Senior Quality Assurance Engineer (Automation)

As a seasoned Quality Assurance Engineer specializing in automation and cutting-

edge software testing methodologies, you play a pivotal role in upholding the highest

quality standards within your team. Reporting directly to the Engineering Manager,

you spearhead the quality assurance efforts, ensuring seamless collaboration across

various functional teams. You serve as the beacon of excellence in product delivery

and deployment, setting the benchmark for quality standards. Your expertise serves

as a bridge to the QA Center of Practice, facilitating the exchange of best practices

within and beyond your team. Your primary objective is cultivating a culture of

excellence and efficiency in quality assurance, freeing up valuable time for your team

to focus on product development. By leveraging advanced tooling and coding

techniques, you seamlessly integrate automation testing into every team member's

daily workflow. Through close collaboration with cross-functional teams, you drive

the implementation of new features and enhancements, ultimately enhancing the

experience for over 9 million customers.

As our Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, you embrace the following

responsibilities:

• Take ownership and responsibility for the design and development of all

aspects of testing.

• Work on acceptance criteria and test scenarios with the Product Owner and

development team.

• Design, execute, and maintain test scenarios (manual & automated) and

automation capabilities for all test levels and types (e.g., automated,

regression, exploratory, etc.).

• Create and optimise test frameworks and integrate them into deployment

pipelines.

• Participate in the code review process for both production and test code to

ensure all critical cases are covered.

• Work on continuous testing processes from an agile perspective: align with

stakeholders what testing activity is required on a per-ticket basis.

• Monitoring test runs, application errors and performance.

• Making information flow, keeping the team informed and being a stakeholder

in releases and defect tracking.

• Share the best testing and quality practices and processes across Zooplus.

• Promote and coach the team towards a quality-focused mindset.

• Influence and lead the team towards continuous improvement and best

testing practices.

• Be the reference of the QA Center of Practice, promoting their practices

and influencing their strategy, bringing your team experience into their plan.

As a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, you must be able to provide among these:

• Knowledge of software testing theory.

• Comfortable in developing test automation frameworks from scratch

and maintaining existing frameworks.

• 7+ years of experience in manual software testing

• 6+ years of experience in software testing automation

• Strong experience in different testing practices (from unit to load to endurance

to cross-platform) specifically integrated within CI/CD.

• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and monitoring tools (e.g. Jenkins,

TeamCity, Kibana, Grafana, etc.).

• Knowledge with Bitbucket, K8s, Docker

• Knowledge of Web application testing, API testing, REST protocol and

microservice architecture concepts.

• Strong experience in Java, and its test-related frameworks, and other test

frameworks (e.g. Junit, Rest-assured, Cypress, Selenium), as well as its

usage under a CI/CD pipeline.

• Experience using Postman for API-related tests.

• Ability to work in an agile environment, engaged in Scrum.

• Ability to work in an autonomous, self-responsible and self-organised way.

• Able to effectively communicate in English.