QA Engineer

About Lyst Lyst is a leading fashion marketplace - we partner with the world’s top fashion brands and stores to provide people with a personalised way to discover and shop for fashion online. From launch in 2011, Lyst is growing quickly and already generates tens of millions of dollars in sales for the hundreds of brands, retailers and publishers it partners with around the world. Lyst is backed by a range of all-star of investors including Accel (Facebook, Spotify), DFJ (Skype), and those behind Oscar de la Renta, Smythson and Tory Burch. Our London HQ is in the heart of Shoreditch, housed in an iconic building - formerly occupied by the White Cube Gallery - symbolising East London creativity. When we aren’t making shopping for fashion even better for our millions of customers, we have fun together with weekly yoga, poker, football, pub quizzes, etc. We care deeply about helping the tech industry become a more inclusive and diverse place and we work hard to lead by example. Does testing a world-class software implementation at a small, fast paced, and extremely promising company sound good to you? Building an automated build, test and release system from the ground up? Routing out performance bottlenecks simulating hundreds of transactions from thousands of users? Responsibilities: Certify our software releases for functionality and performance on the web and mobile apps. Define and develop test automation strategy for regression testing. Implement quality assurance methodologies and procedures to improve software quality. Define and track quality improvement metrics. From design documentation to back end performance, manage all aspects of defect tracking throughout the software development process. Maintain continuous integration systems and test environments for build, testing and release. Requirements: Appropriate experience with a high level scripting language, preferably Python. Experience load and performance testing and monitoring of high-traffic web sites. Front-end automation expertise with tools such as Selenium and KIF. Expertise in defect tracking within an Agile environment. Highly proficient in a Unix/Linux environment. Solid understanding of the full web technology stack (e.g. HTTP, cookies, headers, asset loading / caching). Good knowledge of Git or other distributed version control systems. QA Environment Python 2.7, Selenium, KIF, mechanize, BrowserStack, Git, Jenkins, Jira (Agile), Confluence DEV Environment PostgreSQL, nginx, django, EC2, DynamoDB, ElasticCache, Redis, Zabbix, Graphite, StatsD