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Natter
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Staff Quality Assurance Engineer
Location Remote - GMT */-3hrs
Employment Type Full time
Location Type Remote
Department Engineering
OverviewApplication
Natter’s conversational AI platform allows tens of thousands of users to simultaneously share ideas and feedback in real-time video conversations, maximizing participation and facilitating deeply-human responses. Millions of qualitative comments from these dialogues are instantly analyzed and summarized into insights and recommendations that help Leaders make the strategic decisions required to support and inspire outdated, homogenous workforces.
ABOUT NATTER
️ Natter harnesses the power of AI and video to give everyone a voice.
Built by a team of ex-Uber, WeWork and Amazon builders, Natter has selectively hired a team of exited founders, specialist domain experts and SaaS unicorn founding team members. They are now looking for an additional team hire: a Staff QA Engineer.
Natter is already being used by some of the world’s largest companies, ranging from big four consultancies like PwC, institutional financial services providers like Legal and General, to technology innovators like Miro.
Natter’s conversational AI platform allows tens of thousands of users to simultaneously share ideas and feedback through real-time video conversations. Its uniquely scalable tech allows anyone with a smartphone to, literally, have a say on the most important decisions - ranging from workplace strategy to new product offerings.
Remote (EU) (GMT +- 3 hours)
STAFF QA ENGINEER RESPONSIBILITIES
You'll be stepping into a role that offers not only technical challenges but also unparalleled ownership and autonomy to shape the innovative Natter platform...
Serving clients with workforces numbering tens of thousands of users, there’s a need to deliver a stable, robust and scalable platform to cope with high levels of concurrent users. This role suits someone passionate about shipping high-quality products at the cutting edge of AI innovation.
Act as a technical leader and subject matter expert in quality assurance practices, test automation, and tooling across the engineering team.
Identify systemic quality issues and process bottlenecks, proposing and leading initiatives to improve development lifecycle efficiency, test effectiveness, and overall product quality.
Collaborate with peers across engineering and product to define, align on, and advocate for consistent quality standards, best practices, and effective testing approaches.
Pioneer and champion the adoption of new testing tools, technologies, and methodologies to enhance quality practices and team productivity.
Keep a high bar for technical excellence in the collective, through your own work, highlighting the work of others and calling out when things haven’t quite met the bar.
Foster a culture of quality within your collective. Proactively championing measures to test work, and gets buy-in from stakeholders when this is not appreciated.
What you’ll be using:
We Rely Heavily On The Following Tools And Technologies
Typescript & Playwright to write and maintain our end-to-end tests
Qase to manage our test case suite
Github & Gitlab for source control
Sentry & Datadog for metrics & monitoring
AWS for our production and staging environments
We’d love to hear from you if…
You have 5+ years' experience in software quality assurance, with a proven track record in senior or lead roles driving quality initiatives
You have deep expertise in designing, building, and maintaining scalable test automation frameworks
You are proficient with modern CI/CD pipelines and understand how to integrate automated testing effectively
You’re comfortable working in a team that deals with ambiguity and have experience helping your team resolve that ambiguity
You have a track record of technical excellence, delivering resilient systems, ideally behind consumer products
❤️
Desirable
Previous experience testing high-performant, high-load frontend applications
Previous experience in a Software Development role
Experience testing an application relying heavily on event-driven architecture
Expertise in Performance Engineering and tools: Beyond just running tests, understanding profiling & bottleneck analysis
Experience in and enjoyment of early stage/startup environments
What’s In It For You
✈️ Quarterly international team offsite
Remote & flexible work policy
⛱️ Five weeks paid annual leave
Company laptop and supporting tech as necessary
Mindfulness/meditation sessions for all employees
Complimentary daily breakfast and weekly lunch provided In office
Dedicated, private office space in Aldwych, London
The application journey has 4 key steps
Our interview process involves four main stages after an informal recruiter call:
30 min screening interview
Offline take-home exercise / assessment
Live interview & review of take-home exercise
Final stage 30 min chat with the CEO
This process should take around 3-4 weeks - your schedule is really important to us, so we promise to be as flexible as possible!
You will have the chance to speak to our recruitment team at various points during your process but if you do have any specific questions or want to talk through reasonable adjustments ahead of or during application please us at any point on
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