Automation QA Engineer

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About the project:

Our client is a publicly-traded American telecommunications company. The company is the second-largest television station operator in the United States by the number of stations, owning or operating a total of 193 stations across the country in over 100 markets.

We are developing a SaaS platform for promoting, monitoring and analytics of advertising in digital channels.

The Automation QA engineer role plays an important part in our company’s product development process. Our ideal candidate will be responsible for conducting tests before product launches to ensure software runs smoothly and meets client needs while being cost-effective. If you hold an engineering background and enjoy providing end-to-end solutions to software quality problems, we’d like to meet you.

This is a great position for an ambitious QA Automation Engineer to get to the next career step and influence the quality of the many US and international products.

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Tasks:

• Support of the existing auto test. Daily analysis of auto test executions, fixing framework defects, updating locators, implementing required steps, CI/CD support, etc.
  
• Continuous improvement of existing framework. We have quite an extensive backlog divided by milestones (improved cross-browser testing, security testing, performance testing, self bench marking, overall test reliability etc), so all teammates are involved in framework development.
  
• Writing BDD auto tests for UI and API. Daily increment of automated tests.
  
• Participation in Auto QA team Agile ceremonies. We’re working in Kanban so the major activity would be refinement and milestones/epics plannings. We expect that new team member will be good at communication and actively contribute new ideas/solutions/improvements.
  
• Bug Reporting. Create clear and meaningful defects in JIRA.
  

Our tech stack: TS, NodeJS, ES6, CodeceptJS, Playwright, Axios, Gherkin, Allure, Docker, GitHub.

Requirements:

• 2+ years of experience in quality assurance/testing, 1+ years in automation
  
• Experience in automated web / API testing
  
• Deep knowledge of any programming language and OOP
  
• Understanding of Server/Client architecture
  
• Experience working in Scrum/Agile teams
  
• Experience working with task tracking systems, e.g. Jira
  
• Participating in QA activities planning
  
• Been able to work in a frequently changing environment(goals, tasks, priorities might be changed quite fast)
  
• Team player, a fast learner and passionate about advancing in the QA world
  
• Upper-Intermediate English to communicate by email and on conference calls
  

Nice to have:

• Experience in test frameworks/tools (Playwright/Puppeteer, CodeceptJS, Selenium, Wdio, etc)
  
• Experience in using Unit Testing tools (Jest, Mocha, etc)
  
• Understanding Web technologies (HTTP, HTML, CSS etc), data formats (XML, JSON, YAML)
  
• Understanding of TypeScript & ES6 JavaScript
  
• Experience with Cucumber(Gherkin, BDD)
  

Benefits

• We are building hyper-growth careers in Cloud Native, AI/ML-centric projects, using the best Silicon Valley practices, anywhere in the world.
• Remote anywhere
• Coworking space financial coverage
• Flexible working hours
• B2B with multiple benefits 
• Paid days off annually: 20 days leave, 12 days holidays, 10 days sick leave
• Workspace program: 2500$ for work equipment of your choice.
• English language lessons on all levels
• Performance financial incentives for the people who demonstrate interest in the company’s development.
• Paid courses and certifications: example AWS, CKA, ML certifications
• Participation at international conferences: like CNCF Summits, Kubecon, others