QA Engineer

At Pinch we're looking for a QA Engineer to join our team.

Full-time - Amsterdam

**About us**:

- Do you want to work in a company with a start-up feel but functioning as an experienced mobile development agency? Do not miss out, join our international team of professionals that share the same passion as you. If you are a senior QA engineer, come and join our rapidly growing team. At Pinch we pride ourselves on creating top notch apps.**About you**:

- You are passionate about learning plus have a natural ability for self-development and helping others
- You write software for automated testing
- You know Agile testing methodologies like BDD, ATDD and can support the team in principles like specification by example
- You have a testing certificate like ISTQB or Tmap
- You can extend out CI/CD pipeline tools like Jenkins and add production monitoring where you think is relevant
- You have experience in mobile development and know Swift and/or Kotlin
- You possess knowledge of common design patterns in mobile development
- You can guide others and offer feedback when necessary
- You show enthusiasm, entrepreneurship and creativity
- You have a bachelors or university degree in IT related study
- You **live in the Netherlands**
- You speak fluent **English**

**The role**:
As a QA Tester it's your responsibility to maintain a high level of product quality. You work closely with our software development team in an Agile environment. Responsibilities:

- Design automated testing standards and practices
- Research, recommend, and implement tools as needed with the goal of increasing product quality
- Develop manual and automated test cases to increase regression coverage as well as new functionality testing
- Execute manual and automated test cases including exploratory testing as needed
- Working with the team on implementing and executing performance testing
- Build a risk-based test plan for each release
- Contribute to the ongoing efforts to refine and improve our test methodologies, software development processes, and internal testing tools
- Come up with innovative ideas to automate, and reduce manual effort and increase code test coverage

**Benefits**:

- Competitive salary
- Travel compensation; if you don’t live in Amsterdam, we make it easy for you
- Flexible working hours
- Hybrid working model; as long as you come once or twice to the office a week, you can organise your weeks however you like
- 26 paid holidays a year
- Pension scheme plan; because we want you to grow old with us
- Great office work environment; besides how nice the office looks, we count with a team of culturally diverse people who are enthusiastic about what they do and are always willing to lend a hand. Have some beers at the office in our weekly Vrijmibo
- Latest laptop and equipment to work with
- Many fun events and other activities; because there’s more to life than working. Being a part of the Pinch team also means to join conferences around the globe, enjoy fun parties and being involved in projects that shape and mould the future
- Endless opportunities for personal development; take a language course, learn some new skills, create some music,Personal and professional growth are equally as important to us
- Monthly hackathons; so you can work on your passion project without worrying about work
- Exciting and diverse projects; a good challenge is always entertaining

**Application process**:
Screening > 1st Interview > Assignment Completion > 2nd Interview > 3rd and Last Interview > **Offer