Working student (f/m/x) – QA Automation Engineer

  • 15-20 hours/week
  • Tettnang
  • Without Professional Experience
  • Working Student

We’re an international software company at the forefront of imagining the future of digital security. Avira’s award-winning products and technology protect over 500 million users in the connected world.

What makes us special? First and foremost – it’s the authentic people at Avira. We have a great community feeling that fosters your uniqueness and offers the space to reflect, the feedback to grow, and the freedom to innovate.

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The challenge

The Password Manager (PWM) team at Avira is part of the Browser-Based-Apps unit. We are responsible for the development, marketing, and scaling of Avira Password Manager. We want to help our users securely manage their credentials, credit cards, private notes, as well as documents and other confidential information and make them accessible at any time on all devices. Avira Password Manager helps users navigate securely in a digital and connected world by fostering secure password practices and generating secure, unique, and easy-to-use passwords.

The team

As a QA intern, you will be a part of the Engineering subteam (4 mobile developers, 5 frontend/browser extension developers, and 1 backend developer/DevOps) and work directly with your colleagues on QA topics. In particular, you will support the developers in QA to further improve the overall product quality of Avira Password Manager. We are a diverse and interdisciplinary team from 8 different countries and diverse backgrounds, always striving to support each other and develop new, innovative ideas.

What you will do

  • Porting existing UI end-to-end acceptance tests for web and extension apps to a new testing platform — using SpecFlow and Selenium for UI automation
  • Implementing new automation tests based on feature definitions written in Gherkin, a domain-specific language
  • Supporting UI automation testing for new mobile flutter app and desktop application based on .NET WPF
  • Assisting in maintenance of test executions on continuous integration (CI) server using Bamboo

 

Your profile

  • Currently enrolled for a university degree (e.g. informatics, computer science, business administration, economics, or a similar field)
  • An open-minded attitude and interest in learning new, complex tools and frameworks for automated testing
  • Practical experience with one of the following programming languages:
    • C#, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, etc.
  • Basic understanding of automation testing concepts for web, Windows desktop, or mobile applications
  • The following experiences would be a plus:
    • Writing automated tests using different frameworks such as NUnit, xUnit, JUnit, and MSTest
    • Writing scripts for automating different processes (Batch, PowerShell, Bash, VB, Python, etc.)
  • Awareness of CI and continuous delivery concepts and interest in learning how to apply this in practice
  • Good communication skills and a hands-on mentality to drive projects forward on your own
  • Fluency in English

If you are looking for a culture that also encourages aspiration and professional excellence, get in touch with us and discover the Avira experience firsthand.

How we hire

Codility Test

1st Video interview

2nd Video interview

On-Site

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Do you have any questions? We are happy to answer them!

Lena Komarek

+49 (0) 7542 - 500 - 2207
lena.komarek@avira.com

Benefits

  • Modern devices,
    infrastructure,
    and office concept
  • Gym Card and fitness courses
  • Private medical care
  • Learning and Developement offers
  • Flexible working hours
  • Relocation package

Update
Although there’s a lot of disruption nowadays due to Covid-19, we at Avira are continuing to run our daily business activities so that we stay true to the promise to our customers - now even more than ever: Protecting people in the connected world.

And we are doing this from the safeness of our own homes. Among other things, this means we are still hiring, but we have moved all our interviews online and all our colleagues are being onboarded remotely

So join us and you will be able to work from home until the danger is over.