Contract, Principal Automation Test Engineer at Nintex

About the role: 

Principal Automation Test Engineers are the technical authority on strategic, complex test automation and Quality projects. You support the product and QA domain goals by enabling multiple teams or product areas. You contribute to the company's test automation strategy and its long-term technical direction.  

You support teams in developing test automation frameworks and explore the latest trends in test automation. You research and lead the adoption of new approaches and technologies while striving for excellence in the test automation domain. You set technical standards and enhance the productivity of testing teams. 

Your contribution will be:  

• You design, build, and suggest test architectures to improve automation testing and quality across an entire product portfolio. 
• You collaborate closely with Product, Architecture, and Development to ensure automation framework can test the Product Software at multiple points including UI, API, and server code  
• You lead discussions around test tooling, best practices, and improving test automation. 
• You demonstrate expertise across various testing tools, languages (C#, JavaScript, Ruby, etc.), and platforms (desktop, cloud, mobile, etc.) 
• You empower teams to improve test optimization (pass rate, execution speed, etc.), and provide technical guidance on improving delivery speed. 
• You create new or refactor existing test frameworks from the lowest levels for increased efficiency and empower non-technical audiences to be able to understand and use the framework 
• You provide guidance in setting up test infrastructure and test environments to support   continuous delivery with automation.  
• You identify and research emerging technologies that will serve the wider engineering group to aid testing efficiency. 
• You identify and provide ongoing technical guidance to team members across Nintex and mentor selected engineers to increase team’s overall quality and productivity. 
• You demonstrate expert knowledge of non-functional testing (performance, security, accessibility, reliability, etc.) and use that knowledge to build-out automated testing solutions that ensure acceptance and quality in non-functional testing. 
• You attend and contribute to team meetings and ceremonies (daily scrum meetings, planning meetings, demos, and retrospective meetings) on a need basis. 
• You actively look at ways to improve Nintex’s quality and testing landscape and encourage re-use and knowledge sharing.  
• You promote our culture through the Nintex tenets.

To be successful, we think you need:  

• Experience working on localization projects
• 6+ years experience with automation testing
• Selenium experience as well as PlayWright, Jmeter etc
• Experience with developing and executing test strategies