Position: Senior Automation QA Engineer (Java)
Company: Exadel
Experience required: 3y
Category: QA Automation
English level: intermediate
Published: 2021-05-01T00:00:00+03:00

The company delivers advanced mobile, artificial intelligence, and connected car technologies through its platform, connecting a vibrant network of 350+ insurance companies, 24,000+ repair facilities, OEMs, hundreds of parts suppliers, and dozens of third-party data and service providers. The customer's collective set of solutions inform decision-making, enhance productivity, and help clients deliver faster and better experiences for end consumers. 
The сustomer’s company was ranked #17 in the Top 100 Digital Companies in Chicago in 2020 by Built in Chicago, an online community for digital technology entrepreneurs in Chicago, and was named one of Forbes best mid-sized companies to work for in 2019 – an important accolade and retention tool for the 2,600+ full-time company employees (alongside 350 dedicated contractors).
The сompany’s corporate headquarters is in downtown Chicago in the historic Merchandise Mart—a certified LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) building that is also known to be a technology hub within the broader metro.
 
About the Project:
The team creates a software platform for the collection, analysis, processing, and reporting of automatically generated vehicle telemetry for new automobiles. These services process terabytes of information and integrate with artificial intelligence models to identify and assess crashes and their severity. Driver behavior, active safety features, and environmental conditions are just some of the data attributes collected and evaluated in real time. In the event of accidents, these services initiate automated responses in the form of emergency assistance, vehicle transport, a replacement vehicle, medical services, etc.

Project Advantages:
● Industry standard REST APIs and SaaS
● Scalability challenge of collecting high frequency telemetry on millions of autos
● Big data processing algorithms
● Marketable open-source tools used extensively
● Agile development processes with integrated DevOps
● Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD)
 
Project Team:
QA works in lock step with the Development team in an Agile development process. We partner with the development team to develop and maintain unit and integration tests that run at compile time of every build. QA team members are key contributors to the source code review process required prior to checking in new code to the release branch. We create functional regression tests that are run at code deployment time, the test automation framework used to execute and report on regression tests, and load testing to verify the performance and scalability of all services. We work in a Scrum-based delivery model and deliver functional regression tests in parallel with the product under test so that new capabilities have automated validation at the conclusion of each sprint.
 
Project Tech Stack:
Allure, Appium, Bitbucket, Gatling and JMeter, Jenkins, Jira, JUnit, SonarQube, Spinnaker, Spinnaker, TestLink, TestNG
 
Project Stage:
Under Active Development
 
Responsibilities:
Be responsible for the design and implementation of test automation, frameworks, and tools used for the customer’s suite of software and analytics solutions
Work as an individual developer to develop and enhance automated tests for regression and feature testing, as well as framework libraries and new tools
Review product requirements in close collaboration with product owners and development
Author and review test plans, test strategies, test reports, and test cases with all key stakeholders
Become a subject matter expert; understand business use cases and feature implementation
Contribute to load, performance, service reliability, and stress testing
Contribute creative ideas to evolve our agile-based development and testing methodologies
Up level QA team maturity by contributing to code reviews, improving test frameworks, CI/CD, monitoring nightly tests, identifying code coverage gaps, and helping with other SDLC process components


Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree and 3+ years of software development and debugging experience in Java, C++, or other high-level programming language or master’s degree and 3+ years
Knowledge of industry standard test automation libraries and tools and experience developing test automation and/or new test frameworks
Experience with agile methodologies, continuous integration, and the full SDLC
Excellent written communication skills

Nice to have:
Direct experience with scripting via bash, Python, PERL, JavaScript, or other scripting tools will be a plus