QA Specialist with Front-End Development Growth Path

🌱 At HEMAV we are an AgriTech StartUp founded in 2012 working passionately on Data Science in the agrifood industry with the mission of reducing uncertainty in crop yield data, empowering agriculturalists to confidently and efficiently overcome the challenges of the agrifood value chain.

🌾🛰️ We use a unique approach, based on Artificial Intelligence using satellite technology and other data sources (drone, meteo, soil, etc.). Users of our technology leverage their decision-making systems on information and knowledge generated on a field-by-field basis, with customized per-user models. Our vision is to deliver yield forecasting for 100 million hectares worldwide by 2030, empowering data-driven decision-making.

💚 The HEMAV family is currently composed by a team of around 50 persons with offices in Spain, Brazil, Peru and the USA. We have around 50 regional partners distributed between more than 17 countries in Europe, America and Africa. More than 5.000 users have access to the platform with service in more than 7 million Hectares.

❤️ HEMAV values are:

• Positive Energy: We want to IMPROVE the world constructing a BETTER PLACE TO BE 💚🌍💧
• Teamwork: To be successful, we need to WORK together, we must PREDICT TOGETHER 🫂
• Accuracy: To achieve incredible results, we need BEST VERSION of EVERYONE
• Simplicity: We build useful things. Less is more. We simplify life, not complicate it
• Reliability: We ensure dependable performance and trustworthy solutions

📊 LAYERS, our software, generates key yield forecasting data. In addition, it offers analytics to the agricultural sector with a large direct impact. For example, clients can improve the efficiency in treatments (sowing, fertilization, irrigation, etc.) and generate
estimations in yield (tonnes per hectare), as well as quality estimates (e.g. soybeans protein quantity) for different crops. We know that producers, the agroindustry itself, or even insurance companies and traders in the agronomical sector are facing three main challenges, with a large impact in their gross margin:

· Crop Management

· Production yield and logistics

· Economical yield

. Climate change risk assessment

💧 💚 LAYERS helps minimize these risks through a high-quality continuous monitoring and predictions. We want to make LAYERS the core of all the yield-related
decisions in the agribusiness value-chain using data and statistics. Our slogan is

“Reshaping the future increasing land efficiency”

👾 The LAYERS Product Team is the main area of the company, where 13 persons are distributed in four squads: DevOps, BackEnd, UX/UI and Data Intelligence. Three-four weeks sprints are combined with sprint demos where all the company is updated with the news in the product by all the members of the product team.

Some of the things you should consider when joining our team are:

· Young and friendly environment

· Flexible work-hours

· 100% remote work

· Flexible remuneration system that adapts the salary to your needs

· Extra holidays

🌎🌏🌍LAYERS, is composed of a web-app mobile-app and API. Our software
constitutes the heart of the customer ecosystem where data analysis and prognosis is presented in an analytical and insightful web dashboard formats. Thanks to this, our customers can monitor their crops and perform better business decisions in their agro-industrial companies.

🖥️ Position

🎯 What is your mission in HEMAV?

Lead quality assurance initiatives for LAYERS front-end platform while developing front-end development skills to eventually contribute to both QA strategy and front-end implementation.

This is a growth-oriented position where you'll start as our QA specialist and progressively take on front-end development responsibilities as you build React/Next.js expertise. Specifically in LAYERS web (Next.js) and LAYERS App (React Native with Expo). Exchanging information and knowledge with data scientists, agronomists, analysts and other experts in and outside the company to identify, design and implement the features and designs that will make the change in present and future LAYERS users.

This mission is deeply linked with the design, technology and thus, the team involved in the application of software development, spatio-temporal statistics, agronomical knowledge and AI in Layers' solution. Statistics, maths, geographical information, software development, computer vision and other disciplines converge in the work of the whole team.

Global improvements in the robustness, performance and scalability of LAYERS will as well be part of the tasks this person will face.

✍🏽 Tasks

Quality Assurance Focus:

• Design and implement comprehensive test strategies for LAYERS web (Next.js) and mobile (React Native/Expo) applications
• Develop automated test suites using Cypress, Playwright, and Maestro
• Establish testing standards and QA processes in FrontEnd team influencing the rest of the teams
• Reduce Defect Escape Rate from current 37% to target <30%
• Be part of development team to implement testable code practices

Learning & Development:

• Participate in Front-End codebase familiarization sessions
• Complete React/Next.js learning curriculum (company-provided)
• Shadow front-end developers during feature implementation
• Contribute to simple UI fixes and improvements

⚙️ Responsibilities and functions:

· Work on tasks related to LAYERS UI QA and FE development together with other experts on different fields and technologies, to develop and deploy tools and techniques that allow HEMAV to extract the maximum value for the users. In addition, this team member will lead the User Experience and front-end design with high collaboration with internal and eventually external stakeholders.
· Join agile liturgies such as user stories refinement, sprint planning, daily meetings, product reviews and retrospectives. Contact point with internal stakeholders in punctual cases related to developments carried out.

🏅 How will this role be evaluated?

· Personal goals established with the manager
· Team goals established with the Product Owner
· Company goals

📍 Location: +- 3h from BCN (Spain) time

We are very happy with asynchronous work, however we belief in teamwork and peer programming.

Anyway, if you are in the BCN area you will always be welcomed at the office :-).

🏅 Technical Skills

MUST HAVE:

Testing & QA:

• 2+ years experience in software testing (manual and automated)
• Experience with test automation frameworks (Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, or similar)
• Understanding of testing methodologies (unit, integration, end-to-end, performance)
• Bug tracking and test case management tools (e.g. Sentry)
• API testing experience (Postman, REST clients)

Technical Foundation:

• Strong understanding of web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
• Basic React.JS knowledge
• Git version control
• Basic understanding of CI/CD pipelines
• SQL / GraphQL knowledge for data validation

NICE TO HAVE:

Agricultural/GIS Context:

• Experience testing mapping applications or GIS systems
• Understanding of geospatial data workflows
• Familiarity with agricultural or scientific software testing

Front-End Development:

• Experience with Next.js or React Native
• Understanding of state management (Redux/similar)
• Familiarity with mapping libraries (OpenLayers, Mapbox, Leaflet)

Advanced Testing:

• Performance testing tools (K6, JMeter)
• Visual regression testing
• Mobile app testing frameworks
• Test data management

Tools & Processes:

• Docker containerization
• GitLab CI/CD
• Figma for design collaboration
• Agile/Scrum methodologies

💚 Personal Qualities

Essential:

• Quality-focused mindset with attention to detail
• Growth mindset
  • eager to learn front-end development
• Systematic approach to problem-solving
• Collaborative
  • works well with diverse technical teams
• Communication skills
  • can explain technical issues clearly
• Adaptability
  • comfortable with evolving role responsibilities

Preferred:

• Interest in agricultural technology and sustainability
• Experience in startup or fast-paced environments
• Fluent English
• Self-motivated and autonomous

Some of the things you should consider when joining our team are:

• Competitive base salary with performance-based bonus structure
• Equity participation in a high-growth AgTech company
• Flexible work hours and hybrid work model
• Comprehensive health and benefits package
• Professional development opportunities
• Impact-driven work environment

Our hiring process has been refined along the time and includes the following steps:

1. Initial conversation with CPO or TeamLead to present the company and position
2. Technical conversation with your team-mates
3. Brief technical test
4. Technical test discussion
5. Offer and onboarding

Join HEMAV Technology as Front-End SW developer and join our mission to reshape the future of agriculture through AI-powered solutions. Your work will be crucial in scaling our impact across global markets while maintaining our commitment to sustainability and excellence. Apply now!