Position: QA Automation Engineer (Python + AWS)
Company: Valtech
Experience required: 3y
Category: QA Automation
English level: upper
Published: 2023-02-01T00:00:00+02:00

Valtech is looking for an AQA Engineer (Python + AWS cloud) for a huge retail UK project. It is a multi-brand online retailer and financial services provider in the United Kingdom and Ireland. A total of 4 million active customers are served by more than 2000 brands.

**The Opportunity**

We are looking for a AQA Engineer with Python, and AWS cloud background to join our network of more than 5500 consultants in 22 countries.

Numerous new and ongoing projects ranging from enterprise content solutions, mobile apps, and data services to experience-driven enterprise e-commerce, user experience, and marketing. Global opportunities to work with different industry verticals: retail & luxury, financial, healthcare, travel & hospitality, automotive, media & entertainment.

Valtech is a founding member of MACH Alliance, a group that educates enterprises on best-of-breed Microservices, APIs, Cloud, and Headless (MACH) technology. Among the projects delivered are works for Levi's, BMW Online Store, Aerolíneas Argentinas.
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**The ideal candidate's skills include:**

There are a wide range of technologies being used within the tribe. We are looking for people with experience in the following:

— Implementing or contributing towards a microservice based QA strategy
— Working to help embed a behavioral driven approach, such as BDD
— Experience in developing and executing automated tests in different platforms using Python
— UI test experience, ideally Cypress
— API test experience, ideally Supertest (other similar API automated testing experience is ok)
— Performance testing, ideally K6 or JMeter
— Contract testing
— Code Repository (Gitlab)
— Cloud environment — AWS
— CI/CD Pipelines (Jenkins/Gitlab)
— Upper-Intermediate English

We don’t expect you to be experienced in everything listed above, we are realistic. What is important is having some of the skills, but also having ideas to bring to the table, and wanting to have an input in to how we do things and want to pick up new skills along the way.
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**The Role**

As a Senior QA Automation Engineer you’ll be expected to:

— support current teams in embedding a test focused, automation first approach, whilst delivering products that align to our client’s key business goals;
— good, demonstratable skills/experience around framework definition (and implementation/roll-out of the framework)
— assist in the evolution of our new microservice focused QA strategy, working within a squad but also sharing knowledge throughout the QA community and wider tribe;
— have the ability to coach and mentor other team members;
— work within our model, Agile software development . For these roles you’ll need experience in Agile practice such as BDD.

As a consultant and as a binding part between engineers and our clients you are expected to develop expertise both in technology and the means to communicate complex concepts and rationale to non-techies. We’ll encourage and support this with frequent opportunities to share ideas internally. We also have consultants who frequently deliver at regional, national and global conferences.
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**Benefits**

**Mental and physical health:**
/ Medical insurance
/ Sports reimbursement budget
/ Home office support
/ A number of free psychological and legal consultations
/ Maternity & paternity leave support

**Personal and professional development:**
/ Internal workshops & learning initiatives
/ English language classes compensation
/ Professional certifications reimbursement
/ Participation in professional local & global communities
/ Growth Framework to manage expectations and define the steps to move towards the selected career
/ Mentoring program with the ability to become a mentor or a mentee to grow to a higher position

Valtech Ukraine has a system of progressive benefit packages in place – the longer you stay with the company – the more benefits you get.
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For us, at Valtech our main priority has always been people. Valtech has created One Fund to support Ukrainian colleagues who have found their lives turned upside down in these tough times.