QA Analyst 5 (Senior QA Automation Engineer​/ Senior SDET

QA Analyst 5 (Senior QA Automation Engineer/ Senior SDET)

Location:

Remote

Duration: 12 months

Position's Contributions to Work Group:

This position will fulfill the role of a full time automation engineer working with several developers across the Value Simulation Team

Roles and responsibilities of this position will be listed in great detail below

Typical task breakdown:

- Review Pull Request code from peers

- Attend a small number of team meetings and stay in touch

- Read, understand and refine requirements for their work items, and sync up with the team

- Test their own work, clean up, and refactor code

- Estimate effort required to complete work items

- Help refine requirements for their work items, sync up with team

- Read and understand technical requirements

- Read and understand business need behind work items

- Iterate on work until it is deemed done by the team

- Write automated tests (UI/API)

Education & Experience

Required:

- Years of experience: 10+

- Degree requirement:
Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering or relevant field required

- Do you accept internships as job experience:
Yes

- Are there past or additional job titles or roles that would provide comparable background to this role: we are open to reviewing past or additional job titles or roles that would provide us the right level of experience we are looking for

Top technical skills:

- API/UI automation (3y, strong)

- Playwright (3y, competent)

- C# or similar (3y, strong)

- HTML, CSS (2y, strong)

Top soft skills:

- Get things done, the right way, stay in touch

- Critical thinking, problem solving, attention to detail

- Positive, "can do" attitude, integrates well into a team

- Diligent, responsible, self-sufficient

- Great communication all round

Additional Technical Skills

- Angular (bonus)

- C# (3y, competent)

- ASP.NET (bonus)

- SQL (2y, competent)

- Azure Cloud (bonus)

- JavaScript (2y, competent)

- Type Script (2y, competent)

- HTML (2y, strong)

- CSS (2y, strong)

- CosmosDB (or any noSQL database + SQL language) (bonus)

- JSON (2y, competent)

- REST API (2y, strong)

- Figma (bonus)

- Git (2y, strong)

- Unit tests (bonus)

- UI automation using Playwright (3y, strong)

- Mobile automation (1y, competent)

- API automation (3y, strong)

- Visual testing (1y, competent)

- Manual testing (2y, strong)

- Programming / scripting (3y, strong)

- CI pipelines. Azure Dev Ops Pipelines YAML (which we use), or others (Git Hub Actions, Jenkins, etc) (2y, strong)

- Powershell (bonus)

- Windows (FYI)

- Test data management (2y, strong)

Soft Skills

- Habitually writes clean code: thoughtful naming, separation of concerns, documentation

- Carefully handles complex logic that deals with numerous business requirements

- Has highly developed UI/UX intuitions

- Thinks of many use cases, failure cases, and edge cases

- Suggests improvements to requirements when needed

- Clarifies requirements in a timely manner

- Feels comfortable with an Agile-spirited workflow

- Enjoys problem solving and excels at it

- Has excellent communication skills (verbal and text)

- Provides regular, timely updates on the progress and issues

- Has a positive, "can do" attitude

- Takes pride in ensuring the quality of their work

- Willing to follow existing solutions, processes and procedures, and challenge them when necessary

- Determined to become a power user of the app in the near future

- Continuously engaged with the project for the full amount of agreed hours

- Makes decisions on their own and knows when it's best to consult with the team

- Can organize a productive day for themselves and are mindful of commitments to other team members

- Takes an active part in discussions, and speaks out if something does not feel right

- Completes long stretches of work on their own efficiently and engages the team when necessary

- Handles disagreement in a professional manner

Disqualifiers/Red Flags/Over qualifications:

Don't offer candidates located between GMT+4 to GMT+7 (inclusive) due to team meeting schedule