This role is responsible for developing and executing exploratory and automated tests to ensure product quality. They are responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining automation frameworks and test scripts for software applications. You must have strong technical capabilities and a good knowledge of coding languages, such as Java, Java script & Python. The primary responsibility of an automation engineer is to automate the testing of web, mobile, and desktop applications using tools such as Selenium, Appium, and other relevant tools. Extensive experience in solving complex technical problems and troubleshooting is a must
Responsibility
- Must be an individual contributor and should manage tasks with minimum guidance
- Perform automated regression testing, performance testing, and other types of testing as required
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure quality of the software product
- Develop and maintain automation frameworks using tools such as Selenium, Appium, or other relevant tools
- Continuously improve the automation framework and test suite to increase efficiency and reduce maintenance efforts
- Work with manual testing teams to automate manual test cases and integrate them into the automation framework
- Stay up to date with the latest tools, technologies, and best practices in automation testing
- Provide guidance and support to manual testing team members on test automation best practices
- Track quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and Defect leakage.
- Identify, isolate, and track bugs throughout testing
- Provide summary and detailed Test Execution report to Test Manager.
Required Competency
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, IT or similar technical field
- 5-7 years of experience in UI test automation for progressive web apps and native mobile apps preferably iOS and Android
- Proficient in Selenium, Appium, TestNG, HP UFT and other latest tools and technologies
- Strong experience in building automation framework from scratch
- Strong programming skills in Java, Python, or any other language
- Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, and working experience in latest Test tools (Azure DevOps / JIRA /ALM)
- Good experience in maintaining Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD/CT) pipelines
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Must have good communication skills (verbal and written) to be able articulate the problem statement and follow up on getting resolution affirmatively
- Retail and e-commerce knowledge would be a value-add
Top Skills
What We Do
Founded in 1973 in Bahrain, Landmark Group has grown to become one of the largest and most successful omnichannel retail and hospitality conglomerates, with presence across 17 countries in the Middle East, Africa, India and Southeast Asia. Based in the UAE since 1990, the Group owns and operates 21 established homegrown and 4 franchise brands across an extensive network of more than 2,200 outlets, encompassing a gross leasable area of 30 million square feet.
Landmark Group's success is driven by its diverse portfolio of established brands, across multiple retail categories, offering a comprehensive range of products across fashion, home, groceries and electronics. These include Centrepoint, Max Fashion, Home Centre, Babyshop, Splash, Shoemart, Lifestyle, Viva, Emax, Home Box, Styli, Shoexpress, Spar and Easybuy.
Beyond retail, Landmark Group has diversified into the leisure, fitness and hospitality sectors with brands like Fitness First, Citymax, Fun City, Fun Ville, Zafran and Carluccio’s. The Group boasts unparalleled logistics capabilities, owning the MENA region's largest privately-owned distribution hub - Omega Logistics and Logistiq, which offers state-of-the-art third-party logistics services.
Landmark Group places a strong emphasis on delivering exceptional value and achieving customer satisfaction throughout its comprehensive product range. Across its loyalty programmes, the Group enjoys a loyal customer base with more than 35 million active users.
The company has a dedicated workforce of more than 53,000 employees and continues to be certified as a Great Place to Work (GPTW) since 2017.
