Software Quality Engineer II - Mobile Product

Job Summary

We are Optimum, a leader in connectivity services, and we are seeking a passionate QA Automation Engineer to join our Product Development team. Your role will focus on automating our mobile products' end-to-end testing capabilities to achieve 80% automated test coverage.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to our software development tools roadmap to accelerate our development teams.
• Automate our end-to-end testing capabilities across all products including broadband, video, customer support and technician support tools to 80% automated test coverage.
• Develop and maintain automated test scripts and frameworks (in Java or Python) to enhance testing efficiency and coverage.
• Implement appropriate tools for automation.
• Introduce capabilities to do effective A/B testing of releases across test populations.
• Leverage developer tools and test automation to transform our software release processes and enable the development teams to go fast.
• Contribute to a structured knowledge base (Atlassian Confluence) that allows teams to create, maintain and extend documentation for all our developer tools and processes.
• Implement tools to identify, document and track software defects (Qase/Jira).
• Work closely with the development teams to resolve issues and ensure timely fixes.
• Lead process improvement initiatives to enhance testing practices, tools, and metrologies.
• Implement tools to monitor and report on key quality metrics including defect rates, test coverage and test execution progress.
• Ability to make/maintain API suites a must!
• Establish and gain acceptance for Key Results indicated by our development pipeline and automation test frameworks.
• Use prototypes and proof of concepts as the primary tool for deep and detailed explorations of architecture and software designs.
• Go-to advocate for automation in the organization.
• Continue to make Optimum a Developer Friendly Environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field or equivalent experience
• Minimum 5 years of experience in software development, automation, and tools with at least 3 years experience in mobile automation
• Proficiency in variety of programming languages (Python or Java is a must, JS or Go is a nice to have)
• Experience with Google cloud or Amazon Web Services and their capabilities
• Thorough understanding of software methodologies and DevOps practices
• Experience with the implementation and optimization CI/CD Pipelines
• Experience with the automation of test cases
• Good intuition for software design, actively looking to learn from other teams and projects
• Demonstrated experience solving performance and data issues by applying experience/knowledge
• Completely comfortable working with live production systems, debugging issues and taking careful actions with protections against damage
• Contributes to establishing and maintaining corporate policies related to technology
• Familiarity with AI Tools and AI First mindset