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 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)
• TypeScript (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 DevOps Pipelines YAML (which we use), or others (GitHub 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/Overqualifications:

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