Test Automation Engineer

Ops Proficient Engineer

Key tasks

Improving the way we test

○ Challenge the status quo

Defining and improving our test vision, test strategy and standards &

guidelines

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○ Experimenting with new tools to improve our testing capabilities

○ Support and coaching of Ops Engineers in all squads to improve testing

Support and coaching the product owners and business analysts to

improve the way of working, with quality in mind

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Implementing and enforcing quality controls

Participate in user story refinement, ask all the “but what if” questions,

propagate example mapping and ensure adequate acceptance criteria

are defined (functional as well as non-functional)

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○ Enforcing compliance with Definition of Read and Definition of Done

○ Full test automation of functional tests and regression tests

○ Manual testing when and where required

○ Setting up and executing performance tests

○ Supporting Disaster Recovery Tests and Security Penetration Testing

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Monitoring the health of our application, using tools like

○ Kibana and Grafana

○ Internal Pega monitoring (AES)

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Ensuring compliancy

○ Keep our application compliance with IT risk policies

○ Maintain access matrix

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Supporting the application through ITIL processes, among which

○ Incident, Problem and Change Management

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Managing and improving the Deployment Pipeline and embedding quality controls as part

of it

What we expect from you

Education

○ Bachelor’s degree in engineering

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Testing skills

○ Defining and applying test standards & guidelines

Defining test vision and test strategy

Using Test Automation Frameworks for defining and running automated

tests

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Experience with (Acceptance) Test Driven Development and ability to

promote it

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Experience with integrating automated tests within build & deployment

pipeline (CD/CI)

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Experience with setting up automated performance tests (measuring

performance against benchmark and different types of load)

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Coaching skills

Mentoring and training other Ops Engineers in the field of testing and

automation

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○ Facilitation skills

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Technology, tools and process knowledge

○ Cucumber, Selenium

○ ITIL knowledge (Incident, Problem and Change Management)

○ Azure DevOps

○ Agile team experience with SCRUM or Kanban or XP

○ Java knowledge

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Mindset & soft skills

○ Automation mindset & waste buster

Proactive attitude, always on the look-out for improving your and our way

of working

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○ Diplomacy and good communication skills

Not shy to express and defend his/her opinion in front of a crowd (even if

it is not the popular opinion)

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○ Analysis capabilities and testing abilities