QA Automation Engineer

About the client

Universal Music Group is the world’s leading music company.

They are a community of entrepreneurs committed to creativity and innovation.

Universal Music Group own and operate a broad array of businesses engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising, and audiovisual content in more than 60 countries.

As digital technology refashions the world, they unmatched commitment to lead in developing new services, platforms and business models for the delivery of music and related content empowers innovators and allows new commercial and artistic opportunities to flourish.

We are seeking an inquisitive and talented Automation QA Engineer to join a new project starting

You must have 2+ years’ experience as an SDET/Automation Engineer, and 3+ years in QA roles. You have carried out functional testing on complex and high profile products integrating multiple back-end platforms and systems. 

You will be responsible for building and enhancing the test automation framework; designing and executing step definitions and feature files in accordance with the requirements. 

You will continuously contribute to the overall test strategy with ideas of tools and technologies, and support improvement within the QA team.

You must be able to communicate effectively, be proactive and highly involved in team participation, and work closely with your Scrum Team to complete sprint tasks within the given timeframe. 

Main Responsibilities:

• Analyze functional and nonfunctional requirements
• Understand the requirements from technical and business specifications
• Test planning and execution: create, enhance and maintain test scenarios for exploratory and automated testing
• Carry out exploratory manual testing (. smoke testing, regression testing) for both functional and non-functional features of the application
• Define effective functional and non-functional tests that meet acceptance criteria, ensuring adequate depth and breadth of test coverage
• Produce test deliverables such as test reporting and test execution run plans
• Actively support Agile development methods and best practices
• Use JIRA to track defects and tasks
• Take part in meetings, provide estimates, assist in presenting issues and solutions
• Collaborate with team members in the planning phase of User Stories during Scrum Sprints, and with the QA team in areas such as training and assistance
• Support business test teams in UAT

Required Skills:

• Minimum of 3 years of Software Testing experience within SDLC, preferably in an agile or iterative development environment
• Experience building and maintaining automated testing frameworks
• Experience in test planning, execution, and maintenance of automated test scenarios using the principles of the BDD process
• Hands-on experience in defining functional and non-functional automated testing frameworks
• Rest API automation
• Source control management ideally in SVN/Git
• Experience in continuous delivery and continuous deployment, and integration of test scripts into the CI system
• Self-starter, with strong self-management skills and the ability to perform under pressure
• Solid understanding of software testing concepts and methodologies
• Experience in cross-platform testing
• Understanding of risk identification and analysis
• Great communication skills
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail

Desirable:

• Coding experience in C#
• Selenium WD with Cucumber
• Visual Studio, Specflow
• JIRA, Confluence
• AWS, including CI/DC pipeline
• ISTQB qualifications

Benefits

• Training on application
• Access to training for self-development
• Be part of a dynamic team
• Floating holidays
• Flexible benefits basket
• Fun PS4 games and various team bonding and team building programs
• Attractive compensation scheme