Senior Test Automation Engineer – (Remote within EU)

Exactest is currently seeking a Senior QA Test Automation Engineer to join our leading Client on a permanent basis. Reporting to the QA Manager, our client has an exciting opportunity to join their team to deliver quality software for next generation software products.

You will have minimum 5 years Software Test Automation experience in a fast paced start-up company. This is an exciting and creative tech company, with a global presence working in a niche technology platform sector.

The Role

• Provides mentoring to other QA team members on the area of responsibility.
• Proactively improves processes to help deliver a better product.
• Investigates new software tools & test frameworks that can be used by the QA team.
• Creates and maintains standard documents to be used by the QA team.
• Provide estimates for workload.
• Plan, design, implement & execute verification and validation tests and report bugs in a clear and concise manner.
• Provide regression tests when functional changes are done.
• Design and develop automated Unity test framework.
• Create automated unity test sets.
• Manually test features that cannot be automated.
• Work with project manager and/or technical leads to help define test requirements.
• Collaborate with the team in an Agile Environment to help create great features.
• Work to the best of your ability to meet project milestone dates.
• Provide solutions to design and implement automated unity tests.

Experience

You should possess the following skills and experience and be able to demonstrate/substantiate them at interview:

• Excellent understanding of test engineering best practices, methodologies, and processes.
• Experience with programming languages (For example JavaScript, Node.js or C# preferred.)
• Experience testing using Nunit or something similar.
• Experience with Unity Test Framework or similar.
• Experience with Continuous Integration using Jenkins (or similar tools).
• Experience with source control systems such as Git.
• Good understanding of relational database structure and design. Comfortable creating SQL queries.
• Experience using JIRA (or other defect tracking tools).
• Experience of working in an Agile SCRUM development environment.
• MUST HAVE – Experience with Unity.
• Bachelor’s degree or College Diploma in a computer science-related course.
• ISTQB Foundation Level certification or similar.

The Person

• An ability to learn and adapt to new environments.

• Passion for quality and attention to detail.

• A self-Motivated individual always looking to continue their quest for knowledge.

• Somebody with a keen interest in software quality and software testing.

• Good problem-solving skills.

• Experience working as part of a scrum team.

• Experience working with both bug tracking and test management tools.

• Process-driven.

• Excellent Teamwork ethic with the ability to work collaboratively with others (technical and non-technical).

• Flexible and adaptable, with the ability to align to changing priorities.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.

• Self-motivated and self-directed so can work autonomously, prioritizing work in accordance with leads direction.

We offer

• Remote working from home, occasional onsite Waterford City, Ireland
• €50k to €60k p/a DOE
• Permanent Full-Time
• Generous Holidays
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