Lead / Expert QA Engineer (Manual & Automation)

SMG Swiss Marketplace Group (based in Switzerland) is a pioneering network of online marketplaces and a leading European digital company that simplifies people’s lives with forward-looking products.

Our four business areas include Automotive, Real Estate, General Marketplaces, and Finance and Insurance.

• Over 700 employees
• 13 Brands
• 8 physical offices in 5 countries
• 39.81M visits (October 2022)
• 10.77M users (October 2022):

SMG Swiss Marketplace Group Vietnam is an innovation center of SMG Group in Vietnam. We are officially named as one of the 2023 Asia & Vietnam Best Workplaces by the Great Place to Work Institute, the world's most well-known organization for work culture assessment.

We hire the best digital talents to meet the highest demands of our users and customers in Switzerland. In return, we offer an attractive, innovative, friendly, and stimulating work environment where you can reach your full potential, achieve your goals, and celebrate your successes.

About the role

This job refers to our Automotive brands, Autoscout24 and Motoscout24. We are journeying to simplify our products and strengthen our technology stack through a large-scale rewrite. We’re building on a modern technology stack with Java, following best practices, and striving to build/measure/learn at a high cadence. Here’s your chance to join a great product team that collaborates with designers, product managers, researchers, and engineers from other fields.

What will you do:

• Work as part of an agile team:
  • Be the voice of QA during agile ceremonies.
  • Collaborate with agile teams to ship valuable product increments.
  • Actively participate in ticket refinement/grooming by bringing up unforeseen scenarios and use cases.
• Perform thorough functionality tests:
  • Review acceptance criteria, developer notes, and design documents to formulate test cases. 
  • Test domain-driven web and mobile-based applications referencing database-heavy back-end systems and check the consistency across devices, browsers, and operating systems.
  • Conduct periodic exploratory testing in pre-production environments.
• Be responsible for product quality:
  • Work with the engineering teams to derive testing requirements throughout the development cycle.
  • Provide inputs on high-level test scenarios, challenges, risks, resources, test estimates, etc., during test planning meetings.
• Support Bug Triage process:
  • Reproduces debugs and isolates problems and verifies fixes.
  • Report any bugs/defects found in a clear, friendly, and easily reproducible manner.
  • Keep track of incidents and do deep root cause analysis followed by recommended action items. 
  • Tracks defects and helps troubleshoot errors.