Senior Automation QA Engineer (C#) at Social Discovery Group

Social Discovery Group (SDG) is a global technology company that builds apps at the intersection of dating, social, and entertainment. The company's portfolio includes 70 social discovery platforms with a focus on AI, game mechanics, and video streaming. We actively support and invest in social discovery startups worldwide through our CVC fund.

More than 500 million people in 150 countries enjoy our products, and we strive to have ten times as many.

SDG invests in social discovery technology startups around the world. Our Investments include Open AI, Patreon, Flo, RAW, EVA AI, Clubhouse, Magnet, Woebot, Flure, Astry, Coursera, Academia, Harbour, Space, Auto1, DocSend, AppAnnie, Rapyd, Boom Supersonic, Trading, View, K-Health and many others.

We solve the problem of loneliness, isolation, and disconnection with the help of digital reality.

Our digital nomad team of more than 1200 professionals works all over the world. Together, we are solving the prevalent problem of loneliness and shaping Social Life 3.0 — a new digital reality where people will be able to fulfil their needs for communication and attention from other people and artificial life forms.

Our teams of digital nomads live and work remotely from Cyprus, Malta, the USA, Thailand, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Japan, Australia, Poland, Israel, Turkey, Latvia and many others.

We are looking for a Senior Test Automation Engineer.

Main Requirements:

• Experience in testing web services (backend APIs) using Postman, Insomnia, Curl, or other similar tools;
• Knowledge of REST API principles and the HTTP protocol;
• Ability to write from scratch or maintain (extend or modify) a web service testing framework;
• Understanding and practical application of object-oriented programming principles;
• Participation in code reviews (pull requests);
• Involvement in web service releases (preparation and overseeing the deployment to production);
• Experience in web services troubleshooting (log analysis, code debugging);
• Ability to formalize business requirements and write well-structured test cases;
• Capability to independently assess and complete tasks;
• Good technical English (reading and writing);
• At least 3 years of production experience with C#;
• Experience writing LINQ queries and understanding functional programming in C#;
• Experience with asynchronous and parallel code execution and testing;
• Proficiency with Entity Framework or other similar ORM frameworks;
• Knowledge of SQL and understanding the principles of relational databases and how they differ from other types of databases;
• Ability to work with the command line (Windows and Linux);
• Experience with Git;
• Ability to write and debug UI tests using Selenium;
• Experience with TeamCity, Azure Pipelines, or similar build systems.

Would be a plus:

• Having code examples on GitHub is a plus;
• You may create a mini-framework for testing or your own client for any open API for example,
• Experience with Octopus Deploy, Kubernetes, Docker, Elastic Stack (ELK);
• Strong knowledge of relational databases (indexes, transactions, data normalization);
• Familiarity with other types of databases (MongoDB, Redis);
• Experience working with clients or collaborating with other teams to resolve service integration issues.

What do we offer:

• REMOTE OPPORTUNITY to work full time;
• Vacation 28 calendar days per year;
• 7 wellness days per year (time off) that can be used to deal with household issues, to lie down and recover without taking sick leave;
• Bonuses up to $5000 for recommending successful applicants for positions in the company;
• Full payment for professional training, international conferences and meetings;
• Corporate discount for English lessons;
• ​Health benefits. If you are not eligible for corporate medical insurance, the company will compensate you with up to $ 1,000 gross per year per employee, according to the paychecks. This can be spent on self-purchase of health insurance or on doctor’s fees for yourself and close relatives (spouse, children);
• ​Workplace organization. The company provides all employees with an equipped workplace and all the necessary equipment (table, armchair, wifi, etc.) in our offices or co-working locations. In the other locations, the company provides reimbursement of workplace costs up to $ 1000 gross once every 3 years, according to the paychecks. This money can be spent on the rent of the co-working room, on equipping the working place at home (desk, chair, Internet, etc.) during those 3 years;
• Internal gamified gratitude system: receive bonuses from colleagues and exchange them for time off, merch, team building activities, massage certificates, etc.

Sounds good? Join us now!