Automation QA Engineer

Role & responsibilities

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced QA Engineer who has held a position in a commercial development environment, with excellent communication skills and experience of testing enterprise level web applications.

Key Technical Skills:

Commercial hands-on testing experience with some of the following technologies and practices including, but not limited to:

- Experience of Javascript, TestCafe or WebDriver IO or Cypress

- SQL (basic experience with MSSQL or PostgreSQL)

- Functional Test Automation

- Frontend Testing

Key Requirements:

• 4 to 6 years of IT experience in Javascript E2E framework automation (Preferred TestCafe)
• Strong experience with JavaScript is required.
• Good experience with Agile process
• Hands on experience with well-defined Automation frameworks and tools (e.g., TestCafe, Webdriver IO, Maven, Jenkins)
• Good experience with version control system (Git)
• Good in analysing requirements, writing test cases, and executing test cases manually
• Test results and issues to technical and non-technical team members will need to be explained in through detail.
• Knowledge on common tools like Jira
• Experience working with CICD pipelines
• Work with users and product to gain a functional understanding of the software application
• Responsible for development, maintenance, and execution of manual and automated test cases
• Responsible for baseline testing, regression testing, functional/integration testing, and post release validation of software application.
• Identify, document, and communicate all issues discovered during test case development and test execution.
• Interact with development team and other stakeholders to help identify, analyse and resolve issues.
• Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Product Validation and maintenance

• Validate and maintain testing code in support of new product development, feature enhancement and issue resolution
• Ensure adherence to coding standards in own code for automated test cases.
• Provide QA support for existing products and help ensure the smooth running of their updates and maintenance
• Provide clear communication to project team and report on progress against planned milestones
• Liaise regularly with product managers to agree task priorities