Automation QA Engineer | Join our Talent Community

Company Description

We Dream. We Do. We Deliver.

About Merkle

Merkle, a dentsu company, powers the experience economy. For more than 35 years, the company has put people at the heart of its approach to digital business transformation. As the only integrated experience consultancy in the world with a heritage in data science and business performance, Merkle delivers holistic, end-to-end experiences that drive growth, engagement, and loyalty.

Merkle’s expertise has earned recognition as a “Leader” by top industry analyst firms, in categories such as digital transformation and commerce, experience design, engineering and technology integration, digital marketing, data science, CRM and loyalty, and customer data management. With more than 16,000 employees, Merkle operates in 30+ countries throughout the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. For more information, visit www.merkle.com.

Our team is expanding and we are looking for Automation QA Engineers to join our Talent Community.

Please apply to this ad if you would like to be considered for our Automation QA Engineer Talent Community, and to be kept in the loop on future job openings in our team.

We have hybrid offices in Zurich, St. Gallen, Geneva and Lausanne.

Job Description

What is your role?

• Develop automated tests
• Work with common test automation frameworks and tools
• Integrate with CI/CD tools and pipeline (i.e. Jenkins)
• Identify potential quality risks.
• Analyze results and report defects
• Work within an Agile development environment
• Collaborate with colleagues onshore and offshore daily

Qualifications

What should you have?

• 3+ years of commercial experience in testing Web and Client/Server applications
• Experience with automated testing tools will be a huge advantage (for example Selenium, Cucumber, Postman)
• Experience with the best practices in creating system test scripts, test execution and defect reporting/tracking
• Experience in testing web applications across different platforms and browsers
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Git, Jenkins
• Knowledge of SQL, PLSQL
• Troubleshoot and cause skills
• Collaborate with a team on urgent issues resolution
• Understanding of the following Web technologies: HTTP(S), S/FTP, Web Services (SOAP, RESTful)
• Have contagious passion about quality
• Very good verbal and written English

Desirable Experience:

• Understanding of performance testing principles and best practices
• Good programming skills in one of the following languages: JAVA, PHP, JavaScript, C++ and understanding of OOP principles, data structures
• Experience of web usability, i18n and accessibility testing and the corresponding tools
• Understanding of the principles of Agile software development
• Knowledge in some main Internet and e-commerce principles such as: SEO, Web Analytics, Geotargeting, CDN
• Very good German or French is a plus

Additional Information

We work with motivated people, who support and enrich each other. We live the possibilities of the digital world through home office, meaning you can work anywhere (within Switzerland) with flexible (annual) working hours. We also value face-to-face exchanges - coffee or tea, biscuits or fruit are all welcomed on board and shared throughout our offices.

If you ever feel the need to take a break from the digital world, we love to get hands-on together and use pens, paper, and whiteboards for brainstorming sessions. Need to clear your head? Hit the foosball table, PlayStation, massage bench or yoga mat. For networking and (brain) food, we offer regular exchange formats, like meetings, tech labs and more. Not enough? We are full believers in education and support training, whether it be internally or externally. We support you.

These are some of the things we offer:

• 40-hour week & overtime compensation
• Independent home office management
• Flexible working hours model (flextime)
• Additional days-off on top of holidays (wellness days, volunteer days)
• State-of-the-art, creative office space with ergonomically equipped workstations
• Wide range of further education and development opportunities through our in-house Academy
• Various discounts e.g. for lunch options

We value diversity and therefore welcome all applications - regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion/worldview, disability, age, as well as sexual orientation and identity.

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