Quality Assurance Engineer jobs in Rock Island, IL

TrendSpider is a professional tool for those who trade anything from stocks to cryptos. We provide smart retail traders, financial advisors and hedge funds with the market research and algo trading platform. The product is an ecosystem of inter-connected tools, which means that the range of variability in functionality is significant.  

TrendSpider development team needs a Quality Assurance engineer. As a Quality Assurance engineer, you will be responsible for the following:

1. Participate in working on details and descriptions for tasks for developers

2. Ensure that all the functionality we build has sufficient level of quality

   1. Work with developers to define required coverage for lower level automated test (unit tests, integration tests etc)

   2. Define required coverage for e2e tests and build them

   3. Provide sufficient coverage with manual testing

   4. Build tests plans so developers could check functionality they build

3. Make product decisions at a certain level of responsibility

4. Participate in adjusting the QA process to be up to date with the best practices

Here is what relevant experience is required at this position:

1. Writing test plans

2. Writing automated tests in JS using Puppeteer

3. Experience trading will be a significant advantage

Overall, we expect you to have experience working in a similar position for at least 3 years. 

The workflow on the team is a lightweight mix of scrum and kanban, with a low level of formality. There’s a small QA team, but engineers test their work too. The team is all remote, from Argentina to Ukraine. Languages are English and Russian. For this position, speaking both Russian and English fluently is a must.

At this position, you will also have a chance to work with active traders. You will be able to learn about markets and trading as a whole, dive into backtesting and algorithmic trading. In general, if you’re interested in trading and want to dive deep, then it’s the right place for you.