Senior Automation QA Engineer at Clickatell

Purpose

We are looking for a creative and talented testing automation specialist with strong scripting skills. The purpose of this role is to work closely with Test Management to ensure high quality and efficient testing practices.

Responsibilities of the Role

• Apply various testing methods and tools to technically test Clickatell’s products and integration to other applications and services
• Assisting in testing process for major feature releases, and finding opportunities for automation
• Writing and maintaining automated test scripts and frameworks for functional, regression and end-to-end testing
• Ensuring automated test frameworks are integrated into the software development process
• Convert existing manual regression tests into automated test solutions
• Partnering with multiple engineering teams and other QA engineers to understand and fill gaps in our testing ecosystem
• Identify and provide assessments of potential risks affecting schedule or quality, escalating matters to management and relevant stakeholders as needed

Requirements of the Role

• Having worked in and has a deep level of understanding in the following:

1. Manual and automated testing using tools such as Selenium, Postman, Swagger, REST Assured, TestNG
2. Testing web services and APIs with XML and JSON payloads
3. BDD and Cucumber advantageous
4. JIRA, Confluence, and bug tracking tools such as TestFLO or Zephyr
5. Reporting tools such as Allure
6. Build and automation tools such as Jenkins and Maven
7. Databases SQL language and scripting (PostgreSQL, MySQL)

Bonus skills and experience desired:

1. Programming experience in Java or other language
2. Test Automation experience of Asynchronous web application protocols like WebSockets
3. Test Automation experience of Chat Commerce Applications
4. Git or other source control management tools
5. AWS (Amazon Web Services) or other cloud-based infrastructures
6. Microservices architecture testing
7. Integration with telecommunications service providers

• At least 7+ years of experience in Automation framework development using Java/selenium with exposure to TDD, BDD.
• Computer Science Degree a significant advantage.