Senior Automation QA Engineer

About Tekion:

Positively disrupting an industry that has not seen any innovation in over 50 years, Tekion has challenged the paradigm with the first and fastest cloud-native automotive platform that includes the revolutionary Automotive Retail Cloud (ARC) for retailers, Automotive Enterprise Cloud (AEC) for manufacturers and other large automotive enterprises and Automotive Partner Cloud (APC) for technology and industry partners. Tekion connects the entire spectrum of the automotive retail ecosystem through one seamless platform. The transformative platform uses cutting-edge technology, big data, machine learning, and AI to seamlessly bring together OEMs, retailers/dealers and consumers. With its highly configurable integration and greater customer engagement capabilities, Tekion is enabling the best automotive retail experiences ever. Tekion employs close to 3,000 people across North America, Asia and Europe.

The test engineering team drives product and engineering quality via test frameworks, test automation infrastructure, test coaching, as well as deep product domain expertise and partnering with software engineers on test plans and test automation. Its main objective is enabling the testing efforts of the delivery teams.  

 This Includes: 

• Creating or reviewing test plans. 

• Creating and maintaining test infrastructure. 

• Creating and maintaining test frameworks. 

• Coaching engineers on (manual and automated) testing and quality best practices. 

• Building up domain knowledge as part of the delivery teams. 

• Understand, challenge and review backend and client code. 

• Automating test scenarios.  

You Will: 

• Work with business stakeholders to identify, propose, prioritize, automate and execute test plans and test cases. 

• Be hands-on in planning and running necessary tests, identifying and triaging issues and driving issues to resolution, and communicating the testing status to everyone. 

• Manage and maintain the releases. Help to ensure that every release happens in a timely manner with a high level of quality. 

• Create and support test and release pipelines in our CI, build monitors and test reporting. 
• Work closely with product managers and developers in an agile environment. 

You Have: 

• A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent. 

• 5 years - 7.5 years relevant work experience in an engineering and/or Automation QA testing role. 

• Experience in automated testing of web & mobile applications. 

• Strong programming skills in a common language like Java. 

• Experience on testing microservices on AWS. 

• Experience using UI automation frameworks like Selenium, XCUITest, Appium. 

• Experience automating API tests using tools like Postman, Rest-Assured, Karate or similar. 
   Add-ons:
• Experience in contract testing using Pact or similar frameworks.
• Familiarity with Docker.
• Experience in performance, security and usability testing. 

Tekion is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, victim of violence or having a family member who is a victim of violence, the intersectionality of two or more protected categories, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. 

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