Senior Automation Engineer

Responsibilities

• Create and ensure the software quality during the whole software development lifecycle
• Prepare checklists and test cases for new feature
• Design performance/load test scenarios and prepare necessary data
• Author test scripts and analyze performance issues
• You will design, develop and execute performance and load tests on backend services
• Identify performance bottlenecks and suggest improvements, using the normal APM, log, monitoring tools
• Contribute to end-to-end workflows automation (UI)
• Contribute to the development of QA automation framework for our web and micro-services platform
• Evaluate (commercial, open-source or proprietary) testing tools and test frameworks which can be used within a project
• Collaborate with the extended team of software engineers, product designers and quality assurance engineers across worldwide teams
• Communicate effectively and responsibly in an Agile environment
• Document test results and provide reports on product performance, quality, and stability

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s / Master’s Degree (in Computer Science or other engineering discipline.)
• Experience a senior QA engineer role, 4 to 8 years software QA automation experience
• Experience in Restful API is mandatory
• Expertise in scripted performance and load testing
• Proficiency in Python or Node.js
• Knowledge of QA methodologies and tools
• Familiarity with service monitoring and log tools such as New Relic, Splunk, DataDog, Grafana, etc
• Experience approaching a problem from different angles, analyzing pros and cons of different solutions
• With excellent self-learning skills
• Excellent English reading, writing, and speaking skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Locust.io and Blazemeter is a big plus
• Knowledge of AWS Cloud
• Knowledge of Redis and PostgreSQL
• Knowledge of tools like Jenkins, Git, docker, k8s and so on
• Hands-on experience building automated test suites for testing API endpoints and micro-service