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We believe in the power of people. We are a network strategy and technology company that is motivated by making a difference in people’s lives – their productivity, creativity, health and comfort.
We’re looking for a highly motivated, talented and experienced engineer who is passionate about product verification automation activities and is ready to assume a leadership position within the team in addressing future projects. You will certify solutions that provide our customers opportunities to differentiate their service offerings in a very competitive market.
The ideal candidate is a flexible, highly technical problem solver, with interdisciplinary knowledge of software, and test & test automation. You feel at home in a dynamic, multi-disciplined engineering environment, acting as an interface between product design, other Blue Planet test engineering teams, and members of other functional groups (support, documentation, marketing, etc).
- RESPONSIBILITIES
- Engage with various engineering teams, product line managers and product owners to transform concepts and high-level requirements into optimized test coverage and enhanced customer experience.
- Automate and maintain all manually devised and executed test cases using automation best practices and maintain CI/CD pipeline framework
- Coding E2E Automated tests for the Angular UI frontend with Cucumber/Webdriver.io.
- Coding Rest API testing automation
- Coding of System testing with ansible, bash scripting
- Drive (plan and implement) lab or simulation environment setup activities to fully address proposed testing scenarios and coordinate equipment acquisition/sharing agreements with the various teams concerned.
- Analyse test results and prepare test reports.
- Investigate software defects and highlight critical issues that can have potential customer impact and consult with software development engineers in finding resolution or to address problems related to specifications and/or test plans/procedures.
- Raise Agile Jira bugs for product defects
- Report on automation status
- Research the best tools/ways of test automation for required functionality
SKILLS
Expected from the candidate:
- Frontend testing frameworks/libraries: Cucumber/Webdriver.io
- Backend testing: Rest API testing automation tools, Postman/Newman, Jasmine
- Load testing: JMeter, Grafana + Prometheus
- Container management: Docker, Kubernetes, OpenStack
- Testing Theory: terminology, testing types, asynchronous automated testing
- Continuous Integration Tools: Jenkins, TeamCity, GitLab
- Cloud Environments: AWS, Azure, Google cloud
- Version control system: Git, Bitbucket
- System Testing Automation with: Bash, Shell, Python, Ansible scripting
- Hands-on experience of CI/CD pipeline configuration and maintenance
- Solid operational and administrator experience with Unix operation systems
- Understanding of Web application and Microservice solution architecture
- Strong abilities to rapidly learn new complex technological concepts and apply knowledge in daily activities.
- Excellent written (documentation) and interpersonal communication skills (English).
- Strong abilities to work as part of a team or independently with little supervision.
- Experienced working as part of an Agile scrum team and with DevOps process
Desirable for the candidate:
- Ticketing: Jira
- Documentation: Confluence, Gitlab
- Frontend programming/markup languages: Typescript/JavaScript, html, CSS, SVG
- Frontend development frameworks/libraries: Angular 2+, Node.js/npm, D3.js, gulp
- Backend programming/markup languages: Python
- Programming theory: algorithms and data structures, relational and graph database concepts, etc.
Non-critical extras:
- Domain: Telecom, Computer Networking, OSS
- Builds: Maven, NPM, JVM, NodeJS
- Databases: PostgreSQL, Neo4j, ClickHouse
- Test Management: TestRail
- Other Skills: ElasticSearch, Drools, Kafka integration, REST (on Spring MVC), SSO (LDAP, Reverse Proxy, OAuth2)
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