Job Description
Job Title: Apptad - Senior QA Automation Engineer
Job Location: St. Paul, MN (Hybrid/Open for remote for a strong candidate but prefers local candidates)
Job Duration: Long-Term
Job Description
- Ecolab is providing an exciting opportunity to join our Ecolab Digital team as a Senior QA Automation Engineer working with the Executive Business Review (EBR) product team among others. The Senior QA Automation Engineer will lead quality assurance (QA) responsibilities and automation efforts to support & enable our software engineering teams; they are expected to be hands-on guiding the engineering teams as they are writing their own tests.
- This role will work closely with Product to ensure software is reliable as they platforms extends to meet new business requirement.
- This role will also bear responsibility to drive and own Quality Initiatives, KPI's and mechanisms for the team.
- This role will focus on leading quality assurance (QA) automation
What's in it For You:
- The opportunity to take on some of the world's most meaningful challenges, helping customers achieve clean water, safe food, and healthy environments
- The ability to build expertise in some of the software engineering field's most in-demand skills
- The ability to make an impact and shape your career with a company that is passionate about growth
- The support of an organization that believes it is vital to include and engage diverse people, perspectives, and ideas to achieve our best
What You Will Do:
- Implement automation strategy, automation case development approaches, and design tools for testing of client's Digital systems.
- Direct the development team on the design and implementation of automated tests that will help in end-to-end quality of major deliverables
- Lead Quality outcomes by standardizing test planning, test case development, test code reviews, and associated mechanisms.
- In partnership with Product Management and Engineering, define the output metrics and bar for quality in Ecolab Digital with input metric drivers including mechanisms for tracking.
- Provide visibility to quality status (issues, risks, metrics, etc.) on an ongoing basis through push status reporting (to all stakeholders, team members, and interested parties).
- Develop strong partnerships with key functional stakeholders to drive focus on quality goals.
- Anticipate and remove obstacles with a sense of urgency that slow down or prevent project teams from delivering with quality
- Provide monthly program reviews and updates at sprint reviews (deep dive into current state of project goals, risks, escalations).
- Participate in a Quality Center of Excellence with key stakeholders from various platform teams to help make key decisions, remove obstacles, and address key quality issues
- Be a catalyst within the organization as someone who can help advance our quality drive others in the organization to change.
Minimal Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience; preferred degree in Software Engineering
Preferred Qualifications
- 4+ years experience in building test automation and working with automated frameworks and tools
- Proficient with Azure Cloud environment
- Experience in building test automation and working with automated frameworks and tools
- Experience with QA automation in different application layers API, UI, Data
- Programming experience and familiarity with patterns and best practices using automation tools (such as Playwright, Selenium, Postman, etc)
- Experience with CI/CD tools, such as Azure DevOps
- Experience with both onshore and offshore and with full-time and contract team members
- Deep experience with the software development lifecycle in an Agile setting; ability to adjust and apply this knowledge in a dynamic environment using agile methodologies.
- Outstanding organizational, communication, and relationship building skills conducive to driving consensus; able to work well in a cross-functional, matrix management environment.
- Knowledge of professional software engineering best practices including coding standards, code reviews, SCM, CI, build processes, testing, and operations
- Strong organizational, project management, analysis, and communication skills.
- Excellent knowledge of Risk Management, Risk Identification and Risked Based Testing
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