Position: Architect Automation Engineer
Company: Luxoft
Category: QA Automation
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

The EDM Quality Assurance team comprises of Highly skilled and experienced Testing professionals located in US, Europe and India. The team supports the high quality of software by independently verifying that software functionality conforms to business requirements using a combination of manual and technical testing techniques. The team is also responsible for verifying technical aspects of the implementation including the performance and scalability of the solution.

We are looking for experienced testing professionals to join its EDM team. This position is a hands-on test build /execution role. It is a highly technical position and will require strong knowledge of automation and more specifically testing of microservices based architectures. We are looking for individuals that can lead, provide thought leadership, work in an agile manner and are passionate about technology.

Responsibilities:
 - Create overall Automation approach and provide ongoing effort estimations to build out tests for each user story for sprint
 - Demonstrable experience building deterministic, repeatable tests that assert business specifications
 - Closely working with PO/Dev and work toward signing off the stories
 - Proactively learn new languages, libraries, and platforms as needed. Adapt quickly to changing requirements.
 - Leverage frameworks for Contract Testing (eg PACT / DREDD or equivalent)
 - Implement the above frameworks in CI/CD environments / nightly runs in TeamCity/ GITLAB or Equivalent
 - Maintain and Contribute to existing framework
 - Implement Shift-left approach and execute system under test using API test-doubles/virtualization

 - Must have experience in implementing automation solutions within an Agile development lifecycle
 - Knowledge and experience of financial markets
 - Demonstrated ability to work in a globally distributed software development team
 - Define best-practice testing approaches

Mandatory Skills Description:
 - Strong Experience working with Test Automation Frameworks, for example Protractor/Selenium
 - Minimum 6+ years exp in Automation scripting
 - Practical experience with automated testing of RESTful APIs,
 - Strong programming skills/Postman/DB knowledge
 - Experience in version control example Git, bitbucket or any other
 - Ability to define appropriate testing approaches for given requirements
 - Knowledge of JavaScript frameworks such as NodeJS, Angular and TypeScript
 - Must be prepared to be a hands-on contributor


 - A graduate / post graduate
 - Fluent in English, spoken and written
 - Solid technical background in implementing object-oriented systems

Nice-to-Have Skills:
 - Able to provide regular progress and status updates on your development tasks to your manager and peers
 - Manage and track progress of ongoing items you depend on
 - Experience in testing distributed, service-oriented systems will be a plus
 - Experience in Docker would be a plus



Residence in Poland is mandatory