QA Automation Engineer

Purpose of the Role

As a Quality Аssurance Еngineer, you are the main driving force for the quality of the products developed in the company. You have to provide the needed level of testing and report any deviations from the expectations, or defects in the system. You understand how your work fits in the software development process, and what are the expected deliverables. You have to work effectively with other software engineers following the established processes and work conventions, and recommending changes which will lead to optimization and quality improvement.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible for the quality of your team(s) deliveries
• Analysis and clarification of requirements
• Drives the quality of the product, together with the other functional groups
• Creates and executes tests, configures the test environments
• Examines the test results and system recovery after encountering defects
• Evaluates the test results and define the found defects as per the requirements
• Helps with the creation and execution of automated tests, where feasible
• Participates in the definition and gathering of non-functional requirements
• Identifies risks prior to and during the testing phase of feature development
• Proactively gives recommendations for processes, products and documentation improvements

Required Experience & Knowledge

• Minimum of 3 years of professional experience in the software quality assurance field
• Working knowledge of structured test methodologies and processes
• Basic understanding of Linux administration; basic networking knowledge
• Working knowledge of SQL

Advantages

• Automation experience – API, HTML UI
• TDD, BDT practical knowledge
• Basic programming skills in any of these languages – Python, Ruby, Java, .Net, Bash, JavaScript
• Experience with any of the automation frameworks – Robot Framework, JMeter, LoadRunner, Cucumber, RSpec, TestComplete, or other Selenium-based frameworks

Skills and Attributes

• Excellent communication skills
• Good logical and analytical thinking
• Self-driven and motivated towards achieving results

Required Education & Qualifications

• Advanced level of both spoken and written English language
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or relevant experience
• Any relevant certificate would be considered a plus

NOTE: For this role, the working hours are from 5 am to 1 pm EST.