Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

Description:

* Understand design specifications and scenarios, and produce detailed test plans

* Produce high quality automated tests to agreed specifications and deadlines

* Work collaboratively within a project team using agile methodologies

* Participate in sprint planning, sprint demos and retrospectives

Required Skills:

* Strong Java/Python programming skills - experience and strong ability of agile, test-driven software development.

* Excellent verbal, written communication, and interpersonal skills

* Understanding of automation using Cucumber/ Gherkin testing

* Use and improve our Test Automation Frameworks as well as crafting frameworks!

* Be the go-to person for coding standards within Ruby or Java

* Work across enterprise and digital applications such as Web, Mobile and Desktop!

* Implement leading and Open-Source tooling and best processes (GIT, Jenkins, JIRA, Cucumber)

* Work on React and Node JS stack

* Collaborate with developers and business/product owner to clarify requirements, especially in terms of testability and completeness

What you'll bring:

* A deep level understanding of Software Testing and / or Quality Assurance.

* Experience working in Agile (TDD / BDD) environment

* Strong experience in Java or Ruby and Hands-on experience with Cucumber & Gherkin

* Strong experience in Automating frontend and backend API testing

* Creating and maintaining the test automation framework and identifying tests to be automated using BDD

* Experience using Continuous Integration tools (Hudson, Jenkins etc.), version control solutions (GIT, SVN etc.)

* Experience with JIRA – Defect Management and reporting