Test Automation Engineer

**About Astound Commerce**

Astound Commerce is a global digital commerce company that provides end-to-end services—from creating a data-driven strategy and delivering UX services to building an ecommerce solution for a variety of clients such as Adidas, Carters, Jimmy Choo, Puma and TOMS. With 20+ years' experience, 1,400+ ecommerce specialists, more than 3,000 projects completed, and dozens of industry accolades, we excel at maximizing the brand and business value of every digital commerce touchpoint. Astound Commerce currently operates in 14 countries with 20 offices worldwide.

**Job Purpose**

The Senior Test Automation Engineer will be part of a high-performance feature driven QA team responsible for building and testing complex e-commerce solutions. To achieve the best results in this role you should have a strong technical background combined with collaboration, communication, and mentorship skills to provide guidance and expertise throughout the entire software development lifecycle, ensuring the success of your team's efforts.

**In this role you will get to**
- Develop an automated testing approach and test scripts based on requirements-related artifacts
- Work with projects' leads in understanding business needs, defining technical issues, and proposing solutions
- Contribute to the development of automation testing approach, as well as design and/or platform architecture best practices
- Estimate Test Automation effort
- Ensure that test automation and/or QA-related project documentation and other artifacts of automated testing meet the agreed standards/guidelines and are kept up-to-date.
- Drive training standards for test automation engineers through collaboration with the engineering manager(s)
- Provide recommendations to Team Lead and/or Project Manager to improve Test Automation-related procedures, systems, and tools
- Provide automated testing coverage for assigned projects
- Support, educate, coach, onboard and help test automation engineers to come up with the best technical solutions

**Your skills and qualifications**
- 4+ years of experience in creating automated test case suites, automated test cases design and running
- Understanding Software Architecture and Design such as OOP and Design Patterns, UML
- Solid Java experience with Java SE, Java EE Web Services (REST), Guice, Json for Java, etc.
- Web technologies knowledge as HTML5, CSS, DOM, AJAX
- Solid experience with Selenium (WebDriver) architecture, patterns and approaches, Selenium Grid and Appium
- Solid experience with selector strategies (XPath, CSS selectors), frameworks (TestNG, jUnit), and build tools (Maven, Gradle)
- Knowledge of tools: IDEs, Jenkins, Chrome developer tools, Git, Code review tools, Jira, Confluence
- Experience in building automated testing/regression frameworks from scratch
- Experience with the estimation of test automation activities
- Excellent communication skills, as well as collaboration and mentoring skills
- English writing and speaking skills on Upper-Intermediate level or above

**What we offer in return**
- **Off-the-Charts Career Growth**: Сlear career path and a performance review system, career coaching, training and certifications, mentoring and knowledge sharing
- **Well-being Is Top Priority**: Parental leave, paid time off, comprehensive health and medical plans
- **Real Work-Life Balance**: In-office, or hybrid working modes; flexible hours; work-life balance support on every stage and level
- **Culture of Success**: Culture of collaboration that encourages innovation every step of the way; 20 offices spanning four continents bring diverse perspectives that drive tangible results for our clients worldwide

**Why work for Astound Commerce?**

Whether you're working directly with our world-renowned clients or with your Astound colleagues from around the globe, you will shape the future of digital commerce, using emerging technologies and innovative approaches.

**Grow your career with Astound Commerce, and discover exciting opportunities while doing the work you love