| Title | QA Automation Engineer |
| Posting Date: | 06/29/2020 |
| Location: | Texas |
| Job Type | Full Time |
Job Description:
As QA Automation Engineer you will develop automated test solutions to ensure the accuracy and reliability of Boats Groups software. Functional and performance tests will be driven through UI and API automation, and be strengthened by your interactions within the development team. You will analyse requirements, calling on your extensive knowledge, experience and understanding of how software fails, to build efficient test coverage. Your tests will fit into the development release pipeline and support the teams ability to achieve continuous deployment.
Responsibilities and Duties:
Understand the short and long term direction of Boats Group.
Analyze specific and implied requirements and collaborate with other members of the team to design, build and deliver features to verify those requirements.
Understand test automation patterns, practices and architectural styles and how and when to apply them.
Contribute to the continued development and maintenance of several high-traffic, high availability web sites, including working with legacy systems
Communicate effectively with other employees both inside and outside the development team.
Document systems, procedures, and processes relevant to our suite of applications.
Provide technical leadership across features, projects and tools.
Work closely with other QA Automation Engineers to ensure consistency and the technical success of our projects.
Stay current on software development trends and advise on which ones, if any, Boats Group should adopt.
Scale test environments to increase coverage and reduce overall test time.
Build and extend tooling for performance testing.
Required Experience, Skills and Qualifications:
B.Sc. in Computer Science/related field of study or equivalent experience
5+ years professional experience in test automation, preferably for a complex enterprise web applications in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
Experience developing with Java, Browser-side JavaScript, Selenium, HTML/CSS, Mobile applications, Database verifications and SQL queries.
Experience with version control systems
An understanding of continuous integration, continuous deployment and unit testing
An understanding and promoter of the agile software development processes
Our Evolving Development Shop
Test Automation: java, node.js, maven, selenium, appium, TestNG, sql, serenity libraries
Infrastructure: AWS, Jenkins, Docker, BitBucket, Jira, Confluence
Websites and APIs: react, node.js, java, scala, php, perl