Automation Test Engineer

[Travelstart]

We are looking for an Automation Test Engineer to fit into the agile development team and assist in signing off development work for release.

The key deliverables in this role will be to:

• Running the automated testing programs against the full Travelstart platform;
• Working with the dev ops teams to facilitate faster deployment with a lower bug rate;
• Be responsible for all aspects of automation testing and quality assurance on assigned projects;
• Be responsible for working with developers and end users to gather testing requirements and then develop and execute automated test strategies;
• Working with internal and external customers to create, develop, and execute automated test plans based on the business directive and providing detailed defect analysis reports to these teams; and
• You will have to play foosball occasionally.

Expectations:
At 3 months to achieve:

• Get an understanding of the industry, platform and environments to be able to comfortably understand what is required in terms of automated testing scenarios;
• Create and run automated tests to “create a booking” (all types) on all front ends including website, API and mobile and B2B (Next);
• Create and run automated tests against TCC for basic functions including cancel, ticket, void, refresh bookings;
• Participate with manual QA to understand how users interact with the system to be able to assist in UAT and regression testing; and
• Help grow the list of test cases and scenarios as pre-emptive work for further automation.

At 6 months:

• Create ad run more advanced automated tests against TCC including but not limited to functions around invoice lines and invoicing (including activity lines);
• Basic structures in place to start rule table testing;
• DB testing automated rules- tests to ensure data written in terms of completeness and accuracy to correct tables at correct times;
• Start investigating mocking frameworks – create scenarios required mocked results for suppliers and gateways and find best tool to run these; and
• Error mapping scenario plans (to later automated with mocked results).

After 6 months:

• Mocking frameworks allowing focused approach on performance testing of system; and
• Get involved with developers on unit test level.

Listed below are the minimum requirements with regards to skills, competencies and abilities needed for this role:

• Experience in automating UI tests through selenium WebDriver with python, java;
• Experience in testing web based application in agile development process;
• Ability to use white box API test tools (e.g. SOAP UI, etc.) to duplicate defects and problems reported by application developers;
• Experience with performance, regression and load testing;
• Knowledge of QA process, testing life cycle; and
• Excellent communication is critical as this role will interact on a daily basis with vendor and business partners.

Experience:

• 3+ years’ experience in software automated quality assurance testing;
• Experience with complex integrated applications, proven results in coordinating end to end tests; and
• Previous experience in the Travel industry would be helpful.

We are looking for a Automation Test Engineer who will fit into the Travelstart family.*The successful candidate will demonstrate the following characteristics:

• Passionate;
• Driven;
• Love for the travel industry;
• Willing to take the right risk;
• Warrior spirit;
• Ideas generator; and
• Meet requirements but continually exceed expectations.

If you are interested in this GREAT opportunity email your CV to*hr@travlestart.com. The reference for this opportunity is “Automation Test Engineer” please insert this into the subject line of your email application.

Any applicants not meeting the minimum requirements will not receive a response.

Please note that we reserve to right to amend, freeze the role or not hire. The final appointment will be at the discretion of Travelstart.

Good luck!

 

[Slootvreter]

Salary scale? Let me guess, "competitive" or "market related?"