This role requires working as a senior team member with high technical skills in a Scrum team to design, create, maintain and execute quality activities for one of Charles River’s products. Provide support and assistance to customers and other teams within Charles River.
The candidate should be a sharp automation engineer with strong problem-solving skills and a solid software testing foundation. This role requires a talented, detail oriented, individual who is passionate about quality with the ability to grasp tough issues quickly and deliver well engineered, high-quality solutions.
Were looking for a QA Automation engineer to help us deliver quality software artifacts that ensure high-quality software development. We expect the ability to write automated tests across multiple technologies and application layers. In addition, this candidate is responsible for maintaining and expanding the labs which host both automated and manual testing as well as conducting staging and certification of the product media during the ship-stage of a release.
responsibilities :
Plan, design, deliver, debug and execute test automation solutions.
Work closely with the scrum master, product owner, architect, business analysts, product specialists, developers and other project team members to assist in carrying out the software quality responsibilities of the Scrum team
Create comprehensive test automation scripts from business requirements and functional specifications documents for product features of moderate complexity
Execute manual and automated functional, integration, regression, and performance tests
Maintain automated and manual test script libraries for functional, integration, regression, and performance testing
Align with the Software Development Life Cycle practices, comply with Information Security and Data Governance practices
Interpret results of automation tests and document software defects in issue tracking system; proactively communicate issues with developers and other project team members
Provide testing guidance by identifying opportunities for improvement in the Scrum team’s QA methodology, innovate by researching and recommending new approaches to automation of testing, including use of Artificial Intelligence
Adhere to a testing schedule to ensure efficient and effective product delivery
Actively participate in the agile software development process by adhering to the CRD Scrum methodology including attending all daily standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives
Participate in “testathon” activities as required by releases
Mentoring engineers in the team. Guide junior staff in proper creation of automated test scripts.
requirements-expected :
B.S. degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics or other technical course of study or Business with an MIS background. MS degree strongly preferred.
6 - 9 years of experience in software engineering. Being an expert in the field of automated testing (at least in one area: desktop application, web application, API)
Demonstrated experience implementing and executing automation test scripts against web, native/desktop applications, APIs and batch applications.
Very strong programming skills in one of modern languages (preferred C#)
Fluent English
offered :
Permanent contract from day one
Additional holidays (Birthday Day Off, 3rd and 5th year anniversary Day Off and others)
Gold medical package for employees and their families (partner and children)
Premium life insurance package and private pension plan
Cafeteria system
Wide range of soft skills training, technical workshops, language classes and development programs
Opportunities to volunteer your time to company-driven initiatives, employee networks or organizations of your choice
Variety of well-being programs
Possibility of work in rapidly growing global organization on interesting projects
benefits :
private medical care
sharing the costs of foreign language classes
sharing the costs of professional training & courses
