[Hiring] Senior QA Automation Engineer @Valtech

Role Description

As a QA Automation Engineer, you are passionate about experience innovation and eager to build fully automated test suites for applications and services, to optimize regression checks as well as reduce manual effort in repetitive tasks for quality assurance. You will be responsible for triaging and communicating status of issues that clients report while identifying and triaging issues yourself. You bring at least 5 years of experience in a QA role for web projects and a growth mindset to make a lasting impact.

You will thrive in this role if you are:

• A curious problem solver who challenges the status quo
• A collaborator who values teamwork and knowledge-sharing
• Excited by the intersection of technology, creativity and data
• Experienced in Agile methodologies and consulting (a plus)

Role responsibilities:

• To learn and apply QA principles to build UI, API and performance test cases, overseeing their execution and results.
• To automate checks for different platforms, operating systems and browsers in order to identify regressions.
• To report incidents derived from automation test execution and follow up on updates.
• To implement and integrate reporting tools to be able to gather meaningful metrics about projects health.
• To work closely with Manual QA teams to identify automation needs and smoke plans.
• To support development and Manual QA team in troubleshooting and root cause analysis, by analyzing logs, performing queries and debugging.
• To participate in agile ceremonies (Daily meetings, Planning, Retrospective).
• To participate in user stories estimation.
• To participate in the code review process.

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience working as a QA automation engineer.
• Experience or knowledge working with Selenium framework and Javascript.
• Experience working with Content Management Systems (Optimizely or AEM preferred).
• HTML structure, CSS and XPATH selectors knowledge.
• Experience and knowledge testing REST APIs (HTTP status codes and verbs, authentication methods, JSON format).
• Web Services testing tools (Postman).
• Experience or knowledge working with agile methodologies.
• Source code versioning using Git.
• Experience using project management tools (JIRA / Confluence preferred).
• Fluent level of English.

Requirements

• Experience working or coordinating with USA teams (nice to have).
• Experience writing API and integration tests with the use of mocking frameworks (nice to have).
• Some experience performing Mobile applications testing by using emulators, Cloud testing tools (Browserstack, Crossbrowsertesting, etc) (nice to have).
• Experience using these cloud-based testing tools for automation (nice to have).
• Experience with Test Management Software (Testiny) (nice to have).
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field (or equivalent experience) (nice to have).

Benefits

• This is a full time position, 100% remote.
• Career advancement, with international mobility and professional development programs.
• Learning and development, with access to cutting-edge tools, training and industry experts.
• Our benefits are tailored to each location. Your Talent Partner will provide full details during the hiring process.