QA Automation Engineer

Athento; Málaga; Hybrid; EUR 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Restaurant checks for meals

Kindergarten voucher for children

Private health insurance

Books expenses reimbursement

Macbooks and work equipment provided

Up to 300€/year for courses

Vouchers (Ryanair, Amazon)

Job summary

Athento is seeking a QA Automation engineer to lead efforts ensuring product quality. You will collaborate with product engineers to design and automate testing strategies, increasing test coverage and implementing automated tools for back and front testing.

You will define QA policy for new releases, develop libraries and frameworks for automation, and participate in test design discussions and code reviews with the product team. Strong English and OO programming skills are essential.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of demonstrable experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with automated tests types: unit, sanity, performance, security, load/stress.
• Experience writing automated tests, preferably in Python.
• Experience with Scrum and other agile methodologies.
• Unit testing experience.
• Ability to read and understand texts in English.
• Object-oriented programming.
• Familiarity with PEP 8.

Responsibilities

• Lead efforts to increase and maintain test coverage.
• Implement automated tools and strategies for back and front testing.
• Define QA policy in new releases.
• Develop and maintain libraries, tools, and frameworks for automation testing.
• Participate in test design discussions and code reviews with the product team.
• Design test cases.
• Maintain QA culture and architecture.

Skills

Automation testing

Python

Unit testing

Agile / Scrum

English reading

Object-oriented programming

PEP 8

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Playwright

Selenium

Git

CircleCI

Django/Python unit tests

Job description

As a QA Automation engineer you will lead the efforts to ensure product quality. You will collaborate with product engineers to design and automate testing strategies.

• Ensure and lead the efforts to increase and maintain test coverage.
• Implement automated tools and strategies for back and front testing.
• Define the policy of QA in new releases.
• Develop and maintain libraries, tools, and frameworks for automation testing.
• Participate in test design discussions and code reviews with the product team.
• Design test cases.
• Take care of QA culture & architecture.

Soft Skills

• Passion for engineering and technologies.
• Ability to learn autonomously.
• Ability to self-manage.
• Ability to work in a team.
• Product and usability-oriented work.

Qualifications and requirements

Experience & Qualifications

• At least 5 years of demonstrable experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, a related technical field,or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with different types of automated tests such as unit, sanity, performance, security, load/stress.
• Experience with writing automated tests, preferably in Python.
• Scrum and other agile methodologies.
• Unit testing
• Be able to read and understand texts in English.
• Object-oriented programming.
• PEP 8

Stack and Tools

Django/Python Unit Tests 99%

Circle CI 95%

Playwrite or Selenium 95%

Git 95%

Scrum 99%

So what's the plan?

Take our courses, join the Scrum daily sessions.

Start with small tasks and their tests

Start developing small features, changes in the code and other small task so you get started and gain knowledge on our product and its structure. Code unit tests for these small features.

Lead the QA process

By now we expect you to feel comfortable with the project structure, modules and libraries as well as with the current tests tools used. From here on, we want you to guide us in the design of our software QA system.

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Day 15th

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What will you

G E T

Work from home

Work remotely, from home or from an island in the Caribbean.

Time for yourself

Take your birthday off every year, Christmas Eve and New Years Eve also and 22 holiday days per year.

Change offices

You can work from Colombia or from Spain. Every 3 years you can change offices for a while.

As part of your salary you can choose to receive restaurant checks for food.

As part of your salary you can choose to receive kindergarten voucher for your children.

As part of your salary you can choose to receive a private health insurance.

Library

Ask for books related to your profession. Athento covers the expenses.

Equipment

Macbooks (or other kind of laptops), screens, keyboards and everything you need to do your job properly.

Suggest new tools

We subscribe and pay for tools you suggest that can improve team productivity.

Paid courses

Up tp 300€/year to take courses related to you job. Keep learning and maintain yourself up to date.

Rewards

You do well, we praise you: Ryainair vouchers, Amazon vouchers and other incentives.

And more!

Mentoring, trainning, congress, a cool team and culture, stocks and more!

Magic Fridays!

If you have been on the team longer than 5 years, you get a Friday off per every year of work.

Learn a new language with a native teacher. Twice per week. It's on us!

Sounds

T O O

good to be true...

If you don’t believe what you see on this page, listen to our colleagues and external auditors.

92% of the Athento team believes our company is a Great Place To Work.89 Trust Index.

Join our team and grow your professional career with us. We are looking forward to many adventures together.

Move to Malaga (Spain) and enjoy life

Nice weather the whole year, welcoming culture, nice food, international airport and the sea :)