Automation Engineer

Automation Engineer is focused on software service automation, load and performance testing automation, and the automation of quality assurance tests.

This role will work closely with other teams to help discover and eliminate problems by gathering requirements and implementing process automation to solve these problems in an automated and scalable way, eliminating human error and creating efficiencies.

The automation engineer will work on a team of other engineers to create final automation products, and will be accountable for following LKQ North America secure coding guidelines and LKQ Global Security Policies. Must be able to work with NA IT standardized toolsets, as all work will be allocated, assigned, documented, and vetted through standardized toolsets leveraged by North America Application Development, including Jira and Confluence. Must be able to participate in user story grooming or technical grooming sessions as relevant. Individual will work with the NA IT Delivery Management function for delivering work assignments, and will functionally report to NA IT Quality Assurance Management for understanding work assignments, coaching, and other technical requirements of the role.

Essential Job Duties:

• Identify opportunities for automation within software processes.
• Design and execute QA tests using scripts that automatically test functionality.
• Design and execute load and performance tests to ensure scalability of solutions
• Run tests for databases, systems, applications, websites, and software.
• Identify bugs and quality issues in development, service or business processes.
• Collaborate with other teams or units to understand how automation can improve workflow.
• Gather requirements to develop the best automation solutions.

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE:

Required: Bachelors degree in Computer Science , Computer Engineering or other related field

Working knowledge of JavaScript write automation code. Knowledge about other coding languages or scripting languages such as C#, java node.js will be an added benefit