Sr QA/Test Automation Engineer (326)

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Ubiminds is a GPTW-certified, people-first company that partners with American software product companies to scale their development footprint. Ubi custom-curates Brazilian top 5% talent for their LATAM strategy, offering a unique combo of staff augmentation and employer-of-record services.

Ubiminds is assisting a company that is transforming the way organizations discover, engage, and hire the best talent. Connecting companies and candidates anytime, anywhere, end-to-end hiring platform features video interviewing, assessments, and conversational AI. As an industry leader in science-backed, modern hiring solutions powered by ethical AI, they has hosted more than 70 million video interviews and 200 million chat-based candidate engagements for over 1,200 pioneering customers around the globe.

Challenge

As a Senior QA/Test Automation Engineer , you will be responsible for the test automation and‬ manual testing efforts as part of a delivery team within the Engineering organization. This role‬‭ will primarily be focused on building a regression test suite in our automation framework while‬ providing manual test coverage as the need arises. You will be responsible for building test‬ automation for new features as well as covering gaps in automation for existing features, you‬ will also be required to make updates to the testing framework when needed. As part of‬ developing test automation for the product, you will be providing feedback on product design,‬ foreseeing and anticipating customer use cases for new features, understanding regression‬ testing needs and partnering with Engineering and Product on building out features and pushing‬ out bug fixes.‬

This role is also involved in enhancing our current Test Automation Framework which is built in‬ Python and Selenium to test our web applications and REST APIs and expanding the test suite‬ built on these frameworks.‬

“Partnerships and Workflow Automation” is a pillar of our business. By joining our Partnerships‬ and Workflow Automation product line, you will be critical to the success of our current and‬‭ future offerings in this realm. The technology stack is unique, fascinating, and evolved with‬‭ complexity that will challenge you. Driving QA automation solutions for this team that will‬ provide needed coverage as simply as possible will be the goal of your work.‬

What you'll do

- Understands existing Product areas in their Delivery Team and understanding how these‬‭ are being used by customers.‬‭‬‭

- For new features being built, foresee and anticipate how customers will use the‬‭ product (as intended or unintended) with focus on the user experience from functional‬‭ and performance perspective.‬‭‬‭

- Spends 50% of time writing Automated Tests.‬‭‬‭

- Develops Test Plans and Test Cases for assigned product areas and initiatives‬‭‬‭

- Reviews testing strategy with the team, gets feedback and continuously maintains the‬‭ test suite‬‭‬‭

- Works with other QA and QA Automation Engineers and takes ownership of achieving a‬‭ higher test automation coverage in feature areas assigned to them‬‭‬‭

- Demonstrates good knowledge of Test Automation best practices, languages and‬‭ libraries used for Test Automation.‬‭‬‭

- Collaborates with other QA Automation Engineers to prioritize test cases for Automation‬‭ and achieve maximum test automation coverage reasonable for their feature area‬‭‬‭

- Works with Product Managers and Designers to review and provide feedback for‬‭ requirements and designs for upcoming initiatives.‬‭‬‭

- Learns and follows company and Industry development, testing and test automation best‬‭ practices.‬‭‬‭

- Debugging and reproducing issues reported by end users, capturing the relevant details‬‭ necessary and communicating with the Delivery Team‬‭‬‭

- Understands and uses current testing strategies and architectural patterns in Test‬‭ Automation effectively.‬‬‭

- Communicates effectively with team members on:‬‭‬‭

- Test strategy‬‭‬‭ Blockers, critical issues‬‭‬‭

- Provides feedback on user experience‬‭‬‭

- Provides input on process improvements‬‭‬‭

- Discusses best practices the team could adopt

In order to succeed in this position, you will need:

Mandatory skills

- Advanced/fluent English skills – Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

 - 4+ years experience in the Quality Engineering field performing manual or automated

 testing or a combination of them.

 - 4+ years experience testing web and or mobile applications

 - 3+ year experience in using Selenium with Python for test automation

 - Experience testing REST APIs

 - Excellent problem solving and analytical skills

 - Experience with debugging and reporting issues reported by end users.

 - Experience writing basic to intermediate SQL queries

 - 1+ year experience with Rest API automation

Nice to have

- Experience testing internal, 3rd party and public API integrations strongly preferred.‬

- Experience using AWS for test validations

- Experience with using Pytest as a testing framework

- Experience with data preprocessing, transformation, and loading techniques.

- Understanding data storage and retrieval solutions

- Load testing experience

About Ubiminds

Cultural fit

- People First. We are all about people!

- Challenge yourself. There’s always room for improvement and continuous improvement is in our essence.

- Make it happen. Be ready to take challenges as they come. It’s all about attitude and commitment. 

- We’re in this together. We work as a team, we thrive as a team and we evolve as a team.

- Averaging on awesome. We work hard to deliver high-quality services and look forward to exceeding expectations. 

- Keep it real. We promise you honesty, transparency, and openness, regardless of the situation.

Perks and Benefits

As a Sr QA/Test Automation Engineer @Ubiminds, you:

- Are placed in a product-based company, with the same treatment as their full-time employees;

- Have our full back-office support, from career guidance to HR and concierge services;

- Enjoy our remote-first policy - we are a distributed team, after all;

- Get your own MacBook (none of that "bring your own device" stuff here);

- Have access to growth opportunities with other amazing technology professionals, through tech talks, chapter meetings, and even remote happy hours for tons of fun!

- Improve your English through free lessons with a native English speaker - get to the next level of your communication skills!

- Candidate Referral bonus (promote Ubi to your tech friends, and get paid for it!);

- Miss working in the office? Our cool Florianópolis headquarters is available, whenever you want, with weekly quick massages & tasty snacks, soft drinks, and games.

How our process works

1. An initial interview with the Tech Recruiter (specific chat about the job opening);

2. Client process (this may vary);

3. Offer.