Test Automation Engineer

Ops Proficient Engineer

Key tasks

Improving the way we test

Challenge the status quo

Defining and improving our test vision, test strategy and standards &

guidelines

Experimenting with new tools to improve our testing capabilities

Support and coaching of Ops Engineers in all squads to improve testing

Support and coaching the product owners and business analysts to

improve the way of working, with quality in mind

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Implementing and enforcing quality controls

Participate in user story refinement, ask all the 'but what if' questions,

propagate example mapping and ensure adequate acceptance criteria

are defined (functional as well as non-functional)

Enforcing compliance with Definition of Read and Definition of Done

Full test automation of functional tests and regression tests

Manual testing when and where required

Setting up and executing performance tests

Supporting Disaster Recovery Tests and Security Penetration Testing

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Monitoring the health of our application, using tools like

Kibana and Grafana

Internal Pega monitoring (AES)

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Ensuring compliancy

Keep our application compliance with IT risk policies

Maintain access matrix

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Supporting the application through ITIL processes, among which

Incident, Problem and Change Management

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Managing and improving the Deployment Pipeline and embedding quality controls as part

of it

What we expect from you

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

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Testing skills

Defining and applying test standards & guidelines

Defining test vision and test strategy

Using Test Automation Frameworks for defining and running automated

tests

Experience with (Acceptance) Test Driven Development and ability to

promote it

Experience with integrating automated tests within build & deployment

pipeline (CD/CI)

Experience with setting up automated performance tests (measuring

performance against benchmark and different types of load)

Coaching skills

Mentoring and training other Ops Engineers in the field of testing and

automation

Facilitation skills

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Technology, tools and process knowledge

Cucumber, Selenium

ITIL knowledge (Incident, Problem and Change Management)

Azure DevOps

Agile team experience with SCRUM or Kanban or XP

Java knowledge

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Mindset & soft skills

Automation mindset & waste buster

Proactive attitude, always on the look-out for improving your and our way

of working

Diplomacy and good communication skills

Not shy to express and defend his/her opinion in front of a crowd (even if

it is not the popular opinion)

Analysis capabilities and testing abilities