Senior Automation QA Engineer

Ciklum is looking for a Senior Automation QA Engineer to join our team full-time in India.

We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.

About the role:

As a Senior Automation QA Engineer, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow. 

Responsibilities

• Architect test automation frameworks from scratch
• Develop automated functional UI tests & API/Service level tests
• Integrate automated scripts into CI/CD process
• Develop, maintain and expand automated testing infrastructure
• Devise and document test frameworks, coding standards, preferred design patterns, and development methodologies
• Ensure code quality with peer reviews to ensure guidelines and standards are followed
• Define Quality Metrics and implement measurements to determine test effectiveness, testing efficiency, and measure the overall quality of the Product as a part of test automation process
• Make conclusion and report about the quality of the product under test
• Collaborate with other members of the QA team to automate the manual test processes
• Manage, analyze and mitigate testing risks
• Onboarding of new team members on the project
• Technical advice for the testing teams

Requirements

• 4+ years of professional experience in QA Automation of Web
• 2 years of experience in backend/API testing
• Excellent knowledge of different testing methods, techniques, types and methodologies
• Experience in creation of test documentation (test strategy, test plans, etc.)
• Experience in creation of automation frameworks from scratch
• Solid skills in Java, programming patterns and principles
• Experience in integrating of test reporting (Allure or similar)
• Deliver quality assured automation scripts using web & API (REST/SOAP) based automation tools (e.g. Selenium, RestAssured)
• Familiarity with any automated test framework preferably Cucumber, BDD etc. and should have contributed to the development/implementation of automation test tools
• Experience with BDD, ATDD, TDD approaches
• Experience with continuous integration processes and tools, CI/CD pipelines
• Good knowledge of AWS/Azure DevOps services
• Experience with message brokers/queues: SQS, SNS, Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc
• Good Knowledge of SQL and no-SQL DBs (PostgreSQL, mongo, redis etc.)
• Hand-on experience with Docker
• Experience of working in an Agile Scrum/Kanban development environment
• Master's or Bachelors degree in Computer science or relevant
• Good English skills – Upper-Intermediate and above

Desirable

• Experience with mobile automation, cloud device farms
• Knowledge of other programming languages would be a great plus
• Integration of GDPR principles in automated testing

Personal skills

• Self-motivated to continually learn and adopt the latest industry innovations and technology
• Self-disciplined and result-oriented, able to work with minimal supervision
• Strong communication and problem solving skills
• Good team player, motivated to solve complex tasks
• Good analytical skills
• Strong attention to details and accuracy

What's in it for you?

• Care: your mental and physical health is our priority. We ensure comprehensive company-paid medical insurance, as well as financial and legal consultation
• Tailored education path: boost your skills and knowledge with our regular internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), Udemy licence, language courses and company-paid certifications
• Growth environment: share your experience and level up your expertise with a community of skilled professionals, locally and globally
• Flexibility: hybrid work mode at Chennai or Pune
• Opportunities: we value our specialists and always find the best options for them. Our Resourcing Team helps change a project if needed to help you grow, excel professionally and fulfil your potential
• Global impact: work on large-scale projects that redefine industries with international and fast-growing clients
• Welcoming environment: feel empowered with a friendly team, open-door policy, informal atmosphere within the company and regular team-building events

About us:

India is a strategic growth market for Ciklum.
Be a part of a big story created right now. Let’s grow our delivery center in India together! Boost your skills and knowledge: create and innovate with like-minded professionals — all of that within a global company with a local spirit and start-up soul. 
Supported by Recognize Partners and expanding globally, we will engineer the experiences of tomorrow!

Be bold, not bored!