Automation Engineer

Expleo is a trusted partner for end-to-end, integrated engineering, quality services and management consulting for digital transformation. We help businesses harness unrelenting technological change to successfully deliver innovations that will help them gain a competitive advantage and improve the everyday lives of people around the globe. We operate in over 25 countries.

Works independently taking full responsibility for a certain area. Works on quality engineering projects using available frameworks and tools and establishing plans for projects with on-time and on-budget project goals. Primary role in Quality Engineering in the areas of analysis and design, implementation and system integration, and execution, in line with agreed plans and strategies.

• Works on multiple phases of a project and/or multiple small projects of moderate scope and sometimes complex assignments.
  Selects appropriate standards, methods, tools and applications for project use.
• Creates and executes basic non-functional test scripts following a given set of guidelines and sets up test environments, data and monitors.
• Designs, codes, tests and documents simple programs or scripts and assist in the implementation of software which forms part of a properly engineered system.
• Accurately identifies project risks and reports effectively to relevant stakeholders Manages issues, risks, actions, dependencies, and defects to the success of the project.
• Coordinates the information gathering and reporting process, conducting research to define problems and preparing responses to anticipated questions.
• Creates traceability records, from test cases back to requirements. Reports on system quality and collects metrics on test cases.
• Maintains the status of project and provides guidance to the work of junior team members, works across teams to achieve group goals.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience.

Desirable:

• ISTQB Foundation.
• Certification in NFT tools such as LoadRunner, LoadUI, MSVS, Fortify, etc.
• Additional learnings or certification in Quality Engineering, such as CISSP and CISM.

• Experience and knowledge in NFT, performance and test automation tools such as Performance Center/LoadRunner/StormRunner, LoadUI, JMeter, Neoload, BlazeMeter, SilkTest, Service Virtualisation, Jenkins, Selenium, UFT, Cucumber, Gherkin, TOSCA, BurpSuite, Fortify, Rational, ALM, Jira, etc.
• Intermediate theoretical knowledge in quality engineering methodologies and has awareness of opportunities provided by new and emerging technologies/products.
• Has good applications/technology knowledge and problem solving skills, building on specialist domain knowledge and has practical experience of engineering tools and platforms required to deliver.
• Proficient in at least one programming language (ideally VB, Java or C#) and script language (i.e. Shell, Perl).
• Knowledge of Cloud concepts and virtualisation.
• Client-facing ability and quality verbal and written communication.
• Ability to self-manage and be adaptable.

• Demonstrates a professional attitude, with a reputation as a trusted advisor.
• Experience in developing partnerships with the team and client and collaborating with others to exceed client expectations.
• Experience in proposing different options and solutions for approaching and resolving issues.
• Ability to own and track an issue to resolution by analysing and reaching out to relevant technical stakeholders and support with debugging issues.
• Responds positively to changing business issues and sees change as an opportunity to improve performance.
• Ability to adapt style accordingly and demonstrates an understanding of the audience’s perspective.
• Uses discretion when dealing with sensitive information.
• Supports other team members and contributes to team success.
• Ability to set and work to quantified goals and standards.
• Has worked in a DevOps or Agile environment.
• Delivers by being aware of and considering the commercial impacts.
• Demonstrates flexibility, independence and self-motivation.
• Works well with both on-shore and off-shore teams.

At Expleo, we are committed to providing a competitive salary and substantial benefits offering with unique wellbeing, financial and employee recognition programmes.

We pride ourselves on our diverse and inclusive culture and offer a variety of family friendly policies and enhanced leave to help you achieve a healthy work life balance.

By providing significant learning and development opportunities, we encourage individual growth and success throughout your career with us.

• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
• Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
• Competitive company benefits such as medical and dental insurance, pension, life assurance, employee wellbeing programme, sports and social events, birthday hampers and much more!
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and question the status quo.

“We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age”.

At Expleo, we understand that many people experience impostor syndrome throughout their lifetime, please do not let this discourage you from applying for this role. Our Talent Acquisition Team welcomes all CV’s and will consider your application in line with the values, requirements and role competencies.