Senior Engineer - Quality Automation
Responsibilities
Help with and implement our QA Architectural Artifacts
All testing systems, their feedback loops and mechanisms, logging, reporting and interconnectivity
Process artifacts that detail how, where and why quality controls and test mechanisms exist across the entire SDLC
Implementation level architecture for good, scalable and maintainable testing strategies across disparate use cases (Web, Mobile, Data Engineering, Al etc)
Contribute to and maintain our org wide Architecture Decision Records
Support the delivery and maintenance of our QA Engineering Policies, Procedures and Standards
CI/CD practices, environment configuration, feedback loops etc
Backend tooling, frameworks, their application, quality gating and measurement
Technology stack/services consultancy and selection in accordance with technical and quality requirements (scalability, performance, security, compliance)
Support our QA Operational Practices
Drive Ecommerce and Partstown wide quality automation projects
Integration, Acceptance, Performance, Security level testing platforms
Govern, train and evangelize good tests versus bad tests at each testing level
Drive best in class QA strategies
Our customers need to love what we do for them
Work across disciplines and with other Principal Engineers to evangelize for the needs of the Quality Automation discipline
Knowledge transfer, training, mentoring of QA practices across the engineering org
Skills
Extensive and applied knowledge across a range of automated testing tools and frameworks e.g. Junit, Jest, Mocha, Playwright, Appium, WebDriver.IO, Selenium, JMeter, Chrome Lighthouse, BrowserStack etc)
An advocate and enabler of strong quality controls (unit, integration, acceptance testing frameworks and methodologies) using industry leading tooling (Junit, SonarCloud, Jmeter, Webdriver.io etc)
Applied Knowledge of SAP offerings (S/4, Commerce Cloud (Hybris), etc)
An understanding of a range of programming languages and associated frameworks e.g. Java, JavaScript, Typescript, HTML, CSS, SpringBoot, ReactJS, NextJS, Tailwind SS etc
Expert level knowledge of testing strategy, test case definition, test planning and execution including test case tracking tools like Zephyr
Ability to distill, author and drive test automation strategies using a number of best-in-class platforms and frameworks to drive down the feedback loop and increase quality reporting and control gates
Proven Experience of CI/CD processes and building quality controls into each step of the SDLC - a "shift left" evangelist A driver of ITSM (ITIL v4) controls and processes to drive greater rigor into our change, knowledge, incident, problem and operational processes
Containerization technologies: Docker/ContainerD, Kubernetes (K8S, K3S), container registries and artifact tools (e.g. Artifactory, GCR, ACR, ECR) Understanding of REST, GraphQL and event-driven architecture principles and best practices and tooling (e.g. Pub/Sub, Kafka etc)
Ability to understand and empathize with our customers, to drive testing strategies aligned to their needs/purposes/concerns
Inherent drive to move beyond functional testing into non-functional areas to ensure solution appropriateness and ability to meet desired outcomes across a number of critical dimensions and areas of concern
Knowledge of diagramming tools and methodologies (e.g. Miro, Diagrams.net, Figjam, Mermaid.JS etc)
Strong communication and presentation skills
Educated to Degree level in Computer Science or equivalent
5+ years of relevant industry experience