Sr QA Engineer - Automation
Zipdev, Peru

We’re looking for a Quality Automation Engineer to continue building our team working across our growing product suite, building delightful software in a high functioning team environment. At a minimum you’ll have experience in automated testing tools Selenium, Appium and Postman. You’ll enjoy working with a highly engaged cross-skilled team, directly interfacing with developers, designers and product owners.

Our client builds mobile and cloud solutions to enable real-time operations for the property management industry, for a user base primarily in the US.

Week by Week

During your first 1-2 weeks you will:

• Get to know our leadership, culture, and values
• Complete our orientation and onboarding program
• Onboard with the QA/Test and Automation Team and greater Engineering Team
• Familiarize yourself with our systems and tools focusing on Mobile and Web Automation
• Read our favorite industry primers
• Attend your first Company Wide Meeting (occurring fortnightly)

During your first 6-8 weeks you will:

• Get acquainted with the different departments
• Enhance automation frameworks and develop automation to deliver higher quality software focused on reliable, stable and faster deployments
• Provide quality control expertise for software engineering process to enable faster development of automation
• Be involved in the continuous improvement QA strategy rollouts to enhance the engineering culture and product engineering process

During your first 6-12 months you will:

• Demonstrate automation test coverage enhancements in automated regression test coverage across products, features and environments for each platform (Web, Mobile, API)
• Demonstrate automation enablement in all environments that are more stable and reliable
• Demonstrate process improvement outcomes for faster deployment times due to better ways of working focused on streamlining manual agile test case development to automation efficiencies

What you could expect day-to-day

• Design and create test cases using Jira and Agile / BDD based methodologies
• Implement operational quality process improvements designed to streamline and speed up automation delivery
• Articulate and present gap analysis automated test cases to enable prioritization of automation based on business needs
• Employ quality strategic goals within squads to enable faster deployment and automation enablement
• Enhance existing automation frameworks to enable high frequency, faster feedback and highly repeatable test automation execution across all products, features and environments
• Expand automated regression across Web, Mobile, API platforms and other test suites
• Enable near real time automation and testing results to increase visibility for decisions on release readiness
• Test smarter by guiding the squad on ways of working and new quality initiatives
• Enable and partake in agile processes and ceremonies focusing on the squads success
• Investigate, report and manage defects/issues to enable measurable quality outcomes
• Focus on automation, but assist in manual testing as required
• Support deployments and release of business features and fixes through to production
• Update documentation to support future QA growth
• Upskill and train QA Engineers to become more automation enabled

• Candidate should be Flexible on meetings between Americas and AU (Australia)
• Occasional catchups with AU hiring manager and AU QA team timezone
• 1:1 Meetings Weekly alternating early/later times to allow for AU overlaps
• Maybe a few out of hours meetings with QA Team but rare 1/Month max
• requiring overlap with AU on occasions

Requirements

• Total quality and customer focus
• 5-7 years experience in QA testing/ automation roles with a sound understanding of software testing, and the role it plays in a scrum/ agile development environment
• 3 years of mobile manual testing experience
• 1-2 years of mobile automation testing experience
• Relevant tertiary qualifications; testing certifications or equivalent experience in a technical software testing role
• Strong experience in using automated testing tools: Selenium, Cypress, Appium and Postman or commercial equivalents and automation scripting using javascript/ java preferred
• Experience transitioning business scenarios to test cases to automation (BDD/Cucumber knowledge preferred, but not essential)
• Exposure to performance testing and performance modeling and requirements using:
• Jira integrated Test Case Management tools: XRay, Zephyr, TestRail
• Automation Scripting Repositories: GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket or other
• Automatio

Job Rewards and Benefits