Role: Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer
Location: Spain
Role Type: Permanent
Skills: Selenium, Appium, Jenkins, GitLab & CI/CD pipelines.
Working model: occassional assitance in Madrid.
Fluent Spanish & English Speaker
Must be based in Spain
The purpose of this role is to design, develop, and implement automated solutions for testing and deploying software. Automation engineers are responsible for creating scripts and tools that automate repetitive and manual tasks in the software development lifecycle, such as testing software applications, monitoring performance, and deploying updates. By automating these tasks, automation engineers help increase efficiency, improve software quality, and reduce the potential for human error.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES / ROLE
• Developing automated test scripts and frameworks to validate software functionality, performance, and reliability, using tools such as Selenium, Appium.
• Collaborating with QA Engineers and developers to define test strategies, identify test scenarios and prioritise automation efforts based on risks and impact.
• Integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing an ensure early detection of defects, using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI.
• Running automated tests, analysing test results, and generating test reports to provide visibility into the quality of software releases and identify areas for improvement.
• Configuring and maintaining test environments, including test data servers, and infrastructure to support automated testing activities and ensure consistency and reliability of test executions.
• Automating performance testing activities, stress testing and scalability testing to evaluate system performance under various conditions and identify performance bottlenecks.
• Automating security testing activities, such as vulnerability scanning, penetration testing.
• Collaborating with development teams, QA teams and other stakeholders to align automation efforts with project goals and priorities and effectively communicating automation results and insights.
• Providing training and guidance to team members on test automation tools and best practices.
MANDATORY SKILLS
• Awareness of computer programming and software development, programming skills in languages such as Java and SQL.
• Understands software applications with an ability to produce viable solutions to a problem.
• Broad understanding of the concepts and principles of system platforms.
• Knowledge of troubleshooting and testing various solutions
• Data management skills
• Ability to work under pressure and deliver results within deadlines.
• Job requires a good knowledge and comprehensive understanding of the range of processes, procedures, and systems to be used in carrying out assigned tasks and a basic understanding of the underlying concepts and principles upon which the job is based.
• Actively demonstrates cross team collaboration, sharing learning and best practices in order to contribute to overall team effectiveness.
• Good interpersonal skills - persuades and influences others, using a range of approaches, to achieve deliverables.
• Requires clear verbal communication skills and common courtesy.
• Good oral and written communication skills.
YEARS OF EXPERIENCE
+5 years