Senior Automation Engineer

 

Recruiter:

Progressive Edge

Job Ref:

AE001

Date posted:

Wednesday, June 22, 2022

Location:

CapeTown, South Africa

Salary:

Market related


JOB SUMMARY:
Senior Automation Engineer | Remote / Cape Town

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Senior Automation Engineer

Permanent

Remote / Cape Town

Working arrangement: Offices based in Cape Town but Engineering team works remotely. You may apply from anywhere in South Africa and you will not need to relocate

The Organisation

An established software company with clients all over the world seeks an enthusiastic, skilled, experienced automation engineer to join the R&D team in Cape Town.

The team focuses on the product engineering and quality assurance of the companies product, an enterprise suite of software, used by major natural resource companies and government agencies around the world.

We are looking for smart, curious people who can get things done. You would join an established and welcoming team that is expanding its product suite (using RESTful web APIs and Angular SPAs) which requires a commensurate increase in automated testing capability.

We offer a challenging, engaging and edifying environment, applying both new and proven technologies to solve practical problems that make a difference in the world.

The Position

This role will have you join the organisation as a Senior Automation specialist. Together with another Senior Automator, you would guide the organisation on the journey from Manual to automation testing. This journey has already started. Previous experience in the planning and execution of the migration from manual to automated regression testing will help your application. Exceptional communication skills needed to ensure communication between teams, and business essential.

This is a challenging environment as the products or complex. You will work with incredibly smart individuals in created highly complex and impactful software.

The ideal person for this role will be a software engineer turned automation tester, or dev in test. You will need strong automation scripting and testing skills. This role will not suit and individual who needs a lot of guidance in this area.

Experience Required:

  • 4 to 7 years of combined experience working on large scale Enterprise IT projects as a Test Automation Engineer, Software Engineer or equivalent role
  • Proven understanding of testing concepts through the software development lifecycle (unit, performance, regression) and capability to write effective test cases and test plans
  • Proven ability to implement automated functional testing, integration testing and load / performance testing
  • Exposure to case management and version control systems
  • Working knowledge of test automation frameworks (Eg. Cypress/Jasmine/Mocha for JavaScript-based testing)
  • Understanding of RESTful web APIs and web application architecture
  • Structured Query Language (SQL)
  • Working knowledge of HTML & CSS
  • Working knowledge of JavaScript – ESSENTIAL (will be tested at interview stage)
  • Automated test development within the web environment

ADVANTAGEOUS

Atata with Selenium web drivers for C# based testing as well as C# for an equivalent scripting environment

 

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