Senior QA Engineer (Manual & Automation, English)

Officially certified as Great Place to Work 2023, with 93% of employees saying yes to “This is a great place to work”.

Welcome to SMG Swiss Marketplace Group AG

We are a pioneering network of online marketplaces and a leading European digital company that simplifies people’s lives with forward-looking products.

A little bit about us to help ignite your imagination

SMG Swiss Marketplace Group AG came together following the merger of Scout24 Switzerland and TX Markets in 2021,  a union that included some of Switzerland’s most well-known leading marketplaces.

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)

Become a part of our winning team at SMG:

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 fast-paced 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 as Autoscout24, Motoscout24, and CAR FOR YOU. 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 does deep root cause analysis followed by recommended action items. 
  • Tracks defects and helps troubleshoot errors.