Senior QA Automation Engineer at Safeguard Global

Role Overview

• We have an opportunity for an experienced Senior QA Automation Engineer to be involved throughout the development lifecycle of the Safeguard Global Engineering Team with particular responsibility for the quality of software development and deployment with emphasis on the implementation of test automation.
• You are a quality champion. You understand quality isn’t one person’s responsibility, and work with everyone involved in building to make quality a top-level concern. You build an understanding of the business requirements so that they can be effectively tested. You are an expert in leveraging automation to build-in quality as part of a reliable, continuous quality process. You get into the details of developing test cases, uncovering edge cases, and performing manual tests where necessary to ensure the software created is fit for purpose.
• During testing you will be thinking ‘outside of the box’ to understand the various scenarios and configurations that customers use to ensure customer quality is maintained and through doing so drive regression testing across the products. You will be responsible for defining and driving innovative automated testing strategies and toolsets into our overall development processes that support and enhance the current Quality Assurance processes within Safeguard Global.

Responsibilities

• Play a key role on a high performing team
• Advance the values of the organization (caring, accountability, integrity, empowerment, passion, fun)
• Deliver outcomes
• Work as part of cross functional, passionate agile project teams to ensure quality is driven into the heart of the development process from requirements definition through to delivery
• Designing, developing and supporting frameworks for our test infrastructure and providing automation expertise to our development teams
• Contributing toward predictable delivery of quality releases
• Research, recommend and implement tools as needed with the goal of increasing automation
• Coach team members on automation
• Proactively bringing issues and problems to the attention of the team; proposing and implementing innovative solutions to solve them
• Be meticulous about documentation
• Use appropriate measures and KPIs to validate and report on software quality
• Work closely with the software engineering team, Product Management and Technical Operations as well as business users and Senior Management, as required
• Be a creative thinker who can quickly identify and test for functional ‘edge cases’ outside of expected functionality workflow
• Have the drive to become an expert in:
• Performance and scalability testing
• Security penetration testing

Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering preferred
• Strong background in, and at least 6+ years of working in tooling or QA automation
• Thorough understanding of automated QA processes in agile development environments
• Strong communication skills, proactive and willingness to collaborate with other QA team members and developers
• Experience in writing, executing and monitoring automated test suites using a variety of technologies including, but not limited to Webdriver, Cypress, Browserstack, Saucelabs, Grid and TestRail
• Coding experience in JavaScript and REST API testing
• Comfortable in working with version control tools; e.g. git
• Proficient with bug tracking and test management toolsets to support development processes
• Proficient working with relational databases such as SQL Server, DB2 & PostgreSQL
• Some knowledge of Unix/Linux OS, shell scripting or Expect scripting
• Building test infrastructures using containerization technologies such as Docker and working within continuous delivery / continuous release pipeline processes
• Testing enterprise applications deployed to AWS
• Understanding of NoSQL database technologies such as MongoDB or DynamoDB
• CTFL, ISTQB, CSQA or CSTE certified