Senior QA Automation Engineer

About HireRight

HireRight Technology is an IT department supporting HireRight, the premier global background screening provider. Combining in-house talent, personalized services, and proprietary technology, we ensure the best candidate experience possible. Our software serves hundreds of thousands of users daily, the platform processes 100+ business events per second. The company is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, and we are currently in the process of building our Katowice based Tech Hub. You will have the opportunity to cooperate closely in international environment with our IT department in Tallinn as well as other locations across the globe.

Position overview

The Senior Software Development Engineer in Test Automation is a position that combines skills in design; development; testing and quality assurance. Working as a senior software development engineer in test require computer science skills, communication skills and time management.

The Senior Software Development Engineer in Test is a computer industry professional who can design, build and configure test automation infrastructure, produce and assess programming code to make automated testing programs, lead peer reviews, make code reviews, assess the code and make changes as needed to enhance the end-user experience.

The successful candidate will bring expertise in modern testing frameworks, a strong background in software development, and a passion for quality assurance. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure our products meet high standards of reliability, performance, and scalability.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable, and reusable automation tests.
• Create, enhance, and execute automated tests for functional, regression, performance, and load testing.
• Monitor and maintain automated testing.
• Ensure that coding standards and best practices are being met.
• Identify and troubleshoot issues with the automated tests.
• Integrate automated test suites into continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Improve existing testing automation or design more efficient testing.
• Ensure automation coverage for new and existing features.
• Collaborate with software developers, QA engineers, product owners, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and define testing strategies.
• Act as a subject matter expert in application functionality
• Provide technical leadership and mentor other Test Automation Engineers

Qualifications

Education: 

• A Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, computer science or related engineering field, or equivalent work
• ISTQB or similar certification.

Experience:

• 5+ years of experience in Development/SQA role
• Minimum 3 years of experience with web service testing and web service testing tools
• Experience with Selenium-like automation testing frameworks and automation testing of Web-applications.
• Experience with QA processes and methodologies (automated and manual test processes, black/white box testing, load and performance testing, test case design, scripting and execution, automated test tools)
• Experience with functional testing of multi-tier Web applications.
• Experience working with QA tools and techniques, bug tracking systems, test design and execution.
• Knowledge of programming languages (Java, JavaScript).
• Comprehensive SQL, XML and JSON

What do we offer on contract of employment:

HireRight offers an employment contract with a competitive salary and comprehensive package of benefits including:

• Annual Bonus Plan
• Private Medical Care
• Group Life Insurance
• MyBenefit Cafeteria platform
• Lunch Vouchers
• Holiday Allowance
• Paid Lunch Break (30 minutes)
• Tax-deductible costs
• Hybrid work (flexibility to work 2 days/week from home)