Automation/ QA Engineer

Dublin - Automation Engineer

Responsibilities

  • Work on multiple phases of a project and/or multiple small projects of moderate scope and sometimes complex assignments
  • Take responsibility for a technical area and works on results evaluation, problem resolution and planning
  • Selects appropriate standards, methods, tools and applications for project use
  • Apply data analysis and data modelling techniques to modify or maintain a data structure and its associated components (entity descriptions, relationship descriptions, attribute definitions)
  • Create and executes basic non-functional test scripts following a given set of guidelines and sets up test environments, data and monitors
  • Design, code, test and document simple programs or scripts and assists in the implementation of software which forms part of a properly engineered system
  • Co-ordinate the information gathering and reporting process, conduct research to define problems and prepare responses to anticipated questions
  • Accurately identify project risks and report effectively to relevant stakeholders. Manage issues, risks, actions, dependencies, and defects to the success of the project
  • Create traceability records, from test cases back to requirements
  • Report on system quality and collects metrics on test cases
  • Produce test scripts, materials and regression test packs to test new and amended software or services
  • Maintain the status of project and provides guidance to the work of junior team members, works across teams to achieve group goals

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience
  • ISTQB Foundation

Skills

  • Excellent client-facing skills
  • Team work and emotional intelligence
  • Good self-management – continuous performance is both an objective and a mind-set
  • Has an innovative approach – a bold thinker and doer, matching creativity with vigilance
  • High value on openness and transparency
  • Excellent communication and presentations skills

Experience

  • Intermediate theoretical knowledge in quality engineering methodologies and has awareness of opportunities provided by new and emerging technologies and products.
  • Has good applications/technology knowledge, building on specialist domain knowledge and has practical experience of engineering tools and platforms required to deliver.
  • Experience and knowledge in any of the performance testing, data and test automation tools such as HP Performance Centre/LoadRunner, HP UFT /QTP, HP Service Test, Service Virtualize, SoapUI, CA LISA, CA GridTools Data Maker/ DataManager, JMeter, Neoload, Selenium, IBM Rational Integration Tester, Rational Robot, Borland SilkTest, TOSCA, Atlassian Jira, Jenkins, Selenium, Cucumber, Gherkin etc.
  • Programming knowledge (ideally VB, Java, C#) and technical expertise in script languages (Shell, Perl, etc.).Good knowledge on Cloud concepts and virtualisation

Benefits

  • Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and ours peers through good times and challenges
  • We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
  • Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
  • Competitive company benefits such as medical and dental insurance, pension, life assurance, employee wellbeing programme, sports and social events, birthday hampers and much more!
  • Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo