Senior Automation Engineer

Role & responsibilities

What you will do:

• Design, develop, execute and maintain test scripts on Big Screen devices, STBs, mobile or web by leveraging coding skills and designated automation tools/frameworks
• Ensure test coverage meets overall system and software requirements
• Collaborate with internal and external teams, the team members will play a key role in software quality assurance of solutions that will be deployed in products worldwide.
• Testing and automation will range from validation of the user interface to sometimes low level validation of media streaming and broadcast technologies.
• Perform functional testing of new features and changes, and regression testing on releases, third party changes
• Addressing bugs & defects found during the development cycle.
• Deploy artifacts to different product environments (i.e. development, QA, UAT), in apps.
• Interact with cross-functional scrum team, including product owners, designers, developers as well as other internal or external stakeholders, by example, joining sprint planning meetings, backlog refinements and sprint retrospectives to ensure the app quality meets specified functional, performance and business requirements
• Proactive communication with key stakeholders
• Provide task estimations
• Help to replicate hard to reproduce issues. Provide a clear and accurate description of each bug found. Track production issues and continuously identify high risk areas to improve test coverage.
• Write and maintain manual and automated test artifacts for the product.
• Collaborate with scrum teams to improve testing coverage, efficiency.

Preferred candidate profile

• 5+ years of hands on automation experience
• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT (or related discipline), or equivalent working experience.
• Solid understanding of software development methodologies and concepts, like Agile/Scrum, Waterfall, Continuous Delivery, Test Driven Development.
• Ability to work independently, with guidance from Senior Engineers/PM/EL/EM.
• Excellent problem solving skills and passion for technical challenges.
• Interested and eager to dive into new technology areas and immerse in topics relevant to the business.
• Good written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Knowledge of platform specific languages, frameworks and tools.
• Knowledge of software development fundamentals (data structures, algorithms...).
• Great analytical thinking skills
• Programming knowledge preferred: Python, Java and Javascript
• Experience with creation and maintenance of test automation systems
• Experience in CI tools (e.g. Jenkins) and code repositories and SW development tools (e.g. Git)
• Good understanding of OOP
• Experience in at least one of these automation frameworks: Selenium, Appium, Espresso, Cypress. Experience on other UI test automation frameworks is also valued.