Associate Test Automation Engineer

About us

We’re on a mission to make app building so easy everyone can do it – regardless of their background, tech knowledge or budget.  We’ve already helped thousands of entrepreneurs, small businesses and even global brands, like the BBC, Makro and Pepsi achieve their software goals and we’ve only just started. 

Builder.ai was voted as one of 2023’s ‘Most Innovative Companies in AI’ by Fast Company, and won Europas 2022 ‘Scaleup of the Year’. Our team has grown to over 800 people across the world and our recent announcement of $250m Series D funding (and partnership with Microsoft) means there’s never been a more exciting time to become a Builder.

Life at Builder

At Builder.ai we encourage you to experiment! Each role at Builder has unlimited opportunities to learn, progress and challenge the status quo. We want you to help us become even better at supporting our customers and take AI app building to new heights.

Our global team is diverse, collaborative and exceptionally talented. We hire people for their differences but all unite with our shared belief in Builder’s HEARTT values: (Heart, Entrepreneurship, Accountability, Respect, Trust and Transparency) and a let’s-get-stuff-done attitude.

In return for your skills and commitment, we offer a range of great perks, from hybrid working and a variable annual bonus, to employee stock options, generous paid leave, and trips abroad #WhatWillYouBuild

Why We Need This Role

We are looking for a technologist to help us achieve and maintain maximum potential in areas of scale, automation, security, and fault tolerance. This includes everything from multi-cloud application deployment to performance optimisation, orchestration and continuity.

Why You Should Join

This is a challenging and diverse role that requires you to build the platform and deployment tooling, nearly from the ground up. Only join this role if you are craving rapid growth, able to create a path in unchartered territory, and comfortable with trying, failing and course-correcting fast.

• Work closely with engineering teams to develop and extend automated test coverage.
• Develop Automation tests; writing test scripts, analyze test cases, and reporting.
• Hands on experience in writing API and UI Automation tests
• Creates traceability records, from manual test cases to automation tests and back to requirements
• Work closely with team members to understand automation requirements and provide a automation service
• Provides regular quality reports on test progress, anomalies, risks and issues associated with project testing
• Actively participate in agile ceremonies providing the QA perspective and input into every user story and refinement session.
• Takes delivery as primary responsibility and must have a can do attitude in Manual testing if need arises.

• Minimum 2-4 years in test automation, ideally with a background in software engineering.
• Develop and extend automated tests as part of the development workflow.
• Experience in automating tests at API & UI level and improving testing effectiveness.
• Practical experience with high level programming languages, in particular Python, Ruby or TypeScript JS.
• A good understanding of testing RESTful APIs as a mandate for this position.
• Expertise in the end-to-end software development life cycle.
• Experience with good development practices (repository management tools (git), versioning, clean code, package management).
• Collaborative and team oriented individual.
• Ability to triage problems, prioritize accordingly and take corrective actions.
• Passion for eliminating repetitive manual processes using automation.