Ciklum · 4 months ago
Senior Automation QA Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior LevelCiklum is a custom product engineering company that supports multinational organizations and startups. They are seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer to join a cross-functional development team, focusing on delivering high-quality software solutions and ensuring effective testing strategies across various domains.
Enterprise SoftwareOutsourcingSoftwareTraining
Responsibilities
As an Automated Quality Engineer, you will be part of a cross-functional team. Being an enthusiast in creating flawlessly working software solutions for our customers, with a strong DevSecOps mindset, and thanks to your excellent collaboration skills you will work with your team in delivering the best answers to our customers’ needs and in taking over full responsibility for its applications, from design to operation. You care diligently about the quality of your work, including proper documentation and security aspects. With your advanced skillset for understanding and solving problems you are able to take full ownership of complex topics or multi-faceted initiatives and outcomes panning across your domain
You use your deep technical skills to work with your team on defining, executing and maintaining efficient, highly automated test setups over the whole testing pyramid, from functional testing, integration and contract testing to performance and load testing. You are responsible for defining and executing an appropriate testing strategy that is aligned on domain level as well as ensuring the availability of suitable test data. You also help to realise efficient solution for assuring quality where automation comes up against its limitations. You coach and support your colleagues with deep knowledge to improve expertise in ensuring the quality of software products over the whole cycle of designing, building, testing and deploying applications. You coach and guide more junior Quality Engineers and help them to grow and develop their expertise. You help to continuously advance tooling, processes, and ways of working, always having our customers in mind, and thus embed all-team quality ownership. You also work with Product Owners to ensure testable feature specifications and champion approaches like test-driven development or behaviour-driven development. You tackle the whole cycle of designing, building, testing and deploying software and contribute to increasing automation
You are able to verbalise your thoughts and ideas and take the initiative to translate ideas into outcomes. Together with the domain’s Practice teams as well as the Group Enabler teams you also will research, evaluate and test new approaches, processes and tools and help teams to use them effectively. You demonstrate active contribution to Communities of Practice, including collaboration in shared initiatives. For this you are well-connected across the domain and within the broader community
You love to work in an international, multi-cultural team. You challenge constructively and have high expectations of yourself and others. You always drive for technical excellence, ownership and self-organisation at team and personal level. You regularly coach, guide and develop more junior colleagues. You love to learn and acquire new skills and keep up to date with latest developments in your focus areas
Qualification
Required
Deep and proven practical knowledge of and expertise in quality assurance practices, tools and methods in an agile context and at scale
Practical experience with a range of cloud technologies and services (preferably AWS)
Experience working with Atlassian tool set (JIRA, Confluence and integrations)
Experience in end-to-end application testing (restful services, front applications, automation)
Strong understanding of Automation test strategy, Automation test limitations
Should have progressing skills in Testing Lifecycle, Testing Expertise, Testing Techniques, Test and Quality Management
A good team player with a great attitude and a passion for technology
Programming Language: TypeScript (and JavaScript)
Test Automation Framework: Playwright
Assertion Libraries: Built-in Playwright assertions
Package Manager: npm
Version Control: Git
Linting: ESLint
Test Runner: Playwright Test Runner
Framework Design: PageObject pattern
API Testing Framework: Playwright API testing
Mocking & Stubbing: Playwright request interception
Code Security: SonarQube
Experience with Performance Testing in Gatling Cloud
Strong technical prowess in all quality assurance areas including automation, functional, contract, integration, performance and load testing
Deep practical knowledge of software engineering practices like BDD and TDD
Proven ability to define and execute quality strategies at scale
Good experience with CI/CD, preferably Gitlab CI
Customer centric, passionate about delivering great digital products and services
Demonstrating true engineering craftsmanship mindset
Passionate about continuous improvement, collaboration and great teams
Compelling coaching and training skills for imparting professional software engineering skills
Strong problem-solving skills coupled with good communication skills
Understanding of social and ethical implications of software engineering (e.g. like described in the ACM Code of Ethics)
Open minded, inquisitive, life-long learner, transparent
Comfortable with ambiguity, highly autonomous
Benefits
Medical subscription to Regina Maria
Meal tickets of 16 ron net/day worked
Company
Ciklum
Ciklum is an software development outsourcing company specializing in Client owned software development centers in Eastern Europe.
Founded in 2002
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
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2020-12-29Series Unknown
2019-02-05Series Unknown
2015-11-18Series Unknown
Leadership Team
Michael Boustridge
Chief Executive Officer and President
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