Position: Middle AQA Automation Engineer
Company: GlobalLogic
Experience required: 3y
English level: intermediate

Description:

App developers, stores and payment providers cross the threshold into the newly built unique ecosystem to converge, grow and thrive.

By bringing businesses together and powering e-commerce with unique data-driven insights, we deliver new business opportunities and new dimensions of growth for customers around the world. Being inside the Service circle means global merchants including Amazon, Google and Microsoft can work together with payment partners from Africa to the Americas, accelerating the performance of everyone on the inside.

Requirements:

Essential Skills
- Ability and enthusiasm to learn new technologies and techniques.
- Good analytical mind – problem solving skills; on your own or brainstorming with colleagues.
- Good investigatory skills – able to find, outline and fix issues that arise in the automation ecosystem.
- Strong communication skills, both spoken and written – to talk about your work with both technical and non-technical people.
- Experience in automated testing of APIs & REST Web services.
- Good experience of programming using Java.
- Experience with test automation tools (e.g. Pact, JUnit, Cucumber, etc.)
- Good experience in building automated functional regression test frameworks and suites.
- Experience with development collaboration and tracking tools such as Jira, Confluence.
- Able to manage your own time and handle multi-task delivery, working to short timescales.

Desirable
- Working experience in Agile development teams and understanding of development processes and concepts.
- Experience with Postman or similar API testing tools.
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines using GitLab or similar.
- Knowledge of cloud technologies such as AWS, Google or Azure.
- Experience of load and performance testing (e.g. using Gatling, JMeter, etc.).
- Experience in automated testing of Websites / Web applications.

Preferences:

AWS

Responsibilities:

Reporting to a team leader, the QA Engineer is responsible for performing the day-to-day QA activities required within the Agile development team. This includes writing test plans, creating, maintaining and executing automated test suites and performing manual and exploratory testing of new releases & bug fixes where required. The QA Automation Engineer will also be responsible for promoting an automation quality focus within the organisation and helping to drive a culture of continuous improvement in quality throughout the development lifecycle.

You will work in close collaboration with other engineers (QA, Developers, DevOps, Cloud Engineers, etc.) to help instil automation best practices through the organisation and to deliver changes and support needed to the automation framework and tooling throughout the full development cycle. Test automation is fundamental to ensuring that quality is instilled throughout the product development lifecycle and carries on through to the final Live product and the QA Automation Engineer is key to ensuring our capabilities to deliver on time and to high quality.

Some of your duties will include
- Create, maintain and support all aspects of automation tooling to best support agile software development and in line with the automation strategy.
- Assist in execution and debugging of automated tests occurring from both development processes and from execution within CI/CD pipelines.
- Contribute and promote automation best practices to the wider team and assist in driving the QA automation strategy.
- Help influence engineers on how they approach testing, guiding design of development test automation suites.
- Work with other QA engineers to identify automation support requirements early in the product development lifecycle.
- Support leading an automation-first and test-driven development mindset across the teams.

What We Offer

Exciting Projects: Come take your place at the forefront of digital transformation! With clients across all industries and sectors, we offer an opportunity to participate in creating market-defining products using the latest technologies.

Collaborative Environment: Expand your skills by collaborating with a diverse team of highly talented people in an open, laidback environment — or even abroad in one of our global centers or client facilities!

Work-Life Balance: GlobalLogic prioritizes work-life balance, which is why we offer flexible opportunities and options.

Professional Development: Our dedicated Learning & Development team regularly organizes certification and technical / soft skill training to help you realize your professional goals.

Excellent Benefits: We provide our consultants with competitive compensation and benefits

Fun Perks: We want you to love where you work, which is why we host sports classes, cultural, social and team building activities such as sports competitions and end-of-year corporate parties. Our vibrant offices also include dedicated GL Zones and rooftop decks where you can drink coffee or tea with your colleagues over a game of table football or darts!

About GlobalLogic

GlobalLogic is a full-lifecycle product development services leader that combines chip-to-cloud software engineering expertise and vertical industry experience to help our customers design, build, and deliver their next-generation products and digital experiences. We expertly integrate design, complex engineering, and agile delivery capabilities to deliver superior business outcomes for global brands in telecom, automotive, healthcare, technology, media and entertainment, manufacturing, and semiconductor industries.

Headquartered in Silicon Valley, GlobalLogic unites over 18,000 designers and engineers across the globe. Analysts like NASSCOM and Zinnov have recognized us for being a top company in our field, and we are consistently nominated as a preferred company by both global HR consulting firms and local boards. By creating an environment that is exciting and flexible, and by fostering growth through ongoing learning and development programs, we empower our consultants to achieve both their professional and personal goals.

At GlobalLogic, we make amazing products — and careers.