Senior QA Automation Engineer

When you join Verizon

Verizon is one of the world’s leading providers of technology and communications services, transforming the way we connect across the globe. We’re a diverse network of people driven by our shared ambition to shape a better future. Here, we have the ability to learn and grow at the speed of technology, and the space to create within every role. Together, we are moving the world forward – and you can too. Dream it. Build it. Do it here.

What you’ll be doing...

Verizon Connect is guiding a connected world on the go by automating, optimizing and revolutionizing the way people, vehicles and things move through the world. Our full suite of industry-defining solutions and services put innovation, automation and connected data to work for customers and help them be safer, more efficient and more productive. With more than 3,500 dedicated employees in 15 countries, we deliver leading mobile technology platforms and solutions.

As a SAAS leader, we know our talent is the most important component of our success. We hire top talent and empower them to do their best work. As a division of Verizon, we combine the fun and excitement of a startup environment with the resources, operational excellence, and brand recognition of an established tech giant.

Working at our Dublin office, you will be part of a cross-functional engineering team delivering key features for our award-winning SAAS offering, Reveal. As a Senior QA engineer you will be working directly with UX, BA and full stack engineers to deliver coded automated tests for browser and mobile based applications in a CI/CD environment, following Kanban methodologies.

Responsibilities:

• Coded automation testing.
• Test case development based on functional and technical requirements.
• Set up and monitoring of automation test suites as part of CI/CD pipeline.
• Working directly with our architecture team defining best in class automation test tools and frameworks.
• Working with product and engineering team members defining and managing feature backlogs.
• Maintaining bug backlogs - triaging and prioritizing with stakeholders.
• Advocate for QA and defining/maintaining quality standards within your team.
• Coaching / Mentoring junior developers.

What we’re looking for...

You are a passionate software developer with a strong interest in new and emerging technologies and the confidence to influence the technical direction on projects. You possess excellent communication skills both written and oral, and are comfortable presenting to their team and wider groups.

You'll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or relevant work experience.
• Four or more years of experience in software development.
• Experience in agile/lean methodologies and processes (ideally Kanban or scrum) leading process improvements and engineering disciplines.
• Experience in leading systems analysis with application design individually and with an architecture team to deliver detailed application specifications.
• Experience leading and /or guiding a team.
• Experience mentoring junior developers.
• Experience working in enterprise project and team environments with product, application support and operations teams.
• Experience in Unit Testing.
• Experience of testing fundamentals and best practices - development of test cases, edge case and boundary testing, smoke tests, regression tests and defining/testing non-functional application requirements.
• Fouror more years’ experience in coded test automation in C# (ideally .Net Core)
• Experience using Selenium Web Driver 2/3 and Visual Studio delivering coded automation tests.
• Experience developing test automation frameworks.
• Experience in a CI/CD environment maintaining ‘green board’’ policies, and driving test coverage statistics and defect reporting.
• Advanced level of Object Oriented/SOLID Design principles and practices and their application as design patterns in automated testing.
• Commercial experience using mobile automation tools such as Appium.
• Cross browser testing experience.
• Experience with Multi-Threading and parallel testing.
• SQL experience for data set up and verification - in high volume, high throughput environments.
• Experience with test case management tools such as Test Rail.
• Experience testing RESTful API architectures through code-based testing.
• Experience testing Microservices or Service Oriented Architectures.
• Experience reading and understanding production code to aid in test generation process.
• Experience managing defect backlogs and requirements management with tools such as JIRA.
• Experience with GIT or related source control tools.

Even better if you have:

• A degree in computer science or relevant discipline.
• Demonstrated delivery of major projects with a focus on quality and productivity.
• Experience coaching, mentoring and influencing colleagues through testing strategies and implementations.
• Advanced knowledge of Mobile and Web UI / Browser based testing on modern UI frameworks
• Advocate/ambassador of clean code practices and processes.
• Demonstrated performance testing experience (JUnit, Loadrunner or other tools)
• Knowledge of Test-Driven Development and Domain Driven Design.

Diversity & Inclusion

We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer. At Verizon, we know that diversity makes us stronger. We are committed to a collaborative, inclusive environment that encourages authenticity and fosters a sense of belonging. We strive for everyone to feel valued, connected, and empowered to reach their potential and contribute their best. Check out our diversity and inclusion page to learn more.

COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement

Please note, in countries where there is a COVID-19 related government order or rule, Verizon is required to ensure that all employees accessing our workplace comply with these mandatory requirements. If you work in one of these locations, you will be required to provide us with your vaccination status prior to joining. If this, or any other COVID related requirement applies in your location, we will notify you about this before you start work.