Software Engineer in Test

Engineering @ XE

Helping our customers find what they are looking for easily, quickly and unambiguously is the sole most important factor that influences what we do in Engineering at xe.gr. Our engineers focus on developing high traffic and always-on web applications specialized in classifieds, optimizing our systems for performance and resilience and delivering features that make the journey of our customers easier. All of our systems are running in the AWS cloud and we make extensive use of AWS services.

Joining our engineering team means you'll be actively shaping the company's future by driving innovation with state-of-the-art technologies.

About the job opportunity

This is a technical role with frequent liaison with everyone in the engineering and product teams, so good communication skills are vital. You will be a part of all testing activities and you will author new test suites and maintain existing ones so that everyone can run automated tests. Be prepared to participate in exploratory testing activities in order to better understand some of our most complex systems.

What Will I Be Doing?

As a member of the Quality Assurance team you will:

• Daily communicate with software and product developers, system administrators and stakeholders in order to identify testing requirements, on a daily basis.
• Participate in the software development life cycle and provide QA-related feedback. Keep track of quality assurance metrics and know when to raise a red flag.
• Propose and implement detailed, meaningful and maintainable test suites for automated smoke, integration and end-to-end testing.
• Spread the QA culture and train internal teams to use the test suites that you help create.

What skills do I need?

• You should be familiar with translating requirements and acceptance criteria to test cases, test suites, both manual and automated and executing them.
• You will need to have at least a couple of years of experience with JavaScript or Java and be willing to cultivate skills in both languages. You will also need hands-on experience with Selenium, TestNG, and Jenkins.
• In an ideal world, you will have a deep understanding of all the systems that make an HTTP round trip possible and be used to testing REST APIs using tools like Postman as well as in automated tests.
• Some Playwright experience would be nice.
• Υou will need to be observant, with strong attention-to-detail skills.
• You have the patience and persistence to thoroughly check the same piece of code or feature again and again, until all required tests pass.
• Greek candidates need to have fulfilled military obligations
• Fluency in Greek and good command of English language are required.

Where will I be working?

Our current policy over office attendance is that of a hybrid model allowing our engineers to work remotely while meeting up a few times per week at the office.

Engineers that are based outside Athens are considered fully remote employees while always being welcome to join us at the office for a team event!

From the beginning of 2023, apart from our Athens office, there is also the alternative to work in our newly renovated office in Ioannina city.

What happens when I apply?

The first step in our hiring process is to review your CV. If you seem to be qualified for this position, we will be having a quick phone call with you to welcome you to the process and we will give you a take home code challenge to work on your own time. Once we receive your response to the challenge, the next step is its evaluation from our Engineering managers. Depending on the challenge review, our HR team will inform you for the last recruiting stage which is an interview (virtual or physical) with the recruiting team (HR and Engineers).

The interview time is focused on cultural fit and technical discussion mainly on the code challenge you have sent.

We offer

• Group Health Insurance program.
• Competitive salary dependent on the candidate's skills and performance.
• A great opportunity to grow and work closely with a talented team with more than 60 engineers, in a modern, human-centric and friendly working environment.
• Remote work options.
• High tech IT equipment.

Diversity statement

At xe.gr we support human rights and focus on creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. All candidates are treated equally, regardless of race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion.