Position Title:
Lead Software Development Engineer in Test
Location:
Limerick, Hybrid or remote options.
Job Description:
Our client is uniquely positioned to define the future of Health Technology – with a profound purpose, to help people live longer and better by predicting and preventing health issues earlier. It’s all about simplifying healthcare.
Position
The primary role of Lead Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) is to ensure that the project quality objectives (to software, documentation, and so on) meet the stated requirements. The responsibilities include project requirements and test analysis, test case definition, execution and update for automation purpose, contribution into test plan development, reporting of deviations and anomalies using appropriate tools, develop automation scripts, setup automation environment, providing professional feedback on the overall product quality and following the defined process.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
QA Engineer – Automation will be responsible for the following:
- Lead a team of 2-3 Engineers in all manual and automation test activities.
- Participate and coordinate global testing strategy.
- Review, analyse and assess project requirements and specifications as well as product functionality to convert them into quality control process artefacts.
- Prepare and acquire test data.
- Develop, execute, refactor, and optimize automation scripts.
- Use automation scripts administration, monitoring, and management tools.
- Provide automation test environment setup.
- Review test artefacts developed by others.
- Contribute to automation process control definition and improvement.
- Provide new automation tools or approaches investigation and implementation.
- Provide test documentation creation.
- Communicate with a customer.
Qualification
Bachelors’ or Masters’ degree in computer science, information technology.
Experience
- 3+ years of experience on Automation using Selenium, WebDriver IO, and TypeScript.
- Experienced with end-to-end testing of Web applications and APIs (for preconditions).
- Experienced with WebDriver IO – writing tests, maintenance, and update of scripts (JavaScript/TypeScript).
- Experienced with CSS/XPATH locators.
- Experienced with Mocha, Chai test frameworks.
- Experienced with updating and execution of performance tests, performance testing results analysis in JMeter.
- Experienced with SuperAgent for API testing.
- Experienced with Allure reports.
- Professional experience in Healthcare domain is a plus.
Skills and Competencies
- Proficient in JavaScript and TypeScript
- Ability to use and understand testing methods, levels, types, metrics, different test analyses methods.
- Ability to use and understand test artefacts and their lifecycle (bug reports, test cases, etc.)
- Ability to use and understand common artefact management systems (bug trackers, test and requirement management, etc.)
- Ability to use and understand automation script structure (framework, preconditions, asserts, logging etc.)
- Ability to understanding automation testing purposes, approaches, benefits, life cycle, levels, and types.
- Ability to prepare input data, test scenarios and prioritize them.
- Ability to provide code review and fix both scripts and automation framework.
- Ability to setup and maintain automation testware (visualisation tool, automation tool, version control system, build automation tool).
- Ability to use unit test frameworks.
- Ability to write test reports, automation architecture specification and deliver them to project manager or customer.
- Ability to integrate automation testing results with test case management system.
- Ability to implement cross environment, parallel automation testing frameworks.
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