QA Automation Engineer

Job Description

When you join Verizon

Verizon is a leading provider of technology, communications, information and entertainment products, transforming the way we connect across the globe. We’re a diverse network of people driven by our ambition and united in our shared purpose to shape a better future. Here, we have the ability to learn and grow at the speed of technology, and the space to create within every role. Together, we are moving the world forward – and you can too. Dream it. Build it. Do it here.

What you’ll be doing...

Verizon Connect is guiding a connected world on the go by automating, optimizing and revolutionizing the way people, vehicles and things move through the world. Our full suite of industry-defining solutions and services put innovation, automation and connected data to work for customers and help them be safer, more efficient and more productive. With more than 3,500 dedicated employees in 15 countries, we deliver leading mobile technology platforms and solutions.

As a SAAS leader, we know our talent is the most important component of our success. We hire top talent and empower them to do their best work. As a division of Verizon, we combine the fun and excitement of a startup environment with the resources, operational excellence, and brand recognition of an established tech giant.

Working at our Dublin office, you will be part of a cross-functional engineering team delivering key features for our award-winning SAAS offering, Reveal. As a QA engineer you will be working directly with UX, BA and full stack engineers to deliver coded automated tests for browser and mobile based applications in a CI/CD environment, following Kanban methodologies.

Responsibilities:

• Coded automation testing.
• Test case development based on functional and technical requirements.
• Set up and monitoring of automation test suites as part of CI/CD pipeline.
• Working directly with the wider teams to maintain and enhance our test automation frameworks.
• Maintaining bug backlogs - triaging and prioritizing with stakeholders.
• Advocate for QA and defining/maintaining quality standards within your team.

What we’re looking for...

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or relevant work experience
• Three or more years of experience in software development.
• Experience in agile/lean methodologies and processes - ideally Kanban or scrum.
• Experience with systems analysis and design, and working with senior engineers and architects.
• Experience working in enterprise project and team environments with product, application support and operations teams.
• Three or more years of experience in coded test automation using C#.
• Experience in testing fundamentals - test case generation, smoke testing, regression etc.
• Experience using Selenium Web Driver 2/3 and Visual Studio to write coded automation tests.
• Cross browser testing experience.
• Experience with test case management tools such as Test Rail.
• Experience of testing RESTful API architectures through code-based testing.
• Experience in Object Oriented/SOLID Design principles and practices.
• Mobile automation test tools experience e.g. Appium.
• Experience managing code with source control applications e.g GIT or SVN.

Even better if you have:

• A degree.
• Quality and results focused with experience in project delivery - individually or as part of a team and ideally in a CI/CD environment.
• Good communication skills both written and oral.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Experience testing Microservices or Service Oriented Architectures.
• Demonstrated performance testing experience (JUnit, Loadrunner or other tools)
• Knowledge of Test Driven Development and Domain Driven Design.
• Proficiency in SQL for data set up and verification.
• Ability to read and understand production code as part of test case development.
• Experiencewithdefect/requirements management tools e.g. JIRA.