Automation Software Engineer III

The Role:

The Automation Software Engineer III is a position withing the development team responsible for designing, developing, and executing automated tests to ensure the quality and reliability of the proprietary Platform Software. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including software developers, QA engineers and product owner, to identify test requirements and develop effective test strategies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and maintain automated test scripts.
• Execute automated tests and analyze test results to identify defects, inconsistencies, and performance issues.
• Design, develop and maintain automation framework
• Drive root cause analysis and fix software defects found.
• Provide guidance and support to other Automation Software Engineers.
• Review other´s designs, code changes and test scripts
• Collaborate with other engineers to improve testing processes, tools, and methodologies.
• Collaborate with product owner to understand requirements, identify test scenarios, and define acceptance criteria.
• Ensure on-time delivery of agreed milestones and deliverables.
• Be a quick learner of the internal framework.

Requirements:

• 5+ year experience automation developing using Python or Java.
• Experience with Behavior Driven Development
• Experience with Object Oriented Design, database interaction and services communication.
• Experience as a senior developer with design responsibilities.
• Advanced Oral communication skills both in Spanish and English.
• Advanced Written communication skills both in Spanish and English.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience in software development using C++ or C#.
• Experience with Pytest or similar testing framework.
• Experience in gRPC as a way to communicate services
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines for test automation.
• Experience in the Retail industry, electronic payment systems, and/or Point-Of-Sale systems.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies.

Skills / Abilities:

• General
  • Requires in-depth knowledge and experience.
  • Uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external business issues to improve products or services and processes.
  • Solves complex problems; takes a new perspective using existing solutions.
  • Works independently, receives minimal guidance, and can guide the work of small groups of other Software professionals.
  • Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience.
  • Does coding of solutions as per design guidelines, independently.
  • Does propose designs for modules and sub-modules for solutions under guidance from Architect.
  • Learns to understand the customer needs and system solution capability to solve customer needs.
  • Proposes changes needed in the system.

• Functional Knowledge
  • Requires conceptual and practical expertise in own discipline and basic knowledge of related disciplines.
  • Understands and works with other SW professionals to integrate work.
  • Extensive experience working in an Agile SW development lifecycle and can function as a Scrum Master or lead daily stand-ups, Sprint Planning, and Sprint Retrospectives.
  • Understands how to work across Scrum teams to deliver a project, may Lead a Scrum of Scrums if needed, and can mentor other team members.
  • Implement and recommend best coding practices, understands to minimize bugs and errors in implementation.
  • Propose standardized way to implement, platform capabilities, design principals, put standard work around it.

• Business Expertise
  • Has knowledge of best practices and how own area integrated with others.
  • Is aware of the competition and the factors that differentiate them in the market.

• Leadership
  • Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience.
  • May lead small projects with manageable risks and resource requirements.

• Problem Solving
  • Solves complex problems; takes a new perspective on existing solutions; exercises judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information.

• Interpersonal Skills
  • Explains difficult or sensitive information in a way that is understandable by all stakeholders.
  • Works to build consensus.

• Specification/Design
  • Partner with product management, product owners, and architects to create software specification and design artifacts.
  • Ability in UX design, designing for medium to large projects independently.
  • Ability to design or enhance automation frameworks for SW components and ensure SW design is adapted to enable automation.
  • Understand sub-systems in the overall architecture and interaction between various sub-systems. Leverage that deep knowledge to ensure designs are designed for quality, performance, reliability, and scalability.

• Implementation
  • Ability to Implement Test-driven development (TDD) approach and coach the team.
  • Ability to develop rest apis and SQL queries (Complex queries)
  • Ability to create cloud services and coach the team.
  • Ability to use a CI/CD pipeline to deploy applications on cloud (AWS, pcf, azure....)
  • Ability to implement authentication methods. (LDAP, OAuth, OAuth2.0 etc....)
  • Ability to adhere to coding standards and create software documentation.
  • Ability to work without guidance on medium to high complexity algorithms features, and non-functional requirements.
  • Ability to develop or maintain new automation to align with SW architecture and design.
  • Establish code repository and integrate with continuous build environments.

• Verification
  • Design and implement unit and functional test framework for the SW component or project.
  • Verify code quality for all the modules. Knowledgeable about automated testing tools and procedures.
  • Integrate automated tests to the CICD pipeline to enable continuous integration and testing.
  • Work across teams to enable CI/T for the project.
  • Participate in the selection of new development and automation tools.
  • Should be able to review own work without PRTI and do unit testing.
  • Should be able to do performance testing of the software.

• Technical Support
  • Should be able to identify and fix issues in multiple modules and their interfaces.
  • Should be able to identify root cause of complex issues that impact functionality and performance.

• Architecture
  • Understands principles of Software architecture including Embedded platforms, IoT and cloud.
  • Support preparation and implementation of technical architecture with guidance from Architects and Experts. Ability to apply knowledge acquired through training in new technology.

• Project Leadership
  • Drives Sprint planning with the team, involved in backlog refinement with Product Owners, task assignments and provides leadership to the team.
  • Supports Program Increment / release planning and management, participates in Scrum of Scrums.

• Strategic Thinking
  • Understanding of current capabilities and architecture.
  • Understanding business needs and market trends.
  • Work with Product Owners and Product Management to suggest new features for the product roadmap and how we might leverage new technologies.

• Customer Touch Points
  • Ability to interact with internal customers. Understand pain points, device solutions and engage in customer training.
  • Work with Product Owners to review and gather external VOC via demos and customer lab support.
  • Analyze trends to improve user story refinement, design reviews, backlog prioritization, and acceptance criteria.

• Mentoring
  • Coach team members on software solutions and processes.