About Bark

Bark is revolutionising the way people find professionals in over 1,000 unique categories. As the UK's largest and fastest-growing services marketplace, we're on a mission to make finding the right professional quick and easy. With a presence in eleven countries and plans for further expansion, joining us at this genuinely exciting time will be a journey like no other.

Our cutting-edge technology ensures that you can always find the best professional for any job. With a talented team of over 200 dedicated individuals, we're committed to providing exceptional service and ensuring that our customers are satisfied every step of the way.

This is an exciting time to join our scaling business, we recently placed in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2024, and previously were 64th in the Sunday Times 100 fastest growing private tech companies in 2023.

As a profitable scale-up, Bark is in a unique position to offer the best of both worlds; the excitement and agility of a start up combined with the financial security and backing of a renowned private equity firm, EMK Capital. You'll have ownership, agility, responsibility and stimulation without any of the worry.

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Mobile QA that can help advance our mobile team to the next level as we continue to grow our platform at scale internationally.

As part of this role you will be responsible for owning the QA flow / process / test suites within mobile. You will help us promote and ensure excellent software quality throughout our product through the creation and maintenance of automated tests within the Mobile app and across our APIs.
We are looking for a talented individual who enjoys complex challenges to further enhance our suite of automated tests as our product continues to evolve and become more complex over time. You will be hands-on in writing automated tests whilst also having the opportunity to help mentor the wider team on test automation.
This is a great opportunity to join a relatively small team in a role where you will have a genuine impact in helping us drive our future growth on an international scale out to millions of users across the globe.

*please note you must be based in Spain to be considered for this fully remote role

Responsibilities

• Define, develop and maintain our automated regression testing suite (written in Appium for Mobile and Cypress for backend API’s) for our key user journeys and beyond: Help us move away from Maestro and move fully to Appium

• Optimise and ensure that our regression suite is operational in CI/CD (we use Jenkins) pipelines across our test environments

• Help us establish new tools and evolve existing processes to help our team continue to efficiently test as we continue to scale internationally

• Help our teams work towards building and maintaining a healthy pattern of automated test coverage

• Be a quality mentor that infuses the team with testing best practices and process improvements throughout the software development lifecycle

• This role also includes some manual testing as and when required but the aim is to automate the test suites to reduce the reliance on this.

• Work closely with your engineering team throughout agile sprints

Required Skills and Experience

• 3-5+ years of hands-on experience in a QA role where you have been using automation to build test platforms on Mobile (Android + iOS) using Appium

• Proven, hands-on experience with writing, running and maintaining Appium tests (Javascript) in CI/CD pipelines

• Excellent analytical skills and experience in testing complex business rules through the creation, documentation and subsequent execution of well-written test plans that cover key user journeys and edge cases both by manual and automated means

• Writing and running API tests via Postman / Cypress

• Proficient with JavaScript and TypeScript

• Meticulous attention to detail and excellent written & verbal communication skills

• Driven, ambitious and keen to grow with us in a fast paced environment

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Maestro testing

• Jenkins

• Non-functional testing (performance and accessibility)

• Proficient with DataDog

Some of our benefits

• Fully remote working
• Personal annual L&D Budgets with 600€ to spend on your development
• Being at the forefront of an industry with new and exciting problems to solve

Interview Process

• Screening Call with Talent Partner (30 mins)
• 1st Stage - Hiring Manager Stage (30 mins)
• 2nd Stage - Technical Task (90 mins)
• 3rd Stage - Values interview (45 mins)

Diversity Statement

At Bark, we are a platform for people, revolutionising the way professionals and individuals connect since 2014. Our culture is defined by excitement, ambition, and a commitment to raising the bar. We value diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) and are dedicated to embedding these principles into everything we do. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive, and our focus is on hiring, retaining and developing a globally diverse workforce that is passionate about excelling our platform and supporting our customers succeed. Be part of our dynamic team, where bold ideas thrive, and create a future worth shouting about.