Remote UAT Frontend QA Automation Developer

Who We Are

Our mission is to accelerate the adoption of cryptocurrency so that you and the rest of the world can achieve financial freedom and inclusion. In our first decade, Kraken has risen to become one of the largest, most successful and respected crypto exchanges on the planet. 

We are changing the way the world thinks about finance and our range of successful products are playing a critical role in the mainstream adoption of crypto assets. We continue to trail-blaze into new territory with the introduction of Kraken Bank, providing a more seamless integration between crypto and the traditional financial system. This makes us the first crypto company (ever) to be awarded a U.S. state banking charter. 

Crypto is a rapidly evolving industry and we’re just getting started. We’re growing fast and you're invited to join the revolution!

About this Role

We are looking for a highly experienced developer that will drive quality on our web front end through expansion of our automation framework. As a Front End QA Automation developer you would drive efforts both by producing high quality tests and through mentoring more junior members.  Your critical thinking and data reporting will shape the future of our product.

What you will do

• Work with Product Managers, Developers, and our Manual Testing team to:
• Deliver automated test cases in our Java/Cucumber framework from feature stories and existing manual regression tests
• Create highly reusable test steps that can be easily used by others to write test cases
• Advocate for quality in all aspects of our product
• Write tickets for failed test cases
• Reporting and documentation of test results
• Some manual testing as assigned and to better understand new features
• Review MRs
• Collaborate with other automation engineers across the Kraken family of products to crosstrain and create a uniform look and feel to our testing infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Passionate about the Kraken mission of accelerating the adoption of cryptocurrency so that the world can achieve financial freedom and inclusion.
• A Java/Cucumber developer with a passion for Quality Assurance
• Experience in writing, executing and monitoring test suites using Cucumber, Selenium
• Experienced in Java (JS, Rust, or PHP are a plus)
• Experienced with the Atlassian family of products (Jira, Confluence)
• Experience using Git
• Direct QA Experience in either equities or cryptocurrency exchanges preferred.  Must understand the difference between buy/sell at market vs limit, must understand long and short positions as well as margin trades
• Associates degree in relevant fields (computer science or finance) and 3 years QA automation experience or equivalent industry experience