QA automation engineer (full-remote)

Project description

We are looking for an experienced developer who will be a member of the team focused on a large distributed application that gathers project-related data at one place and allows internal teams to efficiently collaborate on complex projects.

The application is very high-profile, uses microservice architecture and is built with focus on the highest possible technical quality using the most modern technology stack.

High-level overview of the candidate

We are looking for somebody who:

• Is great automation tester (SW developer in test)
• Is able to produce high quality code at a high velocity
• Is able to define and evaluate test automation best practices
• Is willing to do some occasional manual testing.
• Knows design patterns and is able to introduce them when needed together with explanation of why they should be used and what is the added value they bring
• Is able to efficiently communicate, explain defect description, consistently “fight” for product quality (be it defect resolution, new tools, new test automation approaches, new techniques...)
• Is able to help people around to get things done
• Is able to define manual test cases.
• Has a strong sense of responsibility and commitment
• Strong ability to verify assignments and proactively propose improvements
• Ability to self sufficiently and proactively look for solutions

Detailed Position Description

• Checking if newly developed products are ready for production.
• Design,development and maintenance of independent automated test cases for each newly developed feature.
• Providing feedback about test results, bugs, high-level testing strategies, and reports about implementation and efficiency.
• Working with other QAs to document the quality processes for replication in other projects.
• Managing testing projects during each phase, according to the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Making improvements to functionality, design, and usability of new products.
• Collaboration with Product Owners, Analysts, Developers and Testers

Requirements / Must Haves

• Test Script Creation experience beyond Record/Playback
  1. Must: At least 2-4 years of hands on experience
• Test Scripts programming (full cycle)
  1. Nice to have: Handson experience in the end to end automation lifecycle
• Senior QA/Testing 
  1. 4-5 years of experience on 3 (or more) different projects
  2. - Should be well knowledgeable of testing process - different kinds of testing and its placement and test artifacts
• Both technical and non-technical problem solving: Must
• Must
  1. Self-starter / Quality-driven
  2. Good Communication and collaboration skills
  3. Quick Learner
  4. Analytical Approach
• Mindset of consultant - propose innovations, explain reasons for change, guide non-technical people
• Ability to work with team from US time-zone (standard work-hours by 6pm CET, but longer overlap with US time helps, there is ~7 hours offset to GMT+1, so the position is more suitable who likes to wake up later/not an early bird)
• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, debugging, and problem solving skills.
• Vast experience with test automation.
• Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle on an Agile (Scrum) team.
• Experience in implementing & maintenance BDD test cases.
• Experience in implementing & maintenance e2e scenarios.
• Experience in cross-platform client testing (mobile, web, diff browsers).
• Experience in Azure DevOps or similar project management software solution.
• Prior QA automation testing, quality assurance methodologies and processes experience
• Knowledge of various software testing methods. (Smoke & Sanity, Regression, Integration, Mobile, Cross-platform, Component, Performance, UI / UX, Acceptance).
• Excellent verbal and written communication in English.
• Ability to code-review.

Technologies

• Intermediate/SeniorProgramming/Scripting: 
  1. Must: One of Java/C#/Python. Hands on experience with programming
  2. Nice to have : JavaScript,Ruby or any other scripting languages
• Framework experience
  1. Hands on experience with at least one of ( modular, data driven,keyword driven, hybrid) automation frameworks. Preferably Selenium, Robot, Jmeter, SOAP UI
• Cross-platform Technologies
  1. Mandatory: XML/Xpath, SQL; Optional: HTML/XSL
• Test Tool Stack (Candidates who have hands-on experience with following tool stack would have preference)
  1. Robot Framework (UI Automation)
  2. Jmeter (API Automation)
  3. JIRA/ Azure DevOps ( Issue tracking agile tools)
  4. Jenkins/ Azure Devops (CICD/build )
  5. Github
• Other: 
  1. RestSharp, Rest api, Swagger, Postman
  2. xUnit, MS Test - unit testing, integration testing.
  3. Knowledge of incident tracking and test management tools (e.g. JIRA, TestRail, HP ALM) 

Other Skills/ Abilities / Would Be Nice

• Experience in Cypress framework.
• Experience in Azure DevOps Pipelines or similar solutions.
• Experience with Jenkins and Gitlab
• Docker, Kubernetes