Software Engineer in Test

Ninja Holdings was founded in 2017 by a team seeking to revolutionize the way everyday Americans interact with financial services. Through our Ninja Holdings and Ninja Card brands, we empower people overlooked by traditional financial institutions to take control of their finances via a full suite of digital banking and lending products, providing incentives and rewards along the way as we guide them on a path to financial improvement.

Through our EDGE brand, we help companies better understand their customers by offering a package of bespoke underwriting, fraud detection, and analytics services. With offices in Chicago, Miami, and around the world through the power of remote work, we are a lean and innovative team always seeking like-minded talent to join us in our fight to disrupt consumer finance.

The Software Engineer in Test will be responsible for boosting the testing efficiency of the entire Engineering department by building test tools, services, and frameworks for our complex lending platform. This person will work closely with QA, Dev, and Dev Ops.

The right candidate loves building tools for technical people. This person knows that a good tool is composed of a few things:

The right candidate is a developer who thinks testing is exciting and believes all forms of testing (manual to automated) can be made faster, more efficient, and more accurate with the right kind of tools.

You will:

• Work closely with Dev Ops on improving the general execution time of our automated regression system.
• Build custom Python and Ruby libraries that generate test data such as Credit Ninja customers that can be approved for a loan in testing.
• Improve the quality of QA's automated testing development by designing and implementing better abstractions for the QA team to use when constructing regression tests.
• Integrate into various 3rd party test tools to expand the type of testing QA can do.
• Build a system to track the long term QA metrics desired by the VP of Engineering such as the probability of test failure based on historical unit/regression test runs and code churn.

• 5+ years of professional experience as a backend software engineer for non-trivial web applications
• 3+ years of professional experience in Ruby on Rails Ruby
• Experience working with Frontend developers
• Strong communication ability to describe complex problems and solutions
• Experience building libraries, CLI tools, and service for developers and QA
• Strong ability to write technical documentation.
• Experience setting up and enhancing CI/CD pipelines.

• Extensive experience using SQL and working with Postgres
• Strong experience in QA or Dev Ops
• Experience in Data Driven testing

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Flexible, remote work
• Fun, fast-paced work environment
• Dynamic start-up culture
  
  Ability to make an immediate impact in a growth stage company
• Convenient downtown Chicago office located in the heart of the city
• Equal opportunity employer

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for current or future visa sponsorship.

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