QA Engineer - Tooling team

About Alkemics

Alkemics is a B2B business platform enabling retailers to discover, negotiate and launch new products from their 1000+ suppliers.

In Europe alone, millions of products are launched every year, each with up to 500 attributes and made by one of 300,000+ manufacturers. Prior to Alkemics, establishing a commercial relationship required numerous back-and-forths between retailers and brands, physically (in trade shows, for instance) or pseudo-digitally (fax, email, XLS templates...) and between various teams (procurement, category management, quality, CSR, e-commerce, marketing...). Because of this painful process, it often took more than 60 days to launch a product. This situation is unsustainable at a time where consumers are demanding a broader product choice, more local products, where Amazon and Alibaba are raising the bar of omnichannel efficiency, and at a time where Lidl and Aldi are setting a standard for productivity.

Alkemics disrupted the space with a fully digital platform where brands create and share their product catalog. Retailers can explore those catalogs and run business workflows, searches or reportings to select, negotiate and list those products in their assortment. Once a retailer is on-boarded, invites are sent to that retailer’s suppliers to join the platform on a freemium basis, enabling quick network growth.

Alkemics was founded in Paris in 2012. With 98 out of the top 100 CPG manufacturers (Nestlé, Unilever, L’Oréal), the 7 largest retailers in France (E. Leclerc, Carrefour, Casino, Auchan, U-Enseigne, Cora, Metro…) and 4 of the largest UK retailers (Tesco, Ocado, Waitrose, Sainsbury) using the platform, Alkemics now holds a very strong and unchallenged position in the French and UK market. The business is now expanding internationally, starting with DACH and BENELUX. Along with international growth, the focus of the business is to leverage its platform and client relationships to build an end-to-end B2B marketplace with the ultimate vision of ordering directly within the platform.

Alkemics raised a total of $50M from tier-1 investors Index Ventures, Partech Ventures, Serena Capital and Cathay Innovation. Its latest funding round took place in April 2020, bringing in Highland Europe, a leading Growth VC. The business is made of 100 employees and is growing extremely rapidly.

Background

Online marketplaces are now commonplace for C2C and B2C markets. This trend has started in B2B sectors too, driving tremendous value and economies of scale. Today, thanks to a captive user base, Alkemics is in a strong position to “platformize” the notoriously difficult retail space. Brands are keen to have their products discovered in a more efficient and elegant way. Retailers are interested in negotiating products more quickly. Brands also want to better control the product introductions within each store.

As a member of the R&D team, the QA Engineer will coordinate and conduct testing as part of feature teams, improve testing tools as part of the QA Tooling team and:

• Develop test plans and test cases, run test scripts, provide test reports for each application
• Review functional specification and design documents to develop those test plans and ensure that all requirements are testable
• Actively participate in the process of automation and its improvement
• Report and record defect and bugs in a timely manner, assess their priority and severity, and close resolved ones
• Provide regular follow up on the applications quality, identifying issues and provide qualified reporting
• Ensure our action plans are on track and optimized, working closely with Product, Development and Support teams
• Improve the stability, efficiency and coverage of automated tests
• Create and improve automated tools to streamline the QA and CI workflows
• Continuously look for ways to improve the Quality Assurance process

on a product using cutting edge technologies:

• Python and Golang for backend
• Javascript with ReactJS + Redux for frontend
• Mysql, Couchbase, and Elasticsearch as data storage

and an automation stack using:

• Pytests and Behave frameworks with Python for our integration tests
• Webdriver.io with Javascript for our end-to-end tests
• Jenkins, Docker and Kubernetes for our CI

What we're looking for in you:

We're currently looking for an enthusiastic QA Engineer with experience in web and backend testing who:

• likes to work in a team and share his/her experience in an Agile environment
• has solid experience in test automation and validation
• is autonomous, rigorous, enthusiastic and adaptable
• is fluent in either French or English with ability to work in the other language
• has previous development or automation experience with Python and/or JavaScript
• has knowledge of Git versioning, API testing (with Postman), CI set-up with Jenkins
• loves to learn new technologies and create new tools
• familiarity with Docker or Kubernetes is a plus

What you’ll get from us?

• A true startup experience in one of the fastest growing startups in Paris
• Low bureaucracy and daily successes that have a real impact on the business
• You will participate to the team's growth and the revolution of the CPG industry
• A fast learning-curve with growing responsibilities
• Working with smart people, hungry to change the retail world and passionate for success