Senior Automation/QE - (8 month Fixed term contract)

N-able; Dundee; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A global software company is seeking a Senior Automation QA Engineer for maternity cover in Scotland. You will maintain quality through test plans and develop automated tests across products. Candidates must have expertise in automation, problem-solving skills, and experience with tools like Docker and Git. This role offers medical coverage, generous PTO, and a hybrid work model.

Benefits

Medical, dental and vision coverage

Generous PTO and observed holidays

Paid Volunteer Days

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Custom learning experience

Hybrid working model

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of software quality control processes and SDLC.
• Experience with RESTful APIs and distributed web applications.
• Ability to create and maintain test documentation.

Responsibilities

• Test complex features and participate in regression testing.
• Develop new automated tests and enhance the test framework.
• Collaborate with Product Managers to determine requirements.

Skills

Test Automation

Problem-solving

Low-level HTTP debugging

Tools

C#

Java

Python

Docker

Git

Job description

Why N-able

N-able isn’t just another software company – we’re going places, and we would love for you to be a part of that journey. With N- ablites in more than 15 countries around the world, you’re adding your unique voice to a diverse team of people who are supporting our customers, and one another. The Way We Work, our hybrid working model based on trust and flexibility, allows you to maximize your contributions while growing your career.

This is a fixed-term 8 month maternity cover. The role can be based in either our Edinburgh or Dundee hub.

We are looking to hire a Senior Automation QA Engineer who is focused on maintaining the quality standards through developing test plans for the scope delivered by the team. The role forms and implements automated tests for new features across complex products, services, and components.

What You'll Do

• Tests complex features at a high level of quality, participate in regression testing, and post-delivery checks.
• Develops new automated tests and advise on the enhancement to the test framework to ensure quality standards.
• Demonstrates expertise across a set of components, products or services.
• Identify testing approaches, including automation and advise on automation plans for features ad vises on design and best practices in automated tests development.
• Identifies design issues and proposes testability improvements and m aintains advanced test documentation which includes test plan and test strategy to keep high standards of product quality.
• Collaborate with Product Managers and other stakeholders to determine requirements.
• Reviews and enhances usability of features, follows existing usability guidelines to improve user experience and a nalyzes and proactively assists with customer issues reproduction.
• Independently determines testing priorities and co llaborates with the testing team, specifically helping newcomers with onboarding to automation, assisting to less experienced Quality Engineers with their tasks and mentoring teammates.
• Creates and maintains test infrastructure to keep operability.

What You'll Bring

• Strong knowledge of the testing and automation theory and of the software quality control process and SDLC
• High skill level in Test Automation: writes new automated tests in line with existing tests structure, adds enhancements to the test framework
• Professional experience in the development of automated tests using the programming language used in the product/stream for automation, e.g.: C#, ASP.NET, JavaScript, Java, Python, Groovy, Go
• Strong problem-solving skills, experience working with escalations on customer/production issues
• Experience with low-level HTTP debugging tools such as Wireshark, Fiddler, Charles Proxy, and DebugDiag and w ith testing of RESTful APIs and Distributed Web Applications and with development of E2E and API automated tests
• Experience working with any relational DB and SQL , with Operating System-based scripting (bash,) with advanced features of dev-tools in browser, with Source Control tools (Git) and with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, with cloud-based technologies AWS/Azure, with Docker and with Windows/macOS/Linux

Purple Perks

• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• Generous PTO and observed holidays
• 2 Paid VoluNteer Days per year
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• FuN-raising opportunities as part of our giving program
• N-ablite Learning – custom learning experience as part of our investment in you
• The Way We Work – our hybrid working model based on trust and flexibility

About N-able

At N-able, Inc. (NYSE: NABL), we are a global software company that turns IT possibilities into capabilities. That means we partner with technology leaders who support companies around the world by offering secure infrastructure and tools to navigate their evolving IT needs. We build strong relationships with our customers to help them thrive at every stage of growth, and at the heart of this effort is our network of N- ablites —a global team of extraordinary, diverse creators who are dedicated to making a difference in how our partners do IT.

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• Strong knowledge of the testing and automation theory and of the software quality control process and SDLC
• High skill level in Test Automation: writes new automated tests in line with existing tests structure, adds enhancements to the test framework
• Professional experience in the development of automated tests using the programming language used in the product/stream for automation, e.g.: C#, ASP.NET, JavaScript, Java, Python, Groovy, Go
• Strong problem-solving skills, experience working with escalations on customer/production issues
• Experience with low-level HTTP debugging tools such as Wireshark, Fiddler, Charles Proxy, and DebugDiag and w ith testing of RESTful APIs and Distributed Web Applications and with development of E2E and API automated tests
• Experience working with any relational DB and SQL , with Operating System-based scripting (bash,) with advanced features of dev-tools in browser, with Source Control tools (Git) and with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, with cloud-based technologies AWS/Azure, with Docker and with Windows/macOS/Linux

• Tests complex features at a high level of quality, participate in regression testing, and post-delivery checks.
• Develops new automated tests and advise on the enhancement to the test framework to ensure quality standards.
• Demonstrates expertise across a set of components, products or services.
• Identify testing approaches, including automation and advise on automation plans for features ad vises on design and best practices in automated tests development.
• Identifies design issues and proposes testability improvements and m aintains advanced test documentation which includes test plan and test strategy to keep high standards of product quality.
• Collaborate with Product Managers and other stakeholders to determine requirements.
• Reviews and enhances usability of features, follows existing usability guidelines to improve user experience and a nalyzes and proactively assists with customer issues reproduction.
• Independently determines testing priorities and co llaborates with the testing team, specifically helping newcomers with onboarding to automation, assisting to less experienced Quality Engineers with their tasks and mentoring teammates.
• Creates and maintains test infrastructure to keep operability.