API and Load Testing QA Engineer

Ryanair Labs is the technology brand of Ryanair, a start-up inside a corporation and a state of-the-art digital & IT innovation hub creating Europe's Leading Travel Experience for customers.

In 2014 Ryanair decided to open the first state-of-the-art digital & IT innovation hub – Ryanair Labs Wroclaw. More than 200 IT enthusiasts working on 30+ projects with a collaboration with Dublin, Madrid and Portugal Labs are making your travel experience unique. As a result of our continued expansion, we want to hear from the best IT experts the European market has to offer to join our Labs.

We are looking for individuals who have a background in development / coding but also have a strong interest in Testing in particular Automated Testing. We believe here Automation plays a big part in how we go about our Development Cycle.

You will get to work on a varied amount of tools and languages. Build not just Automated Tests but tools that help how our Development Team test and develop. Help us performance test with the high loads Ryanair gets daily on all our platforms. Constantly solve technical issues using your automated tests on our large systems.

Ideal Candidates should be able to demonstrate:

• Enthusiasm for learning new skills and adapting quickly to new technologies
• Excellent communication skills
• The ability to take direction and to be able to think beyond the current set of tasks in order to effectively and fully exercise any application under test.
• The ability to lead/ mentor more junior team members and as well as be led.
• Good problem definition and analysis skills as well as an ability to present issues in a way that the development team can interpret to create solutions

Requirements

Previous Experience

• 1–2 years API testing or performance testing experience (Karate / REST Assured, Gatling / k6 / LoadRunner) or
• Masters / Bachelor Degree in Computing
• AWS

Desired Skills

• Load Testing (Gatling)
• REST API Test Automation (Karate)
• Atlassian application stack (Jira, Confluence, Stash)
• GIT
• SQL
• Linux / Unix
• Networking protocols
• Continuous integration (Jenkins)

Benefits

FORMS OF EMPLOYMENT/BENEFITS
Contract of employment (permanent contract after trial period)

• Possible hybrid model (3 days from any location in Europe, 2 days from the office)
• Staff travel benefits from day one
• Creative work tax deduction
• Multisport card
• Private health care
• Group insurance scheme

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B2B

• Full remote
• Possible permanent place in the office

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Other benefits

• Option to participate in trainings and conferences
• Possibility to meet your colleagues in other offices
• Annual events (i.e. St. Patrick’s Day 🍀)
• Regular social meetings 🍻
• Paid referral system
• New office building surrounded by great dinettes right in the city centre 🌆