Sr. QA Test Automation Engineer

ABOUT SEARCHSTAX

SearchStax is on a mission to empower teams across the globe to deliver cloud-based search applications and experiences faster and with more confidence. The market is growing fast; with our current product and upcoming roadmap, and our A+ team, we have the confidence to create something highly valuable for 100s of brand-name customers, for years to come.

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ABOUT THE ROLE
SearchStax engineering and product development teams are designing, architecting, developing, testing, and maintaining SearchStax's PaaS/SaaS products that serve hundreds of customers across the globe. We have an ambitious roadmap and are looking for an experienced Software Test Automation Engineer to join our QA team and help us accelerate our roadmap and build high-quality software.

We follow modified Agile Scrum with 2-week sprints, daily stand-ups and are a fully remote team across the globe (US, Europe, India).

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Be an independent, self-motivated, proactive, detailed and results-oriented individual and take ownership of Quality Assurance and testing.
• Closely interact and collaborate with distributed teams across different time zones. (Scrum masters, developers, Product Owners and QA), participate in required test activities, deliverables and test schedules, including delivery priorities, and test automation.
• Understand how changes impact work upstream and downstream for various back-end and front-end dependencies, modules, APIs and client apps.
• Estimate, prioritize, plan, and coordinate automated testing activities.
• Accelerate our current test automation coverage across our product UIs and APIs. Develop and execute suites of automation test plans, test cases for inclusion in regression, automation for newly integrated features, and development of tools to augment QA and Engineering testing. 
• Design, develop and implement test harnesses, and cross-platform test automation for the testing of APIs, and Web App User Interfaces. Define test data conditions, develop functional, integration, performance and API test suites along with necessary libraries, shared components and object models for continuous testing.
• While automation is your main focus, actively participate in all phases of testing including performing manual/exploratory testing.
• Participate in analysis of user stories, requirements, pass-fail criteria, test design, defect logging and tracking. Conduct test case and code reviews to ensure scenarios accurately capture requirements.
• Actively engage in root cause analysis, defect reporting and triaging.
• Identify and drive improvements to our software and development processes for assurance and defect prevention.
• Influence and drive quality and testability of software products and services.
• Mentor junior engineers, new team members and apply technical expertise to challenging problems relating to quality engineering.

REQUIREMENT

• 5+ years of professional automation development experience, experience testing PaaS/SaaS software products, Quality Assurance Methodologies
• Must have experience working in an Agile development environment.
• Strong experience using object repositories, data driven testing, classes and other development best practices, needing minimal to no guidance from others.
• Proficiency with Node.JS and JavaScript development.
• Good Working experience on Playwright or JavaScript/Typescript based Test Automation tools like cypress/WebDriver.
• Strong experience with white-box, black-box, service integration, REST APIs and back-end testing.
• Full working knowledge of GitHub and CI/CD process.
• Strong problem solving, troubleshooting, communication and comprehension skills, both verbal and written.
• Experience with UI frameworks such as is a plus.
• Familiarity with auth and identity protocols, search engines, web frameworks, REST APIs and SDKs, data modeling and storage with NoSQL and RDBMS, open-source projects like Apache Solr.
• Familiarity with major cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure is a plus.
• Understanding SDLC that is a part of a larger architecture and APIs.

HOW WE'll SUPPORT YOU

• Work in a fully remote/flexible environment with a group of highly talented, diverse and driven team members.
• The tools, technology and resources you need to be successful in your role, including a computer of your choice.
• Competitive salary with bonus and equity potential.
  
• Paid Time Off (vacation, sick and holidays).