Exploratory testing skills,
• Ability to analyze test logs, from different environments and find potential problems,
• Strong judgment and analytical skills.
• Basic Automation Skills will be a plus.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Working as an independent tester and as a part of a testing and development team
• Creating risk-based test plans and test cases design
• Requirement analysis
• Test results analysis and defect reporting
• Collaborating actively with our teams
• Maintaining test environments
• Executing and improving testing procedures
• Perform manual and/or automated tests

OUR STACK

• Technologies: PHP 8.0+/ Symfony 6.1+ /Laravel 9.0+ , JS/TypeScript, Go
• Databases: MySQL, MariaDB
• Infrastructure: UNIX, Kubernetes
• Queue: RabbitMQ
• Tests: phpunit + codeception
• CI/CD - Gitlab
• Containerization

ENGINEERING PRACTICES

• OOP, TDD, DDD, SOLID, Clean Code
• Pull requests / Code review (Gitlab)

AGILE WORKFLOW

• Scrum + elements of eXtreme Programming
• PO + SM

TOOLS

• Git + Gitlab
• Xdebug
• Jira, Confluence, AHA!, Slack, G Suite/Google workspace
• Mostly PhpStorm but freedom to choose tools
• Docker

QUALITY ASSURANCE

• Test manager
• Cross-functional teams - QAs on the board
• Test automation / Python
• Test case management tools
• Testing mobile applications on real devices or a device farm

BENEFITS AND PERKS

• Private healthcare
• Cafeteria system & Sport Card
• Referral Bonus
• Startup atmosphere
• No dress code
• Flexible hours
• Flexible working format - remote or hybrid 
• Modern office, Chillout zone, Standing desk, parking for bicycles, and a cloakroom with showers
• Regular office lunches and integration meetings
• Some international travels included