Lead Automation QA Engineer

(#4045)

N-iX is looking for a Lead Automation QA Engineer to join our team.

Our client handles a desktop & web-based graphical application that allows you to create beautiful timelines, Gantt charts, and roadmaps in your browser and export them as PowerPoint slides 

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement robust validation, linting, and QA workflows to ensure the syntactic correctness, logic integrity, and coverage quality of detection rules before they are delivered to customer systems

• Assist the development team in creating and managing data required for testing and validating user stories and bugs

• Review and analyze automated test cases and results to identify gaps and areas for improvement

• Perform manual exploratory testing of front-end functionality after deployments in the production environment

• Develop and implement non-functional testing strategies, such as performance and security testing, with the development team

• Document and update QA processes, test plans, and product quality strategies to ensure alignment across the team

• Review business requirements to write test cases and test plans Identify and document all levels of testing including functional, integration, user acceptance and exploratory

• Build and execute automated test cases

Requirements:

• 5+ years of professional experience in software testing with a strong focus on test automation

• Experience in C# or C based language

• Hands-on experience building and maintaining automation frameworks, with the ability to independently utilize and extend existing frameworks

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions) and test integration into release workflows

• Strong understanding of QA methodologies, tools, and processes

• Strong understanding of maintainable test automation architecture

• Hands on experience on desktop automation

• Experience in VSTO

• Proficiency in creating test cases in BDD/TDD (Behavior-Driven Development/Test-Driven Development) language (e.g., Gherkin)

• Experience with test automation tools and frameworks for integration and E2E testing (both back-end and front-end)

• Knowledge of non-functional testing strategies (e.g., performance, security)

• Familiarity with version control systems (e.g., Git) and CI/CD pipelines

• Strong ability to analyze and debug issues in collaboration with development teams

• Ability to identify root causes of defects and implement preventative measures

• Strong communication skills to support PO in defining acceptance criteria for user stories

• Experience with manual exploratory testing for scenarios not covered by automation

• Knowledge of smoke/sanity testing processes in production environments

• Ability to monitor quality metrics and regression pipeline results

• Proficiency in reporting automated test statuses and incidents to the team

• Skilled in maintaining documentation around quality assurance processes and lead quality for the product

• Ability to align testing strategy with the team’s delivery goals

• Upper-Intermediate English level

We offer:

• Flexible working format - remote, office-based or flexible

• A competitive salary and good compensation package

• Personalized career growth

• Professional development tools (mentorship program, tech talks and trainings, centers of excellence, and more)

• Active tech communities with regular knowledge sharing

• Education reimbursement

• Memorable anniversary presents

• Corporate events and team buildings

• Other location-specific benefits