Lead Software Engineer in Test

About Us

Viva.com is Europe’s first acquirer powering merchant payments acceptance across 24 countries and 1.165+ devices. With an ECB approved banking license and presence in 24 European markets, Viva.com’s Tap on Any Device technology for in-store payments, Smart Checkout payment gateway for online payments, and marketplace payment solution, help European businesses of any size to accept and manage payments how they want. All of Viva.com’s technology is built in-house over MS Azure, and is fully scalable, supporting any payment checkout journey.

Viva.com provides a seamless, conversion-boosting omnichannel payments platform, featuring acceptance of 40+ payment methods across 17 languages and 9 currencies. Viva.com’s ever-expanding financial services' suite includes value added features such as Real-Time Settlement; Offline Payments minimizing chances of losing a sale; a Viva.com business debit card to manage corporate expenses, while reducing acceptance fees to as low as 0%; Merchant Advance. 

Role Overview

The Lead Software Engineer in Test (Lead SET) holds a critical leadership position within the quality assurance and software development teams. Apart from the hands-on technical contributions, the Lead SET is responsible for overseeing the design, development, and implementation of test automation frameworks and strategies that ensure the high quality, performance and scalability of the company's software products.

This role combines advanced technical expertise in test automation and software development with strong leadership skills to guide and mentor a team of software engineers in test in the areas of automated testing, test architecture and continuous integration, ensuring best practices in test automation and overall software quality engineering. You will work closely with stakeholders to define quality metrics, improve test processes and drive the adoption of advanced testing methodologies, ensuring high-quality software delivery which meets business objectives in a flexible, collaborative and rapidly changing delivery environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of SETs, providing technical guidance, support and performance feedback;
• Manage the day-to-day activities and the workload of the test team to ensure efficient and effective testing efforts;
• Develop and implement test strategies for new features, releases and products in collaboration with cross-functional teams;
• Oversee the design and maintenance of scalable and reliable automated test frameworks for UI, API, performance and integration testing;
• Develop and maintain reusable test scripts, libraries and utilities to support automated test execution;
• Ensure that automation solutions integrate seamlessly with CI/CD pipelines and contribute to the overall DevOps strategy;
• Ensure that the test team creates detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases for the automated tests;
• Monitor the execution of automated tests in a continuous integration environment, analyze results and ensure defects are properly tracked and resolved;
• Establish and track key performance metrics related to test automation coverage, execution time, defect density and release quality;
• Identify opportunities for test automation, process improvements and testing best practices to enhance overall product quality and testing efficiency.

To be considered you should have:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field;
• 4+ years of experience in software development, test automation or software quality engineering;
• Solid understanding of software development, QA methodologies, tools and processes;
• Proficiency in object-oriented programming languages (Java is preferred);
• Deep experience with test automation tools and frameworks like Selenium, Appium, Maven, Gradle, Cucumber, Rest API or similar;
• Experience integrating automated testing solutions with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI or other relevant tools;
• Expertise in API testing tools (e.g. Postman, REST-assured) and excellent knowledge of RESTful services;
• Familiarity with SQL queries for validating data integrity and back-end functionality;
• Knowledge of performance testing tools like JMeter, Gatling or equivalent tools for measuring and analyzing system performance;
• Understanding of cloud platforms (e.g. Azure) and experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes);
• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving abilities;
• Excellent communication, organizational and interpersonal skills;
• Proven experience in leading a test automation team would be considered a plus.

💸  Competitive compensation package;

Annual bonus based on your performance and targets’ achievement;

🏥 Private health insurance for you and your family;

💻 Top of the Line tools and equipment;

🏃🏽‍♂️ Employee Wellness Program like Daily group sessions led by professional coaches;  

📚 Career development and regular feedback to develop your skills.