Software Mobile QA/Automation Engineer, Block
Office located in Kitchener, Ontario
Financial services ecosystem
Job no longer available
Financial services ecosystem
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
Office located in Kitchener, Ontario
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create better tools to help everyone access the economy.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of relevant manual & automation technical experience with at least 2+ years of experience in mobile device automation & testing on iOS or Android (including phones and tablets)
- Passionate about Quality and breaking the app to catch all issues during internal testing
- Experience in Native App automation testing frameworks such as Espresso, XCUITest/XCTest or KIF
- Experience in code/scripting language such as Java or Kotlin on Android, Swift on iOS
- Experience working with CI systems (Jenkins, Buildkite)
- Experience working in an Agile / Scrum development environment
- Experience creating concise test suites
- Liaison with Product teams, Engineering teams, and QA teams
- Experience working through technical issues to both engineers and product managers
What the job involves
- The Point of Sale (POS) mobile applications are the main entry point through which merchants work with Square
- The cross point of sale team known as "XPOS" is an engineering organization of 70+ engineers responsible for building and testing features that are shared across the fleet of Square's point-of-sale apps
- You will report into the QA lead of the XPOS engineering team and work to ensure the quality test criteria is met via manual or automation testing before shipping the final product
- We're looking for an experienced and passionate Sr. Software Mobile QA/Automation Engineer to plan, design, develop and execute the manual & automated test suites for the Point of Sale system
- You will review product requirement documents, design specifications and work closely with developers, automation engineers, quality organization, product and engineering teams to plan for testing of existing/new features and their automated solutions, including interacting with Square hardware
- Work side-by-side with developers and peers to develop manual & automated test suites for existing and new features on Android, iOS & Squid devices
- Drive QA Strategy of exhaustive testing for new features with cross-functional POS teams and ensure that there is no slippage of product requirements
- Drive automation strategy including framework level improvements and enhance automation coverage to improve the current testing process to help increase the productivity and efficiency of the Engineering teams
- Provide meaningful reviews on PRs opened by other peers
- Come up with quarterly automation roadmap and execute the roadmap
- Integrate with CI/CD systems
- Parallelize test execution over device cloud
- Define and track important quality metrics to guide quality improvements
- Escalate important bugs and work with developers to prioritize fixes
Our take
Block is a financial services technology company comprising of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, and TBD. Its biggest brand, Square, offers hardware and software for small to medium-sized businesses enabling them to manage the entire payment lifecycle. It functions similarly to Shopify and Stripe, but has paired online payment processing with physical devices such as registers, payment terminals, and mobile card readers.
The business was originally founded as Square in 2009 by Jack Dorsey of Twitter fame. Already well-established with SMEs all over the globe, Square has significantly benefited from the increased demand for mobile payment systems. Its order management feature remains a go-to tool for small businesses that otherwise didn't have the proper infrastructure in place when demand for home delivery surged.
Square rebranded as Block in December 2021, with the Square brand name remaining in place for their seller business. The company has since come under fire for its security practices, facing lawsuits in relation to a major breach of CashApp user data, and in 2024 announced plans to reduce its workforce in order to cut costs. Despite these setbacks, there is every chance the business will move past this, though it may take some time to rebuild trust in its product.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Healthcare coverage (Medical, Vision and Dental insurance)
- Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account
- Retirement Plans including company match
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Wellness programs, including access to mental health, 1:1 financial planners, and a monthly wellness allowance
- Paid parental and caregiving leave
- Paid time off (including 12 paid holidays)
- Paid sick leave (1 hour per 26 hours worked (max 80 hours per calendar year to the extent legally permissible) for non-exempt employees and covered by our Flexible Time Off policy for exempt employees)
- Learning and Development resources
- Paid Life insurance, AD&D, and disability benefits
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Jack Dorsey
(CEO)Having studied at and dropped out of New York University, Jack founded Twitter in March 2006, where he has served as CEO since. He co-founded Square with Jim in February 2009, and has remained its CEO ever since.
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