Position: QA Automation Engineer (Agile Tester)
Company: Zfort Group
Experience required: 5y
Category: QA Automation
English level: upper
Published: 2020-12-01T00:00:00+02:00

Zfort Group is looking for a QA Automation Engineer (Agile Tester) to join a dedicated team.
We are a company in the west of Germany that is building a marketplace in the handicraft industry. 
We use Spryker software in the backend and as frontend a special technology based on React.
We work according to 100% Scrum and our standard language is English, i.e. the new colleagues should speak good English and be familiar with agile development, especially in working and thinking independently and finding solutions.

Your tasks:

- You are part of an agile development team and work together with developers, product owners, and representatives of the specialist departments on the implementation of technical requirements for the e-commerce system from the perspective of quality assurance;
- You participate in the complete story life cycle. You carry out tests, act as a mentor/coach in the team with regard to testing and quality aspects, build up both professional and technically relevant knowledge, develop automated tests and carry out manual, explorative tests;
- As part of the testing team, you will be jointly responsible for setting up and maintaining a testing infrastructure, designing and implementing or managing the various test levels and test phases within the sprint;
- From a QA point of view, you support the creation of and compliance with Definition of Ready and Definition of Done;
- You will support the team in the release management process and in the design and maintenance of test data for functional and load tests;
- You implement agile testing methods and quality assurance of sprint and final test reports;
- You process internal feedback and let it flow into the product improvement process.

Your profile:

- You have several years of experience in quality assurance for web software projects;
- Experience with e-commerce software, API (REST / SOAP) driven (web) architectures (SOA / microservices) is an advantage;
- Certification according to ISTQB or an agile test certification such as iSQI CAT is advantageous;
- You’re keeping yourself up to date with the latest test methods and relevant developments;
- You are skilled in working with open-source browser test frameworks (e.g. - WebdriverIO, Selenium WebDriver, Nightwatch.js, Galen);
You are familiar with common QA tools and have practical experience with test automation;
- You have hands-on experience with BDD and TDD and know tools like Cucumber;
- You have a high degree of independence, a sense of responsibility, and an eye for detail;
- You have a basic understanding of JavaScript and PHP development and understanding of interfaces in a microservice architecture such as REST or SOAP;
- You have experience working within an agile team;
- Fluent written and spoken English is a must have, German is a plus.