Builder.ai - Senior Test Engineer - Automation Testing (5-7 yrs)

About the job :

About Us :

We're on a mission to make app building so easy everyone can do it - regardless of their background, tech knowledge or budget. We've already helped thousands of entrepreneurs, small businesses and even global brands, like the BBC, Makro and Pepsi achieve their software goals and we've only just started.

Builder.ai was voted as one of 2023's 'Most Innovative Companies in AI' by Fast Company, and won Europas 2022 'Scaleup of the Year'. Our team has grown to over 800 people across the world and our recent announcement of $250m Series D funding (and partnership with Microsoft) means there's never been a more exciting time to become a Builder.

Life at Builder :

At Builder.ai we encourage you to experiment! Each role at Builder has unlimited opportunities to learn, progress and challenge the status quo. We want you to help us become even better at supporting our customers and take AI app building to new heights.

Our global team is diverse, collaborative and exceptionally talented. We hire people for their differences but all unite with our shared belief in Builder's HEARTT values : (Heart, Entrepreneurship, Accountability, Respect, Trust and Transparency) and a let's-get-stuff-done attitude.

In return for your skills and commitment, we offer a range of great perks, from hybrid working and a variable annual bonus, to employee stock options, generous paid leave, and trips abroad #WhatWillYouBuild

Why you should join :

At Builder.ai we do things differently - this isn't just any software engineer role. As an SR Test Automation Enginner you will become a pioneer in business transformations, and have a voice at the decision-making table.

As a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive company culture, so we always encourage candidates of any sex, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, age, or disability status to apply to our open roles.

We are more interested in your mindset than your skillset! We want to help you on your career journey, so even if you are not completely sure you meet all the job criteria, but love the sound of the role - get in touch anyway!

Requirements :

We are looking for a technical leader to help us achieve and maintain maximum potential in areas of rapid software delivery, automation, security, and quality.

Responsibilities :

- Work closely with engineering teams to develop and extend automated test coverage

- Be an evangelist for quality, above and beyond the status quo

- Optimize test cases on each level to improve stability and performance

- Develop Automation test strategies; writing test plans, test cases, test tools, executing your plan, and reporting

- Mentor peers on API and UI Automation and advise on issues

- Creates traceability records, from test cases back to requirements

- Work closely with team members to understand automation requirements and provide a strong automation service

- Provides regular quality reports on test progress, anomalies, risks and issues associated with project testing

- Actively participate in agile ceremonies providing the QA perspective and input into every user story and refinement session

- Takes delivery as primary responsibility and must have a can do attitude in Manual testing if need arises

Requirements :

- Minimum 5 years in test automation, ideally with a background in software engineering

- Develop and extend automated tests as part of the development workflow

- Experience in automating tests at Unit, API, UI, non-UI level and improving testing effectiveness

- Experience with Robot Framework

- Practical experience with high level programming languages, in particular Python, Ruby or TypeScript JS

- Experience with executing automation tests on CI/CD as part of the software delivery workflow

- Confident in creating automation frameworks using a modern language (Ruby, Python or TypeScript JS), writing tests for web applications and RESTful Api services in code

- A good understanding of testing RESTful APIs

- Expertise in the end-to-end software development life cycle

- Experience working in a Linux based environment

- Experience with good development practices (repository management tools (git), versioning, clean code, package management)

- Collaborative and team oriented individual

- Ability to investigate, debug and triage difficult problems and independently work towards results

- Ability to triage problems, prioritize accordingly and take corrective actions

- Passion for eliminating repetitive manual processes using automation.

Nice to Have :

- Experience with BDD frameworks (Cucumber/Gherkin/Calabash)

- Experience with GitLab CI

- Experience with Selenium webdriver (Python)

- Experience with RSpec

- Practical experience with Non-Functional testing like Performance and Security tests

- Experience working with mocks and stubs

- Good understanding of database technologies

- Experience working in a Cloud based environment

Benefits :

- Attractive quarterly OKR bonus plan or commission scheme dependant on your role

- Stock options in a $450 million funded Series D scale-up company

- 24 days annual leave + public holidays

- 2 x Builder family days each year

- Time off between Christmas and New Year

- Generous Referral Bonus scheme

- Fully funded Private Medical Insurance

- Free lunch at our state of the art working environment in Gurugram