Position: Lead QA  Automation
Company: SoftHouseGroup
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

The Test Automation Engineer's role is to develop and maintain quality assurance standards and measures effectively through automation and took the responsibility to own and build a suite of automation scripts for both functional and regression test cases. 
 
**Responsibilities:**
- Building a test automation program for all test automation developers within a Domain-Driven Microservices application stack;
- Support quality assurance measures and automation test scripts and harness for regression process;
- Support QA by creating test cases, preparing test data and acceptance criteria based on business requirements and system specifications;
- Initiate and champion a test suite and portfolio on our test automation platform for each Business Capability or Application;
- Record test results, analyze errors, document defects, provide feedback to developers, track issue resolution;
- Participate in sprint planning, sprint retrospective, sprint review, and daily scrum when part of a scrum team;
- Lead defect/test automation reviews with QA leads, and Software Development leadership;
- Leadership in change control processes, practices, and guidelines for transformational activities;
- Maintain a Test Automation knowledge base library;
- Assist with the conversion of manual testing to automated integrated testing where possible.
 
**Required skills:**
- At least 5 years of relevant experience testing enterprise web applications and system integrations;
- Strong knowledge of database, SQL, Internet protocols, web services, REST, XML;
- Strong knowledge of system testing best practices for both manual and automation methodologies;
- Good experience with JavaScript, Selenium;
- Experience with Lambda Test, Protractor or similar end-to-end test automation platforms;
- Experience in testing web services and microservices;
- Experience deploying test environments;
- Strong orientation toward excellence in results and proven ability to quickly become a Subject-Matter Expert;
- Experience working on projects using a variety of SDLC methodologies (e.g., Agile Scrum);
- Excellent oral and written communications skills;
- At least Upper-Intermediate English or higher.
 
**Will be a plus:**
- Intermediate knowledge in Object-oriented languages; Java, Typescript, .NET, C# is preferred;
- Practical knowledge in creating mock objects and importing data for use in databases and spreadsheets;
- Experience with development and/or business analysis experience.
 
**What do we offer:**
- flexible working arrangements;
- medical insurance;
- challenging, and fast-growing products;
- opportunities to own development from start to finish;
- opportunities to speak with clients and the development team only in English;
- paid vacations, and sick leaves.
 
**Looking forward to working with you!
SoftHouseGroup team**