Job Description:
Here at Rakuten Kobo Inc. we offer a casual working start-up environment and a group of friendly and talented individuals. Our employees rank us highly in terms of commitment to work/life balance. We realize that for our people to be innovative, creative and passionate they need to feel valued and supported. We believe in rewarding all our employees with competitive salaries, performance based annual bonuses, and training opportunities.
If you’re looking for a company that inspires passion, personal, and professional growth – join Kobo and come help us on our mission of making reading lives better.
The Role:
Rakuten Kobo is looking for an Automation Engineer to join our amazing Rendering team on a 12 month contract!
You will be joining one of our development teams to deliver awesome new features for our many users to enjoy.
Our engineers are enthusiastic and operate across the development spectrum, from front-end to back-end to CI/CD and infrastructure. We take full responsibility for our work, from requirements gathering and solutioning, to implementation and testing, to deploying and monitoring how our code behaves in front of real customers. Kobo is looking for an Automation engineer who shares these passions and is proud of the work they do.
Reporting to the Manager, Technology Delivery, the Automation Engineer plays a vital role in all aspects of delivery from design, planning and implementation through to releasing and monitoring.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain automated test scripts for our web applications
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand product requirements and create comprehensive test plans
- Conduct automated testing to identify software defects, ensuring thorough test coverage
- Perform regression testing to validate software stability after changes or updates
- Collaborate with developers to troubleshoot and resolve issues, providing detailed bug reports
- Monitoring the health of the application after release
The Skillset:
Required:
- Proven experience as a QA automation engineer with a focus on web development
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript and experience with testing frameworks such as WebDriver.io, Selenium, Cypress
- Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle and agile methodologies
- Experience with Git
- Experienced and knowledgeable in CI/CD and different testing strategies and techniques (Unit, Integration, UI tests)
- Comfortable with and enthusiastic about learning new technologies
Nice to Haves:
- Performance testing
- Knowledge of API testing using tools like Postman
- Bash, Shell scripting
- Working with GitLab, GitHub, AzDo
About Rakuten Kobo Inc.
Owned by Tokyo-based Rakuten and headquartered in Toronto, Rakuten Kobo Inc. is one of the most advanced global ecommerce companies, with the world’s most innovative eReading services offering more than 6 million eBooks and audiobooks to 30 million + customers in 190 countries. Kobo delivers the best digital reading experience through creative innovation, award-winning eReaders, and top-ranking mobile apps. Kobo is a part of the Rakuten group of companies.
Rakuten Kobo Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Accessibility accommodations for candidates with disabilities participating in the selection process are available on request. Any information received related to accommodation needs of applicants will be addressed confidentially.
Rakuten Kobo would like to thank all applicants for their interest in this role however only qualified candidates will be shortlisted.
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What We Do
Rakuten Kobo Inc. is the world’s only dedicated digital bookseller.
Owned by Tokyo-based Rakuten and headquartered in Toronto, Kobo enables more than 30 million readers worldwide to read anytime, anywhere and on any device.
With our award-winning eReaders and the free Kobo App for smartphones and tablets, Kobo is your portable reading world
