Software Engineer Test Automation

Kindred People AB, Stockholm

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The role:

We are looking for a test automation software engineer who is open to learning and adapting to ever-evolving techniques within our talented team of developers. We work with Mission Critical products to fine tune the experiences of millions of end users - there's nearly zero downtime, so you will need to be excellent at what you do.

As a tester, you will be crucial to each development team, ensuring top quality with each release. You need to enjoy problem solving through white-boarding and pair programming while daring to challenge the way we work.


Some interesting facts about tech at Kindred Group:

  • We have an uptime of 99-95% across our sites
  • We do over 4,400 production releases each year and targeted 10,000 releases
  • Our platform consists of more than 200 micro-services
  • Over 25 million transactions per day
  • More than 40 game providers integrated
  • Over 20 payment providers integrated
  • Millions of events go to our big data platform each day

What you will do

  • Learn and contribute in ways outside usual development work, including participating in internal development academies, conferences, public speaking and leadership programs
  • Identify business requirements and work closely with the product owner, developers and business analysts to find solutions, providing feedback and ensuring they are fit for purpose
  • Write acceptance criteria for requirements
  • Design tests to mitigate risk
  • Liaise with project teams in other parts of the world
  • Estimate test effort for user stories, sprints and projects
  • Perform manual testing (exploratory and non-functional) and log results
  • Review results of automated tests and log defects
  • Stress test
  • Performance test
  • Collaborate with the UAT test team to ensure consistent behavior and provide feedback to the team in the form of test metrics and reports
  • Identify, maintain and drive bespoke test automation solutions
  • Monitor and measure test coverage to improve test scenarios
  • Provide feedback / input on the techniques, solutions and tools used throughout projects
  • Create and maintain online documentation
  • Monitor applications and software systems
  • Manage and plan releases
  • Work to departmental and project deadlines

How will success be measured in this role

  • Regular performance reviews with your line manager
  • Acting in line with Kindred Group values
  • Successful completion of all relevant training and other compliance activities that support Kindred's sustainable and responsible growth

Your experience

  • Use of tools and frameworks such as Cucumber and Gatling, Java or Python
  • Cypress
  • BDD approach to software development
  • Test automation within an Agile environment
  • Building and maintaining test automation frameworks
  • Work with structured test methods and processes
  • Use of database concepts and ability to write basic SQL queries
  • Software failures and faults
  • A risk-based approach to testing
  • Non-functional aspects of web application testing, such as UI, Accessibility, Security and Performance

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