Test Automation Engineer

Enlightenment: Address the skills/knowledge deficit within S&B Software development community by conducting workshops & Meetups around various topics including the Microservices Architecture, DevOps culture and practice, Reactive Paradigm & Functional Programming and Modern Data Management Practices & Architecture.

Standardization: Keep up with the technology advancement and contribute on specifying the right technical standards and organizational processes that push forward Scheidt & Bachmann

Cross-divisional development: Development of Common Code and Common Components to set up the basics for synergy between divisions and establish one-house standards. Under this activity, we are having two agile team working on the following projects:

The Program Manager Project: While The Microservice architecture style is widely adopted in the backend to achieve flexibility in development and operation, most frontend solutions are still running as a monolithic application. The Program Manager project is the next generation frontend composition framework in Scheidt & Bachman that aims to address where multiple software pieces, based on different web technologies can be combined in one software solution.

The Configuration Management Project: The current S&B systems provide extensive sets of parameters to allow the systems to be configured in conformance with the requirements of a particular project/client. The Configuration Management System (a.k.a Houston) is an ecosystem of software services, development tools and processes that aim to improve Scheidt & Bachmann software delivery pipeline starting from development, configuration, release management, validation and operation.

Responsibilities:

•  Maintain documentation and requirements

•  Create & Update test descriptions

•  Develop & update test scripts

•  Make manual testing when it’s needed

•  Prepare test reports

•  Open & check bugs

•  Take responsibility for and be engaged to improve the entire QA lifecycle

•  Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications

•  Work in an agile development environment

Must:

•  At least two years of test automation experience AFTER university

•  Technical study in computer science or a comparable domain

•  Deep knowledge in Python, Robot Framework, protractor and jasmine

•  Good debugging skills

•  Excellent English language skills

•  Self contained way of working

•  Tolerant attitude to different cultures

•  Mindset for agile software development

Should:

•  Experience with CI / CD tools like TeamCity/Jenkins

•  Knowledge in the following technical domains: Webservices, Hosting, Virtualization techniques, Linux

•  Knowledge in the following tools: wireshark, tcpdump, firebug, Chrome DevTools, testlink, Jira

Nice to have:

•  Knowledge of the German Language

•  Experience with dockerization / orchestration tools