Position: Lead Test Automation Engineer (Java)
Company: GlobalLogic
Category: QA Automation
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

Job Description
GlobalLogic Kharkiv team is seeking a self-motivated and energetic Lead Test Automation Engineer with 5+ years of relevant experience.

The right candidate must be a team player with strong communication skills and be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment. This position requires starting the project from scratch and effectively building a mixed team of test automation engineers and manual test engineers.

The successful candidate should possess the right mix of test automation experience on a variety of different applications, as well as a demonstrated ability to create an E2E framework.

The candidate will be responsible for all testing-related decisions on the project. Candidates will collaborate with QA team members, development team members, and project managers.

Experience in software QA methodologies, tools, and processes

Proven test design skills

Practical experience in writing clean code

Experience in the creation of project-level artifacts

Deep hands-on experience with framework creation

Proficiency with at least one OOP language and one scripting language (Java is preferred)

Deep understanding of modern test automation patterns and standards

Hands-on experience with different types of test automation

Excellent communication skills

Analytical mind and problem-solving aptitude

Effective time management

Fluent spoken and written English

Will be a plus: Experience in testing of component-based design systems with the support of Design Team 

 

Job Responsibilities
Start a project from scratch

Define and drive QA strategy for the team, including resourcing, testing methodology, automation approach, and manual testing approach

Make key technical decisions

Represent the voice of QA in team-level and cross-team planning activities

Ensure mutual expectations between QA and other functions (Product, Development, Infrastructure, etc.) are clear

Balance workload among QA team members taking into account business needs and individual skills, interests, and availability

Create a framework from scratch and define all necessary side tools 

Perform code review

Strictly follow QMS procedures and processes

Provide team status on time

Continuously improve testing on the project

Participate in QA Initiatives, collaborate with other test engineers

 

Department/Project Description
GlobalLogic is going to build an analytical platform for the client. A platform that will be gathering information about some companies from various sources will normalize accommodated data according to the predefined flow and will show it to the user as a set of analytical dashboards. The gathered and processed information will let the customers make decisions regarding the business state of the investigated companies. Analytical information will help customers to predict the future state of the appropriate companies and improve customer’s business processes.
The client provides high value analysis and support to partner companies for identification and mitigation emerging business challenges. Today the customer’s business processes are highly manual and fragmented.
The project is aimed to define and bring to life a digital platform that connects the client employees with relevant and meaningful information about their portfolio holdings, enabling insights and action.