Automation Engineer at Parallel Score

Parallel Score is a product development firm that develops data and user-centric solutions by leveraging design, engineering, and innovative thinking. We are a provocative product development agency that is focused on imagining and building highly-interactive and user- driven experiences that push the limits of user design and development.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Automation Engineer

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• Parallelscore is looking for a talented QA Automation Engineer to join our Quality Assurance team.
• As a QA Automation Engineer, you will be involved in all phases of the software development & testing lifecycle, from planning to post-deployment testing.
• We are also looking to expand our automated testing capabilities, so if you’re passionate about test automation, we want to hear from you!

Essentials Duties And Responsibilities

• Work closely with other teams to develop test strategies and scenarios for new and existing products.
• Help build out an automated testing framework while maintaining and enhance existing automated tests
• Establish and configure testing environments for executing test cases and scenarios
• Develop test plans & strategy for multiple applications
• Document software defects and proactively track progress to resolution
• Actively participate in regular software deployments to validate new features and identify regressions
• Participate in the development, deployment, and administration of QA process, tools, and supporting technologies
• Plan test schedules and strategies in accordance with project scope and delivery dates.
• Maintain databases of known test defects.

Qualifications­

• 3+ years of experience in the software development process and Agile methodologies
• 2+ years of experience with automated functional testing tools, preferably Selenium & Appium
• 2+ years of experience developing with programming languages (Java, Javascript, Python)
• Strong knowledge of HTML, XML, XPATH, and CSS
• Excellent troubleshooting, problem-solving, and analytical skills
• Superb written and verbal communication
• Experience desig­ning test cases and plans for web applications and APIs (REST; Soap)
• Experience with defect and issue tracking tools like Azure DevOps, JIRA
• Experience with Performance & Load testing tools
• Working knowledge of SQL
• You’re familiar with Continuous Integration systems like Microsoft Azure, Bamboo, and Jenkins
• You’re a good communicator, comfortable collaborating with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Working knowledge of Java and JavaScript would be a bonus
• Familiarity with cloud-based systems

Application Closing Date
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