Senior Automation Engineer
Remote
Full Time
Experienced
The focus of this role is improving our cost-of-mistake curve by scaling our testing via
automation. You don’t have to be an enterprise developer, but comfort with multiple
programming languages will be extremely useful. However, you will also have to be someone who recognizes the tradeoffs when turning tests into code.
You are a test thinker first, automation engineer second.
While strong test thinking is crucial, all test roles at Omatic have an engineering focus and thus breadth and depth of tooling that scales testing is a requirement for all team members. You will have much freedom to define this role if you show you have the skills to implement it. High self- initiative and self-motivation is required for this role as you will be tasked with implementing without waiting for approval for every decision.
For UI testing, we currently use Cypress, but we have a strong desire to move towards Playwright. For API testing, we are implementing Prism and Microcks. For contract testing, we are implementing Pact. We have a strong desire to scale our use of these tools, and this focus will require you to engage with developers on improving our testability. This will involve testing usability, accessibility, performance and security.
If you have a public code repository, share it with us! Tell us about one of your projects that
you're most excited about or proud of. (It doesn’t have to be automation related.)
Note: SDET roles will be considered if skills are aligned.
What You Will Be Doing:
What You Will Bring:able to think and act experimentally.
automation. You don’t have to be an enterprise developer, but comfort with multiple
programming languages will be extremely useful. However, you will also have to be someone who recognizes the tradeoffs when turning tests into code.
You are a test thinker first, automation engineer second.
While strong test thinking is crucial, all test roles at Omatic have an engineering focus and thus breadth and depth of tooling that scales testing is a requirement for all team members. You will have much freedom to define this role if you show you have the skills to implement it. High self- initiative and self-motivation is required for this role as you will be tasked with implementing without waiting for approval for every decision.
For UI testing, we currently use Cypress, but we have a strong desire to move towards Playwright. For API testing, we are implementing Prism and Microcks. For contract testing, we are implementing Pact. We have a strong desire to scale our use of these tools, and this focus will require you to engage with developers on improving our testability. This will involve testing usability, accessibility, performance and security.
If you have a public code repository, share it with us! Tell us about one of your projects that
you're most excited about or proud of. (It doesn’t have to be automation related.)
Note: SDET roles will be considered if skills are aligned.
What You Will Be Doing:
- Effectively drive an engineering approach to test automation at the level of integration and end-to-end.
- Work with QA Leadership to implement automation as part of sprint work.
- Implement relevant patterns (page object, journey/screenplay, factory, façade, etc.) to make automation maintainable, extendable and scalable.
- Facilitate discussions with the development team on appropriate abstractions to test at, such as unit, integration or system. This will also involve collaboration on component and contract tests.
- Implement an automation architecture, not just automation, with a focus on highly robust locator and synchronization strategies.
- Implement a test data strategy that allows the automation to expose test and data conditions to audiences of varying skill levels.
What You Will Bring:able to think and act experimentally.
- Be able to demonstrate how to think about test and data conditions.
- Be able to articulate and demonstrate various test techniques.
- Be able to articulate and demonstrate various test heuristics.
- Be able to spot bad tests and turn them into good tests.
- Be able to communicate testability ideas to engineers.
- Demonstrated deep knowledge of test methodologies and test techniques.
- Demonstrated experience in creating and implementing test automation strategies.
- Demonstrated ability to grow yourself and constantly evolve your approach and processes.
- High self-initiative and self-motivation required for this role.
- Ability to abstract and apply test concepts of risk, cost/value trade-offs, prioritization, and value-driven processes.
- Ideal: experience with contract testing strategies.
- Ideal: applying automation with xUnit, xSpec, and xBehave tooling.
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