QA Engineer

Our 29-year journey rides on the passion of over 27,000 seafarers and 1,000 onshore professionals. Today, we are one of the largest independent third-party ship management companies managing over 650+ diverse types of vessels.

Headquartered in Hong Kong SAR, China, we operate on a global scale having 27 offices in 12 countries. Our client base spans over 100 world-class ship owners, including Fortune 500 companies from China, Greece, India, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, Norway, Turkey and the USA, among others.

In a shore career at FLEET, you will be working with a team of a highly passionate, self-driven and committed group of people. We aim to be a place where you can achieve your full potential, regardless of your background. We are looking for individuals who are ambitious about making a strong contribution to FLEET’s short and long-term sustainable growth – whether you are dealing directly with clients or working in a role supporting the business, such as technology, legal or communications.

Job Position Summary

An exciting and challenging opportunity has arisen for a Quality Assurance Engineer to contribute to all efforts across our IT programme which includes new solutions based around rebuilding our custom in-house PARIS platform.

The successful candidate will be responsible for participating in our team of IT professionals and ensuring the delivery of robust, sustainable and flexible solutions to best meet strategic goals.

This role is a key part of Fleet’s focus to develop leading digital capability to enhance and improve our platforms deployed over 600 ships

Key Roles and Responsibilities

As a Quality Assurance Engineer, your typical day might include:

Participating in the Quality Assurance of Front-end and Back-end Software
• Working closely with the development team to guarantee the quality for both front-end and back-end components following industry best-practices and in adherence with architectural principles
• Working with other Quality Assurance Engineers to guarantee the Quality of the overall platform. This includes functional and non-functional requirements such as performance, stability and security.
• Identify innovative solutions in line with technology trends to both demonstrate how the Quality Assurance team can help solve automation problems effectively and efficiently

Stakeholder Management & Communication
• Working closely with other Software Engineers, QA Engineers, UX Designers and Business Analysts, to understand needs and how best to deliver innovative solutions to meet expectations
• Communicating clearly and concisely Quality Assurance decisions with (other Quality Assurance) Engineers and other IT stakeholders in simple or technical terms

Teamwork
• Share experience, technical expertise, best practices and helping the IT team to overcome hurdles.
• Proactive mind-set in helping other Quality Assurance & Software Engineers if they require help or expertise.
• Working collaboratively with the rest of the IT team members – based onshore and offshore – to ensure that solutions delivered are high-quality and easy-to-support.

Relationship:

INTERNAL:
• Development Teams (based in HK & India); Ops & Support (based in HK & India);

EXTERNAL:
• Answering and helping external development teams.

Job Experience, Functional Knowledge and Qualifications

ESSENTIAL
• 3+ years’ experience in a Quality Assurance Engineering role working with JavaScript/TypeScript or Java
• Strong Quality Assurance mindset that can be demonstrated in both:
• Manual Testing
• Automation Testing with the Robot Framework or Selenium Web Driver.
• Strong Database knowledge and able to query advanced statements in Postgres, Oracle and/or MariaDB
• Effective and confident communication skills in written and spoken English

DESIRABLE
• Have awareness about Security & Performance concepts and methods to validate these
• Experience working Application Performance Monitoring tools
• Thorough understanding of automation concepts and tool such as: Docker, CI/CD & Jenkins
• Worked successful in an Agile Team before, either Scrum, XP, Lean or Kanban

Competencies
• Analysis & Problem Solving: Uses critical thinking to address problems. Able to perform root cause analysis on complex problems to identify underlying trends and put forward well-thought out solutions to address the causes.
• Listening & Communication: Focuses on the individual they are communicating with. Writes and expresses thoughts clearly adjusting as necessary to the audience. Asks questions to clarify.
• Collaboration, Inclusion & Teamwork: A good team player that is personable, friendly, polite and takes the time to know people. Collaborates with onshore and offshore colleagues well.
• Customer Focus: Understands the needs of the customer clarifying requirements and expectations. Adapts as necessary to changing requirements and is responsive, helpful with all requests. Sets high quality for service delivery.
• Planning & Organizing: Uses the supplied tools for structured project planning for optimal time use. Balances competing priorities. Promptly Updates people when plans change and keeps them apprised of progress. Adjusts own plans based on FML strategies and plans.
• Initiative: Challenges existing ways of doing things. Looking for continuous improvement without being asked. Identifies ways to improve efficiency and effectiveness in own work and others in the team
• Accountability: Responsible for delivery own work without unnecessary supervision. Always demonstrates integrity and ethical behavior being a role model for others. Invites constructive feedback adjusting actions accordingly. Thinks through mistakes made and finds ways to prevent reoccurrence.

Fleet Management Limited is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by local laws.