Senior Automation Engineer

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Job DescriptionWe are looking for a talented senior QA test automation engineer to support the Organic Search (SEO) team based in London. The Organic Search team is responsible for driving Organic Search traffic and enquiries across all of EF s markets, and is a highly international team. As a QA engineer you will work across a number of key business critical projects and produce high quality test plans, scenarios and scripts to ensure key requirements are met. You will join a development team within an AGILE environment and will be involved in the full development life cycle to provide robust testing and QA functions.You are expected to be a driver of the QA environment with great attention on details. You have the ability to setup a new QA infrastructure from scratch, a clear and clean structure of testing plan across different devices and environment, and a well- structured way to maintain the testing code and documentations. You are confidence to work with minimum supervision and offer creative solutions in support of testing. The role also requires that you are an excellent team player and can work closely with other developers based in Zurich (Switzerland), and London (U.K.). Limited travel to other EF office may be required. ResponsibilitiesAs a QA engineer, you will report to the Technical Project Manager and be responsible for: Work with developers and other testers in different geographic location and project manager to establish testing plan. Define and deliver both automation and manual test strategyParticipate in project planning and team meeting to ensure thorough understanding the project features with a goal of ensuring highly testable plan is delivered.Leading the QA testing design and development in both validation of the requirements and the verification of the implementation. Write quality automated test scripts using automated testing frameworks and toolsTesting cross browsers, mobile and web based applicationsIdentify defects and communicate the issues the relevant team member using the Jira tracking system.Keep track of industry software testing tools and best practices.QualificationsBachelor /Master degree in Computer science or relevant subjectsMinimum 5 years experience in software /web- based automation test Ideally you have been on a role as QA lead with ability to setup a QA automation system /platform from scratchSkillsProven experience of testing large volumes of data and web- based application.Capable of setting up the QA infrastructure and architecture from scratch using continuous integration tool e.g. JenkinsBe a driver or navigator to lead the direction of the QA architecture. Responsible for the setup /managing /optimizing the architecture, maintain the test cases, and test documentationsExperiences on how to setup testing across different devices and browsers under different environment.Strong automation skills experience building and maintaining automation frameworks through the creation of clean quality testing codeHave solid understanding in Jenkins and have hand on experiences on version control tools - Team foundation server is preferred. Comfortable to write complex testing scripts using Java /C# for web based applicationsGUI automation testing experience using Selenium.Understanding the relational database management system - MS SQL Server 2008 /2012An outstanding team player and excellent communication skillsBe able to work in a fast- paced environment, and can handle pressures with the tight deadlinesDesirableBeing a role as QA lead with ability to setup the QA automation platform /system from the scratchKnowledge of the CMS (sitecore is preferable)Knowledge of Javascript /Jquery, CSS and HTMLSolid knowledge of coding pattern and coding best practicesAgile practices and principlesExperience testing API service based applicationExperience in mobile app testing and cross browser testingShareSaveEF- Bangalore- Salarpuria Cambridge Mall#9, Level 3, Salarpuria Cambridge Mall, Cambridge LayoutBangalore, 560008IndiaBuilding the future of learning: web application development, system administration and technical support in addition to hardware, software and networking management.What our people sayEFs mission is to create global citizens, and the work culture perfectly embodies that. I ve been given the opportunity to transfer to Shanghai. Im writing this from the office in Jiao Tong!Alex Zito- WolfFront- end Developer, Learning Labs,

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