QA Engineer
Summary
QA Engineer at staffing firm Global {M}, working with client Lifebit on its federated genomics platform in London. Day to day: build manual and automated test cases, test REST APIs and frontend UIs, write end-to-end web-driver tests, and diagnose and document defects alongside Lifebit engineers.
Description
Our client Partner Lifebit is an open-source pioneer and their driving mission is to revolutionise bioinformatics and biomedical data analysis forever.
Their product is the world’s first federated genomics platform for unified, secure research over distributed big data. No one has anything close. Think best-in-class UI/UX, seamless integration with open-source tools, powerful cohort browser, advanced AI. Lifebit Cloud OS is leading the industry and leaving competitors in the dust. Lifebit intends to keep it that way!
While they know their technology is unmatched, Lifebit also know they can keep making it greater without an exceptionally strong team to help take it to incredible new heights.
Their engineering and research team is composed of a mix of software, and bioinformatics, currently their engineers are split between Lisbon and London. Software engineers don’t need any prior knowledge or experience in bioinformatics, we solve problems differently to the industry’s standards and favour creative problem solving.
The Lifebit stack includes:
- Backend: NodeJS, TypeScript, MongoDB
- Infrastructure: Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS
- Frontend: React-Redux
- Machine Learning: Python, Pandas, Sklearn, Tensorflow
- Bioinformatics: Nextflow, Conda, Python, R, Bash, Docker