Position: Senior Automation QA (Java) Engineer for Ciklum Digital
Company: Ciklum
Category: QA Automation
Experience required: 3y
English level: intermediate
Published: 2021-03-01T00:00:00+02:00

Our client is a bright new star within the I-gaming Industry – created by industry veterans who have founded and managed several successful businesses over the last decade. They are present in Europe and Asia – with a unique and proven track record of building and nurturing strong brands, culture & work environment.

Their vision is to take global leadership and change the competitive landscape for Game Studios, Game Operators and Lead Generation.

The client currently holds a Gambling license in Malta and Sweden.

About Ciklum Quality Engineering Team:

Quality Engineering Center of Excellence is an international award-winning Quality Engineering department that has rapidly evolved over the past 7 years to become a mature Quality Engineering service provider with 250+ professionals working in 7 main directions: QA Consulting and Management, DevOps, Manual, Automation, Support, Performance, Cyber Security and Robotic Process Automation.

Responsibilities:
- Collaboration with development teams (developers/manual QAs/DevOps);
- Automation of regression and other functional testing of Web applications;
- Building and maintaining automated testing frameworks;
- Code review tests create by colleagues, unit tests created by developers;
- Analyse and make decisions on test scripts quality;
- Ensure compliance with the best practices of test automation;
- Integrating automated testing into CI process;
- Test case adjustments for automated testing needs;
- Test data and test environment preparations;
- Making conclusion and reporting about stability of the product under test;
- Possibility to perform testing activities on several projects, communicate with developers and project managers

Requirements:
- Good understanding of automation design patterns and software testing principles and methodologies;
- 4+ years of professional experience in QA;
- 3+ years of professional experience in QA Automation Web/Mobile testing;
- Hands-on experience building automation code following BDD approach with Cucumber;
- Proven experience with TestNG/JUnit and Maven/Gradle;
- Good knowledge of Java programming language;
- Solid skills in Selenium WebDriver / Selenide;
- Good understanding of CSS and XPATH selectors syntax;
- Experience using virtualization (Docker, Vagrant etc);
- Experience of working with version control systems (e.g. GIT, SVN and others);
- Understanding of Agile/Scrum/Kanban;
- Good English skills – Intermediate and above

Desirable:
- Experience with designing of automation frameworks from scratch;
- Strong knowledge of JavaScript and experience using JS test frameworks like Jest, WebdriverJs/WebdriverIO/Protractor would be a great plus;
- Experience with puppeteer would be desirable;
- Understanding of continuous integration processes and experience with tools like GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins, teamcity, or similar would be helpful;
- Some experience with cloud-based automation solutions like BitBar, Saucelabs, Browserstack could be useful

Personal skills:
- Has sufficient communication skills for effective dialogue with customers and colleagues;
- Collaborates in a team effectively;
- Is able to plan, schedule and monitor own work within short time horizons;
- Demonstrates a rational and organized approach to work;
- Understands and uses appropriate methods, tools and applications. Identifies and negotiates own development opportunities;
- Works under routine direction, without frequent reference to others;
- Good analytical skills;
- Good team player, motivated to solve complex tasks;
- Strong communication and problem-solving skills;
- Self-motivated, self-disciplined and result-oriented;
- Strong attention to details and accuracy

What's in it for you:
- Be a part of highly professional Ciklum QA expert community, the winner of the 2018 European Software Testing Award in the Category “Global Testing Team of the Year” (2018);
- Very close cooperation with the client;
- Possibility to propose solutions on a project;
- Dynamic and challenging tasks;
- Ability to influence project technologies;
- Team of professionals: learn from colleagues and gain recognition of your skills;
- Low bureaucracy, European management style;
- Continuous self-improvement, trainings, QA knowledge sharing meetings