Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer (Python)

We seek an Expert Quality Assurance Engineer to join our shopping within the Engineering and operation function, bring new features to life, and support our products’ move to modern agile and technical practices and architectures.

Project Overview:

As a seasoned Quality Assurance Engineer specialising in automation and cutting-edge software testing methodologies, you play a pivotal role in upholding the highest quality standards within your team. Reporting directly to the Engineering Manager, you spearhead the quality assurance efforts, ensuring seamless collaboration across various functional teams.

The profile demands knowledge in test automation for both front-end and back-end skills, where one will be acting upon defining most suitable test strategy across both categories of applications.

A much stronger understanding of back-end architectures (rest API validations, mocking mechanisms, event-driven architectures in a micro-service ecosystem, and asynchronous processing) is generally desired.

Daily activities consists of: assuring deliveries (in a manual and automated manner) from Java back-end developers and Typescript front-end developers.

Requirements:

• As a Senior/Expert Quality Assurance Engineer, you must be able to provide among these:
• Able to effectively communicate in English.
• Ability to work in an autonomous, self-responsible and self-organised way.
• 6+ years of experience in software testing, manual and automated
• Knowledge of software testing theory.
• Comfortable in developing test automation frameworks from scratch and maintaining existing frameworks.
• Strong Experience working with modern test automation frameworks and tools (such as Cypress, Playwright, JUnit, TestNG, Cucumber, Allure).
• Strong experience in different testing practices (from unit to E2E, functional and non-functional) specifically integrated within CI/CD.
• Strong knowledge of Python development for tests.
• Understanding of OOP concepts.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and monitoring tools (e.g. Jenkins, TeamCity, Kibana, Grafana, etc.).
• Knowledge of API testing and REST APIs.
• Familiar with cloud-native solutions (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Knowledge in multiple platform concepts (Micro-services, Event-driven Architecture).
• Knowledge with Bitbucket, K8s, Docker
• Ability to work in an agile environment, engaged in Scrum

Nice to have:

• Good experience in SQL and relational database concepts.
• Experience writing clean code in different programming languages (Java, Python, Kotlin, JavaScript TypeScript).
• Experience with Behavior-driven Development
• Experience with APP test automation tools.

Responsibilities:

• As our Expert Quality Assurance Engineer, you embrace the following responsibilities:
• Take ownership and responsibility for the design and development of all aspects of testing.
• Work on acceptance criteria and test scenarios with the Product Owner and development team.
• Design, execute, and maintain test scenarios and automation capabilities for all test levels and types (e.g., automated, regression, exploratory, etc.).
• Create and optimise test frameworks and integrate them into deployment pipelines.
• Participate in the code review process for both production and test code to ensure all critical cases are covered.
• Monitoring test runs, application errors and performance.
• Making information flow, keeping the team informed and being a stakeholder in releases and defect tracking.
• Share the best testing and quality practices and processes.
• Promote and coach the team towards a quality-focused mindset.
• Influence and lead the team towards continuous improvement and best testing practices.
• Be the reference of the QA Center of Practice, promoting their practices and influencing their strategy, bringing your team experience into their plan.

Why this position:

You serve as the beacon of excellence in product delivery and deployment, setting the benchmark for quality standards. Your expertise serves as a bridge to the QA Center of Practice, facilitating the exchange of best practices within and beyond your team. Your primary objective is cultivating a culture of excellence and efficiency in quality assurance, freeing up valuable time for your team to focus on innovative solutions rather than redundant testing procedures. By leveraging advanced tooling and coding techniques, you seamlessly integrate automation testing into every team member's daily workflow. Through close collaboration with cross-functional teams, you drive the implementation of new features and enhancements, ultimately enhancing the experience for over 9 million customers.