SUMMARY:
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POSITION INFO:
Job title: Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Senior Quality Engineer will undertake the responsibility for analyzing, planning, setting up,
monitoring, maintaining, troubleshooting, and reporting on advanced automated testing
processes across diverse platforms. This individual should possess advanced test automation
skills and work closely and proactively with the Development and DevOps Teams to deliver
superior quality software while continuously enhancing test effectiveness and efficiency.
• Involvement in user story definition and test scenarios: Lead test scenario definition,
integrating ATDD/BDD principles and ensuring comprehensive test coverage.
• Support with issue reproduction and resolution: Troubleshoot complex issues across
environments and coordinate with developers and DevOps to address root causes
effectively.
• Collaboration with developers and DevOps: Build strong collaboration with DevOps and
developers, ensuring smooth integration and troubleshooting across environments.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Lead quality discussions with cross-functional teams, ensuring
alignment on quality objectives and timelines.
• Agile/Scrum practices: Drive QA contributions to Agile ceremonies, embedding quality into
every sprint milestone.
• Continuous Improvement Initiatives: Lead retrospectives, driving meaningful changes to
QA and development workflows.
• Risk Management and Impact Assessment: Proactively mitigate risks through root cause
analysis and recommend preventive measures.
• Quality standards and defect prevention: Own quality metrics and proactively implement
measures to enhance system reliability and user experience.
• Customer Advocacy: Advocate for customer-focused quality improvements and ensure
testing aligns with user needs.
• Automation creation and maintenance: Define and refine automation approaches, owning
the setup and maintenance of robust, scalable automation suites.
• Automation strategies and tools: Lead strategy definition and introduce innovative
solutions to improve testing efficiency and coverage.
• Tool and Framework Development: Identify gaps in tools and recommend or develop
custom solutions to enhance efficiency.
• Metrics and performance reporting: Own and report on quality and automation metrics,
offering actionable recommendations to improve efficiency.
• Governance and QA principles: Define and enforce governance standards, ensuring QA
principles are consistently applied across teams.
Technical leadership and mentoring: Mentor Intermediate and Junior QA Engineers while
actively participating in hiring and skills assessments.
This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of responsibilities. You may be required
to complete other reasonable duties to achieve business objectives.
Essential skills you’ll bring to the table
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A minimum of 5 years hands-on automation testing experience.
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Computer Science related degree, diploma, or similar qualification.
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ISTQB Foundation Level
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Experience in working with agile teams and successfully delivering agile based software
projects.
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Utilizing dev tools like Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code.
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Comfortable with source control tools, like GitLab.
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Ability to write integration and UI tests.
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Experience using automation frameworks and tools like Playwright, Selenium (NOT IDE),
Nunit.
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Experience in using Typescript/JavaScript, C#, JSON.
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API Testing using Postman or in code.
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Experience with designing, creating, and maintaining automation frameworks.
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Communication skills - ability to communicate with clients, peers and line management
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Experience of agile and the Scrum or Kanban methodology
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Advanced Experience with test automation tools and strategies
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Advanced Experience of using BDD effectively
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Advanced proven experience with C#/Java and JavaScript
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Experience with any of the following Frameworks: WebDriver (not IDE) / WebDriver.IO /
Cypress / TestCafe / RestShap / Rest Assured
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Experience with CI/CD pipelines for continuous testing.
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Dedicated to staying updated on the latest testing tools and technologies, with the ability
to adapt to new frameworks as needed.
Desirable skills you’ve got up your sleeve
It would be great if you also have some of the following skills:
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ISTQB Advanced Level Certifications
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Previous exposure to Microsoft Azure DevOps & VSTS
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Experience with actively developing & managing Docker infrastructure.
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YAML / Kubernetes
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Cloud (Azure), Azure DevOps.
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Knowledge of Message Broker Systems
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Comfortable with using Kibana, Grafana
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Capable of reading and writing Mongo collections.
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Exposure to Saucelabs/BrowserStack or similar tools for mobile testing
