Senior QA Automation Engineer

Nature and aim of the position

We are looking for strengthening our QA team working on our in-house Refunding applications.

As part of an agile engineering team, you will be responsible to ensure that product releases are delivered in high quality and in time. In your role you will be cooperating closely with Product Managers, Developers and QA Engineers to reach these targets together.

Reporting to the Development Lead the successful candidate will also contribute to align with the quality standards and test strategy/process of Global Blue and to continuously drive improvements.

We’d love to have you join our team and help us achieve our goals by developing a deep understanding of our system and applications and take part in all quality activities.

Main duties and responsibilities

• Review and challenge incoming requirements to ensure completeness and provide estimations
• Create, maintain, and execute manual and automated test cases. These tests concern functional as well as non-functional (quality) criteria of the systems under test.
• Create and maintain test data
• Become and stay an expert in the setup, configuration, and usage of the applications under test
• Perform deployments for testing purposes
• Understand the business processes and business needs for being able to perform reasonable exploratory testing
• Provide reasonable quality information and test reporting of your tests, highlight possible delays in time
• Coordinate/cooperate with the team, the QA organisation, the Product Owner, and other stakeholders
• Join and contribute to agile team meetings (backlog grooming, retrospective, review, …)
• Take a leading role on certain releases or projects within the team
• Identify improvement needs and actively drive its implementations in cooperation with the team
• Show high quality focus in all aspects of the role: documentation, test definition and results, communication, processes

Reporting and collaboration

• The holder of the position reports directly to the Development Lead
• The candidate makes sure that the QA processes within the team are inline with the expectations of the SQA Manager
• The role requires collaboration with the team, the QA organisation, the Product Owners, and other stakeholders

Key competencies

• English language – fluent written and spoken
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Solid understanding of review and testing processes
• Demonstrated knowledge of SQL
• Strong coding skills in C# or Java language
• Test automation/test framework know-how
• Non-functional Testing knowledge
• IT infrastructure administration knowledge
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Independent and self-motivated personality
• Accurate and responsible working style
• Enjoys working in a multi-cultural environment
• Flexible and ingenuous

Preferable skills and competencies

• Knowledge and/or experience in finance industry is a plus

Education and qualifications

• Technical University degree or equivalent work experience
• ISTQB® Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL) Certificate or equivalent testing knowledge

Experience

Min. 6 years of experience in testing or development in Agile environment