QA Engineer

We are on a mission to make science open so everyone can live healthy lives on a healthy planet

Who we are

Frontiers is the 3rd most-cited and 6th largest research publisher and we publish groundbreaking discoveries by the world's top experts.

Scientists empower society and our mission is to accelerate scientific discovery by making science open. We place the researcher at the center of everything we do and enable the research community to develop the solutions we need to live healthy lives on a healthy planet.

Join the publishing revolution.

By working at

Frontiers

, you will play a key role in shaping the future of science and academic publishing. You will join a thriving company where your contribution will have an immediate effect on the way science is evolving.

**Responsibilities**:
- Work with our Machine Learning engineers to ensure that the services’ implementation addresses functional and non-functional requirements, and meets high quality standards.- Closely collaborate with our Machine Learning Team Lead in designing solutions and defining acceptance criteria to guarantee scalable integration with our core products.- Design and automate test cases to validate our Machine Learning services using a variety of data sets.- Test APIs and backend services.- Report and document technical issues, and follow them up through the complete bug life cycle.- Ability to work with large data sets presented in different formats and to troubleshoot possible data-related issues.- Define metrics to track the quality of our data, models, and APIs.- Communicate with stakeholders to ensure streamlined service integration and release.- Conduct post-release testing.

Required Qualifications:
- 3+ years of experience as a QA Engineer in the Agile environment.- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent combination of technical education and work experience.- Strong experience with API testing.- Coding skills (Python preferred).- Experience with writing automation tests.- Experience in integrating tests in CI/CD pipelines.- Interest in Machine Learning techniques, data structures, algorithms, statistics.- Demonstrated experience in test planning, test design, test strategy, and test execution.- Strong analytical skills to identify the root cause and cause/effect relations.- Methodical, curious, a self-starter, and passionate about quality.- Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills.- Good English skills, we are an international company and English is our working language.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Python coding skills.- Experience working in an Agile environment.- Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases.- Experience with Azure DevOps pipelines.- Experience with Docker.- Experience with supervised and unsupervised Machine Learning algorithms.

**Benefits**:
With more than 50 nationalities represented in our global team, you will work regularly with teammates in other countries, and with our community of researchers, editors, and authors from around the globe.

Our mission to create solutions for healthy lives also extends to the working environment we provide for our employees.

This includes:
100% remote working

Employees now have the flexibility to choose where they want to work, with remote working available on a part
- or full-time basis (not applicable to some Workplace/IT jobs due to nature of role requiring presence onsite, in the office).

Learning and development

All employees have access to LinkedIn Learning (and Pluralsight for our technology team), an annual personal learning budget, and dedicated L&D time.

Wellbeing

We offer free online yoga classes, an employee assistance plan, access to the Headspace app, and four wellbeing days on top of your annual leave allowance.

Volunteering opportunities

Employees can dedicate three days each year to volunteer for a personal cause or through our volunteering partner platform, Alaya.
- Frontiers is committed to diversity in its workplace and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Frontiers considers all qualified applicants without discrimination, including on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, creed, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other protected classes. Frontiers is committed to offering an inclusive and accessible experience for all job seekers. Our goal is to cultivate a workplace where everyone has the opportunity to be successful. This includes individuals with disabilities. Please inform us if you require any special accommodation to participate fully in our recruitment experience._