ITContracting are currently seeking applicants for a QA Automation Engineer. This is a permanent position based with our client in Waterford, with flexible remote work options also available.
Are you looking for a unique challenge working in virtual & augmented reality with a bleeding-edge technology company? Then read on.
Due to continued growth and success, we are looking for a competent QA Automation Engineer with 2+ years of industry experience to join our dedicated QA Team in Waterford. This talented individual must have a vision and drive and must not be afraid to back big ideas.
This is an opportunity to build your career with our highly collaborative and engaging team as part of a fast-growing & creative company. The digital world is changing, let’s shape it together.
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.
- Technically capable – scripting will be required.
- Experience with Gherkin, Cypress, Git and Gatling.
- 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.
The Role:
- Proactively improves processes to help deliver a better product.
- Creates and maintains standard documents to be used by the QA team.
- Provide accurate 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 API tests.
- Manually test features that cannot be automated
- Work with project managers 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.
- Implement automated API tests as per automation standards.
Candidates must be eligible to work full time and long term in Ireland or currently hold a Stamp 4 Visa to apply.
If you are interested in applying for this role, please do so via the relevant link. If you would like to discuss this role in confidence, please contact Nicole Pasquetti in itContracting directly.
- Excellent understanding of test engineering best practices, methodologies and processes.
- 2+ years API test experience
- Experience with programming languages (For example JavaScript, Node.js, C#, PHP, etc.)
- Experience testing Web APIs.
- Experience with source control systems such as Git.
- Experience using JIRA (or other defect tracking tools).
- Experience of working in an Agile SCRUM development environment.
