Senior Automation Engineer in Rakuten

18 липня 2024

Senior Automation Engineer

Київ, Одеса, віддалено

Rakuten Advertising is seeking a Senior Automation Engineer to join our development team. The ideal candidate will build and execute comprehensive suites of automated test plans and test cases, maintain and enhance our existing automation framework, and continuously evaluate test cases for inclusion in regression, integration, performance, and load testing. The Automation Engineer will collaborate closely with developers in small scrum teams to deliver high-quality products efficiently and cost-effectively.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute test plans and test cases with a strong emphasis on using code to solve technical challenges and shorten the test cycle through automation.
• Estimate test efforts, analyze and communicate test results, and participate in daily QA activities.
• Contribute to our performance and scalability testing efforts and improve the test frameworks, tools, and technologies used by the organization to maintain high quality.
  
  • This includes writing specialized testing tools for our software platform.
• Collaborate with Development, PMO, and Product Management to deliver applications within timelines.
• Work with other QA members to design and implement test and validation strategies.
• Execute and manage test cases and results, report on test and defect metrics.
• Create, execute, and troubleshoot automated test scenarios across our systems.
• Contribute to robust, scalable, and high-quality test automation solutions for functional, regression, and performance testing.
• Participate in building a continuous integration (CI) environment and ongoing process improvement activities.
• Identify required improvements in the test and development processes; contribute to our automation tools to address specific needs.
• Maintain a high-quality bar in a complex and constantly evolving workspace.
• Collaborate daily with developers, PMO, and Product Management.
  Required Skills and Experience:

• At least 2 years of experience in backend (API) testing, including writing manual and automated tests for APIs, preferably using Postman.
• At least 1 year of experience in manual data testing, with ETL testing experience preferred.
• Proficiency in writing and executing SQL queries.
• Experience with UI automation tools, particularly Cypress.
• Design and development skills in JavaScript and database query languages.
• Experience working with repositories in GitHub.
• Basic knowledge of continuous integration practices, preferably using CircleCI or Jenkins.
• Interest in working with all components including UI, API, and database.
• Interest in both automation and manual testing.
• Understanding of software design principles, patterns, algorithms, data structures, and multi-threading concepts.
• Experience with software testing and automated test techniques with a strong focus on quality throughout the entire software development cycle.
• Good knowledge of object-oriented programming, along with requisite coding and debugging skills.
• Proven ability to translate functional requirements and use cases into working test plans and test cases.
• Experience building highly automated environments using virtual and cloud resources is strongly desired.
• Strong customer focus, excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Experience working in an agile environment.
• Passion for improving code quality through interaction with the development team.
• Demonstrated skill in using coding standards and being an active participant in code reviews.