Test Automation Engineer II

Job Summary

If you love to design scalable fault-tolerant systems that can run efficiently with high performance and

are eager to learn new technologies and develop new skills, then we have a great opportunity for you:

join our PDI family and work closely with other talented PDI engineers to deliver solutions that delight

our customers every day!

You will play a key role in designing and building our market leading software products as we drive

to continuously increase our cloud maturity and mobility. You will be working as a key part of an agile

team to design, build, test, and support PDI's enterprise software solutions. You will review, recommend

& implement system enhancements that will improve the quality, performance, and maintainability of

our products. You will be responsible for contributing to an always improving Engineering environment

by ensuring all stakeholders (engineers, architects, product owners, SREs, IT Ops…) are informed of

status and supported in their roles.

With the variety of environments, platforms, technologies & languages, you must be comfortable working

in both Windows & Linux environments, including PowerShell scripting & bash, database administration

as well as bare metal virtualization technologies and public cloud environments (GCP, AWS, Azure).

Responsibilities

 Oversee and contribute to design decisions for new and existing test automation efforts, proactively escalating issues and seeking assistance to overcome obstacles

 Guide and train less experienced test automation engineers

 Be part of an Agile team, participate in all Agile ceremonies & activities and be accountable for the sprint deliverable

 Participate in Release/Iteration planning, smoke, feature and regression test planning

 Design & build automation smoke, feature & regression tests

 Review code with your peers for testability, supportability and look for full unit test coverage

 Write feature use cases in BDD to drive the creation of automated test cases

 Set up test environments as required including client and web applications, services and databases

 Prepare Automation Test Plans for Service Level Tests, Integration Tests and UI tests as needed

 Review product owner acceptance criteria and look for non-functional requirement gaps to fill

 Support automating traceability of Stories, Acceptance Criteria and Test cases through the integration of CI and BDD frameworks and tools.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

 3-7 years’ experience in software development & software automation

 2+ years of practical experience with Agile development methodologies

 Proficient in at least one SQL based RDBMS, DML & DDL: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server

 Proficient writing test automation for SOAP & REST Web Services

 Proficient with several programming languages: C#, Java, Node.JS/JavaScript, Delphi

 Experience with BDD, gherkin language

 Experience with test automation tools: JMeter, SpecFlow, Selenium, Coypu, Cucumber

 Working experience hooking windows and web controls via code

 Experience integrating testing results with CI tools: MSBuild, Jenkins, SonarQube

 Experience with network management, windows application, services, web application and database setup

 Working experience writing functional and performance tests for Web APIs and Web Applications

 Highly motivated self-starter with a desire to help others and take action

 Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts into non-technical terms

 Ability to independently work as a contributing member in a high-paced and focused team

 Collaborative in nature with a strong desire to dig in and learn independently and as well as through asking questions

 Considers ‘best-practice’ standards, as well as departmental policies and procedures

 Strong computer science fundamentals: OOP, design patters, data structures & algorithms