QA Automation Engineer, Moonshot
Maternity Cover, 9 Months
€66.5-76k
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Anti-extremism data analysis and advertising
Be an early applicant
Anti-extremism data analysis and advertising
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
€66.5-76k
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To end online harms and provide vulnerable people with positive, supportive messages and services.
Role
Who you are
- Are you passionate about technology and driven to tackle online harms?
- Is passionate about producing high-quality, user-focussed software systems and maintaining excellence
- Understands how to test software handling large-scale data collection, processing, and analysis
- Thrives in high-performance team environments built on mutual trust and continuous improvement
- Wants to develop both technical and leadership skills in a mission-driven organisation
- Deeply cares about using your skills to solve the complex problems to which your software applies
- 5+ years of software testing experience, including at least 3 years writing and executing automated tests in Java and Python
- Strong working knowledge of test automation tools for REST APIs, UIs, and/or data processing pipelines, particularly Jenkins, Selenium/Playwright, and Postman
- Experience defining and executing test cases and scenarios
- Ability to test software features in isolation and conduct full regression testing
- Experience retrofitting test automation to existing systems
- Demonstrated ability to prepare and maintain appropriate test data
- Comfortable working with various data types (databases, files, queues, etc.)
- Experience tracking bugs and defects through their entire lifecycle
- Experience with cloud-based software, especially AWS
- Proficiency with DevOps and CI/CD practices (source code management, containerisation, build/deployment tools)
- Resilience in ambiguous situations with ability to approach challenges from multiple perspectives
- Quick learner with excellent problem-solving and communication skills
- Eligibility to work in Ireland (required and will be verified)
- Experience using Jira and Confluence
- Awareness of secure-software testing practices such as OWASP
- Proactive at spotting opportunities for improvements that unblock teams and enhance delivery capabilities
Desirable
- Familiarity with and passion for countering online harms including violent extremism, disinformation, and gender-based violence
- Well-versed in Scrum and/or Kanban methodologies
- Comfortable working with and testing data flows (processing pipelines, ETL workflows)
- Experience with performance, stress, or load testing
- Adept at anticipating failure scenarios and testing accordingly
- Familiarity with data processing algorithms
- Relevant QA/testing certification
What the job involves
- We have an exciting opportunity for a Quality Assurance Automation Engineer to join Moonshot on a fixed-term maternity cover contract, supporting our Product Engineering team
- Testing user-focused products at pace in an environment that promotes agile methodologies and continuous collaboration
- Developing test automation suites for new and existing software systems and capabilities
- Preparation and execution of test scenarios
- Preparation and maintenance of test data sets
- Ensuring software is fully tested for happy-path and negative/failure scenarios
- Participating in code reviews, providing and receiving constructive feedback
- Writing clear and unambiguous bug and defect reports, and tracking through lifecycle
- Reporting quality status to immediate team and product/business stakeholders
- Assisting developers with issue investigation and reproduction
Our take
Events such as the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville and the January 6 Insurrection are a grim warning of the dangers of allowing extremist material to spread unchecked. Unfortunately, the internet makes this content easy to access, with extremists able to spread their message to vulnerable people across social media and through web searches. Moonshot CVE exists to counter this trend with data analysis and careful advertising strategies.
Unlike other ways of preventing access to dangerous materials, such as site blocking and blacklisted search terms, Moonshot uses its Redirect Method to purchase ad space alongside extremist content. Not all of the advertising is designed to counter extremism, but it humanises the targets of propaganda and offers an alternative for people who would otherwise go on to be radicalised by extremist materials. This was trialled effectively against ISIS and was rolled out to combat white supremacists and dangerous conspiracy theories.
Moonshot closed a funding round in 2022 that will be used to drive its international expansion and increase the range of its operations. It is focusing on forming partnerships with tech companies like Google and Facebook to protect their users from extremist content, and is working to develop corporate security products to complement its offering.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jun 2021
$7m
SERIES A
Total funding: $7m
Company benefits
- 30 daysʼ paid annual leave
- Private healthcare package, including coverage for partners and children
- Employee Assistance Programme providing access to mental health support
- Generous maternity and paternity package
Company HQ
Farringdon, London, UK
Leadership
Vidhya Ramalingam
(Co-CEO)Board Member for Life After Hate. Was previously a Research Affiliate at the University of Oxford and a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue.
Ross Frenett
(Co-CEO)Co-Chair for the Radicalisation Awareness Network. Was Director at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, and before that a freelance Terrorism Analyst.
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