What are the responsibilities and job description for the QA Automation Engineer Sr. position at ACL Digital?
Job Title : Sr. QA Automation Engineer
Location : Remote (Open to all times but most are all EST or CST)
Job Description :
Day to Day Responsibilities of this Position and Description of Project :
Who You Are
You are someone with expertise in automated testing and quality assurance principles who will bring focus to quality in the software development process. You are someone with strong communication skills who will collaborate with software engineers on your team to advocate for quality. You are a continuous learner who will apply the proper tools and techniques to the situation and evangelize best practices and proper methodologies. If you're a skilled Software Quality Engineer looking for a challenging and rewarding opportunity in an incredibly fun industry, then TCGplayer is the right place for you.
The Impact You Will Make Here
- You will help enable sellers to be successful in our thriving collectible gaming marketplace and their own stores by providing them best-in-class tools to manage their inventory, listings, pricing, and more.
- You will lead complex software feature testing through the Agile software development lifecycle by implementing tests, metrics, and quality gates to ensure the definition of done is met.
- You will collaborate closely with engineers and participate in code reviews to constantly improve the quality of our microservices built in C# and .NET 8.
- You will gather and analyze software requirements, shaping them into actionable items for testing and automation.
- You will improve the stability of our platform and enhance our ability to safely and quickly introduce new features by shoring up our automated regression test suites.
- You will document and communicate your progress effectively to your peers and manager.
What You Bring to the Team
Will this candidate interface with IT and business teams? If so, which internal / external groups? Backend engineering team 4 Sr engineer
Q1- taking care of backend services- inventory, price points,
Standard SCRUM, backlog grooming, sprint sessions weekly
Initial ramp up period will be getting familiar with the domain and asset the existing test coverage and will not be starting from zero- some work has been done in this area and have been maintained
Helping to be the owner of the quality of the services of the full processes and that the tests are good and are covering all of the critical workflows and can spot areas that may be behind.
utomated test coverages- CICD pipelines so a person doesn't need to be manually testing and want to get leveled up with the automated testing - RestAPI, Kafka and event based
Setting up load testing- future scaling needs, Cyber weekend
80% Automated 20% Manual- and figure out how we can adjust those manual duties and transition them into
utomated How does this project impact the line of business or eBay as a whole? Required Skills (top 3 to 5 / non-negotiables) : What you like to see on resumes? (nice to have) 1
Playwright- Typescript experience or JMeter 1
Kafka testing experience 2
CSharp- microservices - Open to Java but team uses CSharp 2
CICD tooling - Jenkins or similar tooling 3
Contract testing : Pact- Pactflow specifically 3
Experience setting up the gates - add better gates between the environments 4
Comfortable in those program languages - Kafka is important 4
Load testing experience 5
Disqualifiers or Dislikes on Resumes : Not front-end testing components to this work- would not be a good fit for this role Education Requirement : No degree required
Minimum 7 years of relevant experience - someone who can hit the ground running and has the ability to advise the team and has those leadership qualities
Can be opiniated and help move the team forward Required Testing : utomation Testing experience Software Skills Required : CSharp, Kafka, Contract Testing, Playwright, CICD, Microservices Required Certifications : NA Preferred companies / industries : eCommerce, Backend Seller facing, Warehouse Management experience, larger scale microservices but open to all Candidate Value Proposition : NA Difficult Aspects of Role : NA
