Lead Automation QAengineer

**Description**:
**Ciklum** is looking for a **Lead Automation QA** Engineer** to join our team full-time in Spain.

We are a leading global product engineering and digital services company that unites 4000+ seasoned professionals globally on various projects in healthcare, fintech, travel, sportswear, entertainment, and security. Ciklum delivers high-impact technology solutions to Fortune 500 and fast-growing organizations worldwide.

**About the role**:
As a Lead Automation QA Engineer, become a part of a cross-functional development team working for our Client.

**Responsibilities**:

- Ensure software quality; analyze, report, and ensure error resolution identified in deployments
- Help the PO to refine user stories and define the acceptance criteria, obtaining the functional and non-functional requirements
- Ask the right questions to the PO or business users to pass high level acceptance criteria for specific scenarios, examples and set of tests
- Check the Do and verify the DoD
- Define the automatized test cases that are to be implemented by the development team
- Define the test plans (for sprint, deployment, load ) and follow-up their execution
- Architect test automation frameworks from scratch
- Develop automated functional UI tests & API/Service level tests
- Integrate automated scripts into CI/CD process
- Develop, maintain and expand automated testing infrastructure
- Devise and document test frameworks, coding standards, preferred design patterns, and development methodologies
- Ensure code quality with peer reviews to ensure guidelines and standards are followed
- Define Quality Metrics and implement measurements to determine test effectiveness, testing efficiency, and measure the overall quality of the Product as a part of test automation process
- Make conclusion and report about the quality of the product under test
- Collaborate with other members of the QA team to automate the manual test processes
- Manage, analyze and mitigate testing risks
- Onboarding of new team members on the project
- Technical advice for the testing teams

**Requirements**:

- .NET Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET)
- C# Experience
- QA Experience
- .net Core
- Unit/Integration Test Experience
- Git

**Desirable**:

- At least One of the following:

- Experience Testing Microservices Interfaces
- Experience Testing Event Driven Systems
- Experience with E2E Testing in complex environment
- Experience of Performance/Load Testing
- Message Brokers (preferably Apache Pulsar, alternatively RabbitMQ or Kafka)
- Docker/Kubernetes
- Experience with mobile automation, cloud device farms
- Knowledge of other programming languages would be a great plus
- Integration of GDPR principles in automated testing

**What's in it for you**:

- **Global impact**:work on large-scale projects that redefine industries with international and fast-growing clients
- **Welcoming environment**: feel empowered with a friendly team, open-door policy, informal atmosphere within the company and regular team-building events
- **Flexibility**: hybrid & 100% remote work opportunities, flexible work schedule
- **Work-life**:23 vacation days & short Fridays
- **Health**:comprehensive company-paid medical insurance & 4 additional undocumented sick leave days
- **Tailored education path**: regular internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), language courses and company-paid certifications
- **Growth environment**: share your experience and level up your expertise with a community of skilled professionals, locally and globally
- **Opportunities**: our Internal Mobility Program helps change a project if needed to help you grow, excel professionally and fulfil your potential

**About us**:
Our Delivery Center in Malaga is one of the leading IT hubs in Andalusia - it provides an exceptional mix of vibrant tech talent community, wide-open access to learning and career advancement opportunities, hybrid / remote work setup & endless Mediterranean seashore summer.

**Be bold, not bored