Quality Assurance Engineer, Aventus
Enterprise-grade blockchain
Job no longer available
Enterprise-grade blockchain
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
21-100 employees
Company mission
To enable companies in any ecosystem to capitalise on a vast series of use cases – including NFTs, video games, loyalty schemes, event ticketing, supply chain provenance, and cargo management – via enterprise-grade modular architecture and future-proof themselves via blockchain interoperability.
Role
Who you are
- We are seeking an experienced and detail‑oriented QA Engineer who is well-versed in test automation and who is interested in a QA role that covers products built with different tech stacks
- The role requires creation of the appropriate combination of components, integration, functional, stability, soak, performance, stress, security, and other testing, as well as tools and processes necessary to ensure the continuous operation of Aventus network at the required SLA levels
- 3+ years of experience as a Test Engineer / SDET / Automation Tester for an enterprise platform product
- Demonstrable experience developing in JavaScript or other scripting languages
- Familiarity with concepts such as APIs, messaging queues, distributed systems, software libraries, and Linux command line tools
- Ability to clearly communicate test results (using relevant tooling/dashboards)
- Knowledge of git, branching, continuous integration testing, and test automation
- Familiar with different testing strategies and able to elaborate on their advantages and disadvantages
- Opinions on what technologies and standards we should use now and in the future
- Working with agile, cross-functional teams
- Knowledge of different testing paradigms (unit, integration, systems, acceptance) and when to apply them
- Great interpersonal skills and a willingness to go above and beyond when collaborating with the rest of the team
- Ability to propose solutions and take ownership of their own work
- Ability to quickly grasp complex problems and turn them into productive work
- Ability to talk to developers as well as product owners to identify flaws in coverage
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and in writing
- Prior knowledge of blockchain development (more specifically Ethereum) and the underlying technologies, including consensus, decentralization, financial incentives, and cryptographic protocols
- Experience with Parity’s Substrate, or a willingness to learn the architecture
- Experience with Network Security testing and penetration testing
- Experience with Performance/Load Testing
- Experience with Docker
- Relevant Software Testing certifications
- Familiar with several testing frameworks, possibly across different languages
- Experience in developing or extending testing frameworks
What the job involves
- The mission of the QA engineer is to define and implement QA best practices, build robust test automation suites, and develop security‑focused testing frameworks to ensure our products are robust and enterprise-grade
- In addition to platform development, Aventus runs production PaaS offerings for AvN, such as an API gateway and custom-built integrations with clients’ enterprise applications
- Research and implement new technologies and techniques to help support various parts of the testing process for the platform, including both functional and non-functional tests of the API and core node functionality
- Help measure how closely the product meets our quality goals and highlight risks
- Contribute to the development of an overall testing strategy and suggest any relevant test frameworks to use
- Think autonomously to lead the design and development of complex test scenarios and test cases
- Help the development team create test plans on new work items before development starts.
- Look for security vulnerabilities in internally developed systems
- Highlight gaps in test coverage and develop guidelines that encourage better
- Define and lead best practices for achieving higher test reliability and speed
- Lead the design and implementation of automated integration tests
- Contribute to continuous improvement and proactively support knowledge sharing across the entire team
Our take
The rapid development of blockchain technology continues, helping in the verification and traceability of multistep transactions. However, layer-one blockchain networks such as Ethereum are ill adept to scale, handling a meagre number of transactions per second. Aventus is a layer-two blockchain protocol for Ethereum transactions, relieving applications from the throughput limitations of the Ethereum blockchain network.
Aventus was founded in 2016, initially to tackle event ticketing by bringing transparency to ticketing lifecycles and providing security to the transfer and validity of tickets, ultimately reducing ticket fraud. The layer-two nature of Aventus ensures a fast enough transaction speed to make such uses deployable, whilst retaining the protections of the layer-one blockchain. Use cases of Aventus’ network have extended to include video game currencies and collectables, loyalty schemes, and NFTs.
Aventus recently partnered with Scytale Ventures and received grant funds that helped it become a Polkadot parachain, making the network interoperable with the growing Polkadot network as well as Ethereum. The company is exploring new uses for the network, with the possibility of progression into finance, advertising, sports and more.
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Company
Company HQ
Finsbury, London, UK
Leadership
Alan Vey
(Co-founder & Chairman)Co-Founder and Chairman of VereNFT. Co-founder and former Board Member of Artos Systems and of FanDragon Technologies. Also co-founded Labthi.ng.
Annika Monari
(Co-founder)Founder and CEO of Ask Coral. Co-founder and former CEO of Artos Systems. Also co-founded Labthi.ng.
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