QA Automation Engineer at Safeguard Global

• You will be responsible for defining and driving innovative automated testing strategies and toolsets into our overall development processes that support and enhance the current Quality Assurance processes within Safeguard Global.   

How you will make a difference: 

• Work as part of cross functional, passionate agile project teams to ensure quality is driven into the heart of the development process from requirements definition through to delivery  
• Designing, developing and supporting frameworks for our test infrastructure and providing automation expertise to our development teams  
• Contributing toward predictable delivery of quality releases  
• Research, recommend and implement tools as needed with the goal of increasing automation  
• Coach team members on automation  
• Proactively bringing issues and problems to the attention of the team; proposing and implementing innovative solutions to solve them  
• Be meticulous about documentation  
• Use appropriate measures and KPIs to validate and report on software quality  
• Work closely with the software engineering team, Product Management and Technical Operations as well as business users and Senior Management, as required  
• Be a creative thinker who can quickly identify and test for functional ‘edge cases’ outside of expected functionality workflow  
• Have the drive to become an expert in:  
• - Performance and scalability testing  
• - Security penetration testing 

What will give you an advantage: 

• Strong background of working in tooling or QA automation  
• Thorough understanding of automated QA processes in agile development environments  
• Strong communication skills 
• Experience in writing, executing and monitoring automated test suites using a variety of technologies including, but not limited to Webdriver, Cypress, Browserstack, Saucelabs, Grid and TestRail  
• Coding experience in JavaScript and REST API testing  
• Comfortable in working with version control tools 
• Proficient with bug tracking and test management toolsets to support development processes  
• Proficient working with relational databases such as SQL Server, DB2 & PostgreSQL  
• Knowledge of Unix/Linux OS, shell scripting or Expect scripting  
• Building test infrastructures using containerization technologies  
• Understanding of NoSQL database technologies such as MongoDB or DynamoDB  
• CTFL, ISTQB, CSQA or CSTE certified