Automation Test Engineer

A Test Automation Engineer is responsible for the quality, robustness, and usability of our applications and platform. Our customers expect the most reliable, functional, user friendly, fast, and repeatable software experience, and this role must ensure our development team provides that.

Responsibilities

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the following satisfactorily; other duties may be assigned. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Participate in research and development as part of a scrum team working on new and existing product lines
• Automate test cases required for acceptance of new features or defect fixes
• Create test plans and new test cases for your scrum team, and participate in review of test plans and test cases from other team members
• Perform code reviews for test automation merge requests from other team members
• Help identify and implement new test infrastructure required to support new functionality or products
• Execute regression tests and report issues as part of feature development and the release process
• Help triage and investigate defects reported by our Customer Experience team, including helping to resolve active customer issues
• Find gaps or deficiencies in our product functionality, workflows, and user experience and raise new ideas, propose solutions, and work with the product team and scrum teams to prioritize and implement those improvements

Expertise:

The following technological expertise is desired, but not required:

• Kiwi, TestRail, or some other test case management system
• Selenium, Pytest, Behave, or some other test automation framework
• Experience with CI/CD
• Scripting and one or more programming languages, especially python and bash
• Experience with Linux, especially Debian
• Storage technologies like ZFS, SMB, NFS, Lustre, and Object Storage (e.g. S3)
• Cloud storage integration with one or more Cloud Providers (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Testing Highly Available Systems and Clusters
• Familiarity with consensus protocols and related software (e.g. paxos, raft, pacemaker, corosync)