Senior/Lead Test Automation Engineer | English Speaker

Works autonomously and acts as a senior providing professional advice, managing and/or coordinating a technical area. Leads technical areas within Quality Engineering projects using available frameworks and tools and establishing project plans with on-time and on-budget project goals.

• Leads multiple phases of technical areas within a project and/or multiple small projects of moderate scope and sometimes complex assignments. Responsible for a certain area and conditions.
• Assures the project meets quality standards by providing technical guidance in planning, designing, executing testing, and developing procedures relating to product quality.
• Applies data analysis, data modelling, and quality engineering techniques, based upon a detailed understanding of business processes, to establish and maintain data structures and associated components (entity descriptions, relationship descriptions, attribute definitions).
• Leads the creation of test cases using own in-depth technical analysis of non-functional specifications.
• Writes high quality scripts in a chosen tool and builds into a scenario to test defined nonfunctional use cases.
• Accurately identifies project risks and reports effectively to relevant stakeholders.
• Implements robust error handling and clear/consistent reporting functionality, investigating and reporting on hazards and potential risk events within a project or business area.
• Creates traceability records, from test cases back to requirements, reports on system quality and collects metrics on test cases.
• Provides detailed advice regarding the application of technologies.

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• Fluency in English is a MUST
• Flexible to work onsite or from client's site or from home. 
• Flexible to switch weekends and travel if required.
• Unconditional flexibility to perform manual testing if needed
• Flexibility to switch weekends and travel abroad if required
• 5 - 8 years of experience with hands-on corporate experience in software testing
• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Very Good client-facing skills.
• Very Good problem solving skills.

MUST have hands-on experience:

• Experience and mastery of one or more scripting languages (Java/Python/C#/C++/etc.) - (at least 2 languages is highly preferred)
• Experience and Mastery of one open-source automation tool (Selenium/Playwright/Cypress)

General:

• Has achieved trusted advisor status at a senior level with the client.
• Excellent client-facing skills, takes time to establish underlying needs of client beyond those initially expressed.
• Has an innovative approach, develops new approaches to improve or replace existing procedures or systems.
• Excellent communication skills, maintains confidentiality, shares ideas and information, facilitates discussions and transfers knowledge to diverse audiences to achieve collective objectives.

Technical:

• Good applications/technology knowledge, building on specialist domain knowledge with practical experience of engineering/development tools and platforms required to deliver.
• Solid understanding with respect to analysis and design, implementation and system integration, execution as well as results evaluation, problem resolution and planning.
• Experience in designing, coding, testing and correcting scripts from agreed specifications, and subsequent iterations, using agreed standards and tools, to achieve a well-engineered result.
• Experience in implementing robust error handling and clear/consistent reporting functionality.
• Knowledge of relevant testing tools in test automation and performance: HP ALM, Load Runner HP QuicktestProfessional, Tosca, Borland Silk test, Cucumber, Soap UI, Selenium).
• Programming knowledge (ideally VB, Java, C#) and technical expertise in script languages (Shell, Perl, etc.).
• Strong knowledge on Cloud concepts and virtualisation.
• Expertise on SQL database and handling queries.
• Exposure to Test Management tool JIRA.

Management:

• Good people skills, with experience of introducing and building ways in which people can learn from each other. Encourages mentoring and the transfer of knowledge by designing and delivering learning interventions.
• Renowned as an effective coach and sounding board.
• Good self management. Takes on high commitments and works to achieve results. Keeps momentum going over time despite setbacks, showing resilience in the face of challenges and looking for ways to beat previous standards.
• Experience in managing upwards with multiple people, gaining their trust quickly.