QA automation engineer
Gauge and Selenium test automation suite
Context
You join the quality assurance team to maintain and extend an automated end to end test suite built on Gauge, for executable specifications, and Selenium WebDriver, for browser control. The suite runs in GitLab CI on every release, acting both as the regression safety net and as the living documentation of expected product behaviour.
Beyond this automated scope, you will also be assigned manual testing work, so the role is deliberately not a pure automation position.
Responsibilities
- Write Gauge specifications from user stories and acceptance criteria, using reusable and parameterised steps that non technical readers can follow.
- Implement and maintain step implementations, Page Objects and Selenium locators as the interfaces evolve.
- Design and maintain test data and configuration files in YAML, and keep the GitLab CI pipelines green.
- Run campaigns on development, staging and pre production environments through Gauge environment profiles.
- Take on manual testing assignments that stand apart from the automation suite.
- Analyse execution reports, qualify each failure as an application defect, a test issue or environment instability, and raise clear reproducible bug tickets.
- Stabilise flaky tests through explicit waits, proper synchronisation and test data isolation.
- Take part in agile ceremonies, review test code and run exploratory testing on what is not yet automated.
Required skills
- Gauge: specifications, concepts, parameterised steps, tags and environment profiles. An equivalent BDD framework such as Cucumber, SpecFlow or Behave is accepted with a genuine appetite for Gauge.
- Selenium WebDriver: element location strategies, explicit waits and the Page Object pattern.
- Web fundamentals: HTML and the DOM, basic CSS, HTTP methods and status codes, browser developer tools.
- Programming: working level in the language of the suite, such as Java, JavaScript, Python or C#, enough to write clean step implementations.
- GitLab: branches, merge requests, simple conflict resolution, and GitLab CI pipelines described in YAML.
- Testing experience, manual or automated, is required, together with a solid grasp of test design: happy path and sad path coverage, negative cases, boundary values, error handling and regression strategy. A suite that only proves the nominal scenario proves very little.
- Defect managementwith Jira, Xray, TestRail or an equivalent, in an agile delivery context.
- Fluent English, written and spoken. Mandatory and non negotiable.English is the day to day working language for specifications, tickets, documentation and meetings, and it is assessed during the recruitment process.
Nice to have
ISTQB Foundation certification, API testing with Postman or REST Assured, Docker and Selenium Grid, SQL for test data preparation, performance or accessib
Team : Quality assurance
Contract : Permanent, hybrid
Experience : 1 to 3 years in testing, manual or automated
Skills Required
- Gauge experience, including specifications, parameterized steps, tags, and environment profiles; equivalent BDD experience with willingness to learn Gauge accepted.
- Selenium WebDriver experience with element location strategies, explicit waits, and the Page Object pattern.
- Working-level programming ability in Java, JavaScript, Python, C#, or the language used by the test suite.
- Knowledge of HTML, the DOM, basic CSS, HTTP methods and status codes, and browser developer tools.
- GitLab experience including branches, merge requests, conflict resolution, and GitLab CI pipelines defined in YAML.
- Manual or automated testing experience with knowledge of test design, negative cases, boundary values, error handling, and regression strategy.
- Defect management experience with Jira, Xray, TestRail, or an equivalent tool in an agile delivery context.
- Fluent written and spoken English.
- One to three years of manual or automated testing experience.
- ISTQB Foundation certification.
- API testing experience with Postman or REST Assured.
- Docker and Selenium Grid experience.
- SQL knowledge for test data preparation.
- Performance or accessibility testing experience.
What We Do
Questel is a true end-to-end intellectual property solutions provider serving 20,000 organizations in more than 30 countries for the optimal management of their IP assets portfolio. Whether for patent, trademark, domain name, or design, Questel provides its customers with the software, tech-enabled services, and consulting services necessary to give them a strategic advantage. We use state-of-the-art technology such as artificial intelligence, big data, or blockchain, powered by an unparalleled network of international experts, to optimize the maintenance of any IP asset while streamlining the internal processes of our corporate and law firm clientele. These solutions, when combined with our IP cost management platform, deliver clients an average savings of 30-60% across the entire prosecution budget. Beyond IP, Questel’s mission is to facilitate the development of innovation in an efficient, secure, and sustainable way
