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Slovakia Remote QA

Senior Automation QA Engineer

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Description

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

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. On behalf of Ciklum, we are looking for a Senior QA Engineer to join our remote team on a full-time basis. Ciklum is building a team to work on a project for one of the global retailers which primary goal to improve and automate the customer’s business processes, reduce time and efforts, required for various operations. Quality Engineering Center of Excellence is an international award-winning Quality Engineering department that has rapidly evolved over the past 7 years to become a mature Quality Engineering service provider with 500+ professionals working in 7 main directions: QA Consulting and Management, DevOps, Manual, Automation, Support, Performance, Cyber Security.
Our main principles are:

  • People are over processes and hierarchy
  • Flat and open collaboration/communication increases creativity and brings more value to business
  • Investing in people and innovations ensures your future
  • Reuse and share your experience – Develop best practices, publicize and follow them

Quality Engineering is an optimal environment for your professional involvement and growth.

Responsibilities

  • Architect test automation framework from scratch
  • Develop automated functional API/Service level tests using Java and SoapUI
  • Create and execute performance tests using Gatling and JMeter
  • 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 backend/API testing
  • Solid skills in Java programming patterns and principles
  • Excellent knowledge of different testing methods, techniques, types and methodologies
  • Hands on experience with SoapUI, Gatling, JMeter
  • Experience in creation of test documentation (test strategy, test plans, test reports, etc.)
  • Experience in creation of automation frameworks from scratch on Azure cloud
  • Previous experience in functional and performance testing of Data Management systems build on Azure
  • Good Knowledge of SQL and no-SQL DBs (PostgreSQL, mongo, redis etc.)
  • Experience with continuous integration processes and tools, CI/CD pipelines
  • Good knowledge of Azure DevOps services
  • Experience of working in an Agile Scrum/Kanban development environment
  • Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Computer science or relevant
  • Good English skills – Upper-Intermediate and above

Desirable

  • Knowledge of other programming languages would be a great plus
  • Integration of GDPR principles in automated testing
  • Hand-on experience with Docker
  • Experience with testing message brokers/queues: SQS, SNS, Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc

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 Mental Health programs and meal allowance. Our comfortable office in the center of Bratislava will ensure a cozy working space. We also offer 5 weeks of vacation and 2 sick days annually to recharge
  • Development as a mindset: feel free to participate in building an IT community in your country within our Nalejvárna meetups. Regular annual performance reviews with your manager will help you keep the right growth focus
  • Tailored education path: boost your skills and knowledge with our regular internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops) and external (our formats of knowledge sharing – global Speaker’s Corner talks)
  • Growth environment: share your experience and level up your expertise with a community of skilled professionals, locally and globally. The referral program will reward you with bonuses for successful recommendations of skilled professionals
  • Flexibility: Own your schedule – you are the one to decide when to start your working day. Just don’t miss your regular team stand-up
  • Opportunities: we value our specialists and always find the best options for them. We offer more than 100 projects you can rotate between: we work with top-notch technologies for international clients (Sweden, Switzerland, Germany, Austria etc.) in various domains (banking, health care, e-commerce, construction, logistics)
  • 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, including weekly breakfasts

The salary starts from 2500 Eur gross. The final salary depends on the previous experience and professional knowledge of the candidate.

About us:

Join a well-established company and a strong team of professionals.
Seize the perks of global opportunities, local approach and start-up spirit.
Boost your skills with modern stacks and industry-leading clients!
Enjoy what you do, do what you enjoy!

Want to learn more about us?
Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, stop by one of our IT meetups Nalejvárna or listen to podcast PodVocasem.

Be bold, not bored!

Experiences of tomorrow. Engineered together

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We would love to get to know you! Submit your application. Can’t wait to see you at Ciklum.

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