Automation Engineer

• Work as part of cross functional, passionate agile project teams to ensure quality is driven into the heart of the development process from requirements definition through to delivery
• Designing, developing and supporting frameworks for our test infrastructure and providing automation expertise to our development teams
• Building test infrastructures using containerization technologies such as Docker and working within continuous delivery / continuous release pipeline processes
• Contributing toward predictable delivery of quality releases
• Research, recommend and implement tools as needed with the goal of increasing automation
• Mentor team members on automation
• Proactively bringing issues and problems to the attention of the team; generating, proposing and implementing innovative solutions to solve them
• Be meticulous about documentation and maintaining a robust log of all test cases and test results
• Ensure that all tests are executed and give regular feedback to the team lead on the status of quality
• Use appropriate measures and KPIs to validate and report on software quality
• Work closely with the software engineering team, Product Management and Technical Operations as well as business users and Senior Management, as required
• Be a creative thinker who can quickly identify and test for functional ‘edge cases’ outside of expected functionality workflow
  o Have the drive to become a expert in:
  o Unit testing
  o UX Testing
  o UI Testing
  o Integration testing of APIs
  o Performance and scalability testing
  o Security Penetration Testing

• Strong background in, and at least 3+ years of working in tooling or QA automation
• Experience in writing, executing and monitoring automated test suites using a variety of technologies including, but not limited to, Cucumber, Concordion, Selenium, Fit/FitNesse, SoapUI
• SaaS experience
• Experience in mobile, email and telephony services

Required:

• University degree in n Computer Science, Computer Engineering (or appropriate computer science related certificate)
• Professional Qualifications: Industry certifications in software testing or an interest in achieving these

Desired:

• Exposure to an Agile Development Methodology
• Understanding of NoSQL database technologies such as MongoDB or DynamoDB CTFL, ISTQB, CSQA or CSTE certified
• Proactive ‘self-starter’ attitude
• Experience mentoring QA staff and end users on quality objectives and testing processes Understanding of coding enterprise applications within Java, PHP, Python and other languages
• Lifelong learner – thrives from developing and sharing knowledge
• Atlassian Suite knowledge
• Be comfortable working with a multicultural team
• Proactive approach and organisational skills
• Willingness to be flexible with time zones
• Minimum of two languages (English is mandatory)