Senior Automation Test Engineer (JavaScript)

We seek an Expert Quality Assurance Engineer to join our customer team within the Engineering and operation function, bring new features to life, and support our products’ move to modern agile and technical practices and architectures. As a seasoned Quality Assurance Engineer specializing in automation and cutting-edge software testing methodologies, you’ll join one of our teams working on a state-of-the-art full-stack e-Commerce application based on next.js/TypeScript. Requirements:

• As Expert Quality Assurance Engineer, you must be able to provide:
• Ability to work in an autonomous, self-responsible and self-organised way.
• 6+ years of experience in software testing, manual and automated
• Strong Experience working with modern test automation frameworks and tools (e.g. web driver, Cypress, Playwright, Jest, Cucumber, react-testing-library).
• Strong experience in different testing practices (from unit to load to endurance to cross-platform) specifically integrated within CI/CD.
• Experience in continuous testing practices in production by leveraging BOT and virtual users
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and monitoring tools (e.g. Jenkins, TeamCity, Kibana, Grafana, etc.).
• Knowledge of API testing, REST protocol and microservice architecture concepts.
• Postman, AWS
• Able to effectively communicate in English.
• Good experience in querying data from relational or not relational databases
• Experience writing clean code in different programming languages(e.g. TypeScript, JavaScript , Python, Java, etc).
• Knowledge of software testing theory .

Responsibilities:

• Take ownership and responsibility for the design and development of all aspects of testing.
• Work on acceptance criteria and test scenarios with the Product Owner and development team.
• Design, execute, and maintain test scenarios and automation capabilities for all test levels and types (e.g., automated, regression, exploratory, etc.).
• Create and optimise test frameworks and integrate them into deployment pipelines.
• Participate in the code review process for both production and test code to ensure all critical cases are covered.
• Monitor test runs, application errors and performance.
• Making information flow, keeping the team informed and being a stakeholder in releases and defect tracking.
• Share the best testing and quality practices and processes across Zooplus.
• Promote and coach the team towards a quality-focused mindset.
• Influence and lead the team towards continuous improvement and best testing practices.
• Be the reference of the QA Center of Practice , promoting their practices and influencing their strategy, bringing your team experience into their plan.

Why this position: You play a pivotal role in upholding the highest quality standards within your team. Reporting directly to the Engineering Manager, you spearhead the quality assurance efforts, ensuring seamless collaboration across various functional teams. You serve as the beacon of excellence in product delivery and deployment, setting the benchmark for quality standards. Your expertise serves as a bridge to the QA Center of Practice, facilitating the exchange of best practices within and beyond your team. Your primary objective is cultivating a culture of excellence and efficiency in quality assurance, freeing up valuable time for your team to focus on innovative solutions rather than redundant testing procedures. By leveraging advanced tooling and coding techniques, you seamlessly integrate automation testing into every team member's daily workflow. Through close collaboration with cross-functional teams, you drive the implementation of new features and enhancements, ultimately enhancing the experience for over 9 million customers.