Senior QA Automation Engineer

Santex; Antioquia; Presencial; COP 3.708.000 - 4.944.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Santex is seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer to lead testing strategies across the product lifecycle, ensuring high-quality software. You will collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers to plan, implement, and refine test frameworks for API and UI validation.

The role emphasizes automated and manual testing, leadership, and a proactive approach to quality in a fast-paced environment, with a focus on continuous improvement and strong collaboration.

Formación

• 6+ years of experience in QA using manual and automated testing for APIs and systems.
• Expertise in smoke, integration, regression, and UAT testing, and test automation tools such as Java, JavaScript, Postman, Newman, Cucumber, JMeter, Selenium.
• Skilled in building test strategies for UI, APIs, and service layers in highly transactional systems.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and troubleshooting complex issues quickly and effectively.
• Proficiency in BDD, ATDD, TDD, and related practices.
• Strong understanding of test frameworks, test planning, and execution for both manual and automated testing.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills for working with cross-functional teams.
• Strong analytical skills for reviewing technical specs, log files, and identifying high-risk areas.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, including MS SQL Server and Oracle.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as GCP, Azure, and AWS.
• Experience using SCM tools like Git and SVN.
• Demonstrated leadership, high standards, and a results-driven mindset with a passion for innovation.
• AdvancedEnglish Required

Responsabilidades

• Develop testing plans, frameworks, test cases, and test scripts.
• Execute unit, automated, and manual tests and code reviews.
• Document and track defects with clear reporting on severity and resolution status.
• Participate in agile planning events by offering quality-focused insights during PI planning, sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Work with Product Owners, Engineers, and Designers to define quality objectives, identify risks, and promote early testing practices.
• Help define acceptance criteria and develop comprehensive test strategies including scope, environments, metrics, and reporting.
• Collaborate with Engineers to ensure applications are testable and include effective logging, monitoring, and observability.
• Create and execute test cases for smoke, integration, regression, and UAT testing.
• Conduct manual and automated tests to validate functionality and identify edge cases and error handling issues.
• Log, prioritize, and track bugs while working with Engineers on debugging and resolution.
• Develop and maintain automated tests as part of CI/CD pipelines with DevOps support.
• Apply best practices, engineering tools, and emerging technologies to enhance quality and delivery.
• Contribute to process improvement and team testing workflows Performance Measurement and Optimization.
• Monitor quality metrics such as defect and change failure rates to identify improvement opportunities in testing and delivery processes.

Conocimientos

QA testing

API testing

Automation tools

Java

JavaScript

Postman

Selenium

JUnit/TestNG

CI/CD

Bug tracking

Communications

Analytical thinking

Herramientas

Postman

Newman

Cucumber

JMeter

Selenium

Git

SVN

Descripción del empleo

Santex is seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer to lead testing strategies across the product lifecycle, ensuring high-quality software. You will collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers to plan, implement, and refine test frameworks for API and UI validation.

The role emphasizes automated and manual testing, leadership, and a proactive approach to quality in a fast-paced environment, with a focus on continuous improvement and strong collaboration.