Senior Test Automation Engineer

About us

Innovation is fuelled by the power of possibilities. A few years ago, it was virtually impossible to innovate because building software needed a degree, it was simply too expensive, too complex, too risky and ultimately too inefficient. That’s why only 16% of projects were ever done on budget and 78% failed.

We're changing that. We’re flipping software development on its head and kicking out the notion that you need to be an expert or do boot camps to learn how to make your app. Builder.ai’s platform lets you order the perfect software app for whatever problem you’re trying to solve. Our AI powered assembly line brings together Lego-like reusable features and experts from around the world to bring world-class ideas to life – ANYONE’s world-class ideas.

Building software needs to be like ordering pizza – pick what you want, get recommendations for the features you need and simply wait till it's cooked and ready for you.

Our human-assisted AI platform helps anyone build, run & scale tailor-made software. Everyone from the bakery in Riyadh and nursery in London, to large fortune 100 companies like the BBC or Pepsi.

Life at Builder

It’s a place where everything moves at lightning pace and most definitely not for the faint hearted. We celebrate diversity, push everyone to do more with less and yet provide a culture that allows everyone to experiment, push boundaries and learn by doing. Every Builder runs to our core value system of HEARTT (Heart, Entrepreneurship, Accountability, Respect, Trust & Transparency) and we’re always looking for team players, with a point of view, a sense of humility and a let’s-get-stuff-done attitude.

Our scale up is at the intersection of a quirky startup where designers and machine learning specialists work on problems together to savvy commercial teams working with finance folks to invent new business models. #WhatWouldYouBuild
We are looking for a technical leader to help us achieve and maintain maximum potential in areas of rapid software delivery, automation, security, and quality.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with engineering teams to develop and extend automated test coverage.
• Be an evangelist for quality, above and beyond the status quo.
• Optimize test cases on each level to improve stability and performance.
• Develop Automation test strategies; writing test plans, test cases, test tools, executing your plan, and reporting.
• Mentor peers on API and UI Automation and advise on issues.
• Creates traceability records, from test cases back to requirements
• Work closely with team members to understand automation requirements and provide a strong 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 5 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 Unit, API, UI, non-UI level and improving testing effectiveness.
• Experience with Robot Framework.
• Practical experience with high level programming languages, in particular Python, Ruby or TypeScript JS.
• Experience with executing automation tests on CI/CD as part of the software delivery workflow.
• Confident in creating automation frameworks using a modern language (Ruby, Python or TypeScript JS), writing tests for web applications and RESTful Api services in code.
• A good understanding of testing RESTful APIs.
• Expertise in the end-to-end software development life cycle.
• Experience working in a Linux based environment.
• Experience with good development practices (repository management tools (git), versioning, clean code, package management).
• Collaborative and team oriented individual.
• Ability to investigate, debug and triage difficult problems and independently work towards results.
• Ability to triage problems, prioritize accordingly and take corrective actions.
• Passion for eliminating repetitive manual processes using automation.

Nice to Have

• Experience with BDD frameworks (Cucumber/Gherkin/Calabash)
• Experience with GitLab CI.
• Experience with Selenium webdriver (Python).
• Experience with RSpec.
• Practical experience with Non-Functional testing like Performance and Security tests.
• Experience working with mocks and stubs.
• Good understanding of database technologies.
• Experience working in a Cloud based environment.