Test Automation Engineer (Back-end)

About project

Currently, for our client, an American bank, we are looking for experienced Test Automation Engineers (Back-end)  who will join a greenfield digital/mobile banking project created in the spirit of agile methodologies (Spotify Model)

This is a hands-on test automation engineer in test role that can help our teams deliver enhanced quality by ensuring the delivery of effective and efficient test automation within green-field initiatives

Location: 100% remote

Tasks

• Developing and executing test strategies and test plans
• Automating tests and building sufficient and meaningful test coverage
• Developing from scratch or contributing to existing testing frameworks and test infrastructure
• Integrating automated tests with CI/CD pipelines
• Championing a quality and test mindset across the unit, integration, functional, non-functional testing
• Developing metrics and trend analysis for testing activities
• Triaging, analysing , and debugging issues and driving issues resolution with the team
• Initiating and completing test escape and root cause analysis, testing lessons learned
• Recommending test process improvements and defect prevention actions
• Working with teams in multiple locations in different time zones, review code PRs from the wider team

Requirements

• Strong programming skills in Java  (additional experience in Javascript/ Typescript and/or Kotlin is a bonus)
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 4 years of recent hands-on professional experience (actively coding) working as a software developer in test.
• Previous experience in application development is desirable
• Experience building testing frameworks, tools, and automation
• Test automation using BDD practices using supporting test automation frameworks
• Back-end test automation experience using REST Assured, HTTP clients, libraries for working with JSON files, and other tools relevant for test automation of APIs
• Familiar with test automation frameworks: Webdriver, Webdriver iO, Playwright, Selenium, Cypress
• Mobile test automation experience using tools such as Cucumber, Appium, and Detox is desirable, but not essential
• Understanding of distributed systems and experience working with cloud technologies (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure) are desirable.
• Understanding of relational and no-SQL databases.
• Experience with Spring, Docker, and Kubernetes is desirable
• Proven experience in all aspects of functional, integration, and regression testing
• Clean coding and adherence to the software engineering best practices (DRY, SOLID, etc.) with a focus on scalable and maintainable test execution infrastructure
• Familiarity with the Atlassian toolset
• Knowledge and experience working in an Agile environment.