Reports directly to the Software QA Supervisor and responsible for implementing and developing the test automation infrastructure of the Quality Assurance team, involving test automation development, establishing coding standards and best practices for test automation, analysis and discovery of tools, and maintaining the test automation environment where the test scripts will run on. To ensure sufficient overlap with functional and cross-functional team members globally, this position reports on a flexible night shift schedule (usually 8pm to 4am PHT, adjusted to 8pm to 5am PHT when Daylight Saving Time ends) and is eligible for night differential pay.
What you'll be doing:
Implementation of tools, standards and best practices
- Implements best practices for test automation and shares it with the team.
- Works with the Test architect to design and implement the Automation framework.
- Develops and implements automation test planning and strategy.
Automation environment maintenance
- Maintains and oversees the status of the test environments along its test data.
- Ensures that the test environments are functional and caters to the needs for test automation.
Test Case Automation
- Designs and develops automated test scripts using standard automation tools and frameworks.
- Conducts code reviews on teammates' pull requests.
- Maintains and updates automated test scripts.
- Plans automated suites to support project teams during regression testing.
Software Quality Assurance Exercise
- Collaborates with teammates to establish internal processes and best practices for Software Quality Assurance.
- Proposes and implements process improvements that could benefit not just the QA team, but the project team as well.
- Allocates work, estimation, along with script development, within the automation team.
- Stays up-to-date with the new testing tools and test strategies.
Cross-Functional Agile Collaboration
- Participates in agile ceremonies like scrum meetings, sprint planning, project retrospectives and provide personal input and feedback.
- Attends production or live deployments and monitors deployment status after performing sanity testing.
- Creates a recording of user documentation of configurable components or any related functionalities for business users or as needed.
- Collaborates remotely with cross-functional teams in the United States, Philippines, and India, including developers, product managers, and manual test engineers, to ensure the delivery of high-quality software.
- Collaborates with the development team to integrate automated tests into the continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline.
Software Test Life Cycle Management
- Executes test cases and/or scripts, including thorough regression tests, white or black box testing of new and existing functionalities, and manual execution of end-to-end scenarios.
- Assesses scope of testing and create test suites in Zephyr for JIRA.
- Reviews and collates test cycle metrics, including test progress, test results, defects found, overall testing status and potential risks, and reports to project stakeholders.
- Investigates and debugs test failures, provides detailed reports and collaborates with the development team to resolve issues promptly.
Other Duties and Responsibilities
- Performs other duties that maybe assigned from time to time.
What you bring to the table:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum of four (4) to six (6) years of experience as a Test Automation Engineer or in a similar role.
- Must have experience in test automation tools such as Selenium, Playwright, TestComplete, JUnit, TestNG, REST Assured, Cucumber, etc.
- Must have a solid understanding of software testing principles, methodologies, and best practices, and be accustomed to Agile Development.
- Must be familiar with CI/CD concepts and tools and performance testing and security testing.
- Must be able to work a flexible night shift schedule (typically 8pm-4am PHT, adjusting to 8pm-5am PHT after Daylight Saving Time ends).
