Senior QA Automation Engineer for Thomas Cook (Malaga) (вакансія неактивна)

On behalf of Thomas Cook, Ciklum is looking for a Senior Automation QA Engineer to join Malaga team on a full-time basis. This is a great opportunity to be part of an exciting Team that delivers a standard-bearing product within the travel industry.

Thomas Cook Group plc is one of the world’s leading leisure travel groups with sales of £7.8 billion in the year ended 30 September 2015. Thomas Cook is supported by 21,813 employees and operates from 15 source markets; it is number one or two (by revenue) in all its core markets. Thomas Cook Group plc’s shares are listed on the London Stock Exchange (TCG).
The Company’s very essence is to deliver inspiring personal journeys as the trusted pioneer in global travel. The core of our strategy is to deliver a high-tech, high-touch approach and being there for their customers wherever, whenever and however they want to connect with Company.
Drawing together the IT capabilities across the Group into a consistent platform that will enable the extension of the Group’s dynamic packaging capability to customers in all markets, assist with yield management and create a seamless, unified, multi-channel customer interaction experience (across mobile, web, and in store) will add considerable value. TC Group is building the capability to support personalised customer interaction through micro segmentation, social media integration, and powerful recommendation analytics. The IT investment plan is based on using verified, proven capabilities and systems that already exist within the Group and the extension of these to other parts of the Group.

As a Senior QA you will be part of a development team involved in designing and building large java applications based on Integration that scale to millions of customers, billions of pounds in revenue and thousands of requests per minute.

The team is responsible for the search engine powering the main eCommerce platform of Thomas Cook. This eCommerce platform consists of websites in multiple markets where Thomas Cook operates. The search engine based on Solr exposes several web services to the front-end. The team’s responsibilities are mainly maintaining, optimising and expanding these web services and the processes that create the search indexes. There are also business configuration tools, including a web-based UI the team is responsible for. Finally there are tools for operational management of the whole system.

The back-end services are high-performance, highly available clustered Java applications with replicated and partitioned storage. Business configuration tools are mainly Java as well, the operational tools are a mix of Java and Python. Java technologies used are Mule and JSF.

Main focus points for a technical tester/automation QA are functional correctness of the developed solutions and performance. Performance is critical to the success of the search solution of Thomas Cook

Work process will be the Agile Scrum (2 week sprints, 2 week delivery, testers in the team, devops in the team to automate deployment and the usual scrum ceremonies). You will be working in close collaboration and direct communication with eCommerce platform teams, that also work on Scrum.

Responsibilities:
● Produce high quality test assets as part of sprint testing;
● Ensure the quality of all product releases is up to a standard agreed and accepted by key stakeholder;
● Actively contribute and drive the on-going improvement of the testing process, knowledge, quality and best practices;
● Maintain good visibility and communication of all testing activities with the team and key stakeholders;
● Ensure key issues detected are appropriately documented, flagged, communicated and handed over to the appropriate function to resolve in a timely manner;
● Ensure the performance of the solution is constantly improving;
● Increase the number of Testing/QA scenarios which are automated.

Requirements:
● Able to develop maintainable, high-quality, and efficient automated scripts in Java and performance tests that meet requirements
● Design and performing automated acceptance tests written in a behavior-driven development style (Cucumber, jBehave)
● Understanding of QA processes, approaches, methodologies and software development lifecycle, and ability to apply the knowledge into daily operation
● Experience producing key test assets (requirements gathering, test plans, test reports)
● Experience with software testing (Functional, Integration, Regression, and User Acceptance, Risk based testing)
● Experience with testing APIs and Back-End Services (REST, SOAP, AMQP)
● Experience with SoapUI
● Experience with Performance/Load testing and measure performance (jMeter, LoadRunner, etc.)
● Familiar with continuous integration (jenkins) and source control systems such as git/github
● Knowledge of Agile Scrum process and how it pertains to the QA life cycle
● Experience with Linux or other UNIX-like OSes

Personal qualities:
● Fluent spoken and written English
● Good verbal and written communication skills
● High level of attention to details
● Ability to keep a high level overview of the complete solution and understand the business value
● Ability to deal with ambiguity and drive independently or collaboratively with team on solutions, positive approach to difficulties and imaginative problem solver

What’s in it for you?
● Ability to work on challenging, large project with complex high load e-commerce platform;
● State of the art, cool, centrally located offices with warm atmosphere which creates really good working conditions;
● Unique working environment where you communicate and work directly with client;
● Competitive salary;
● Career and professional growth;
● Possibility to work in a big and successful company;
● Long-term employment with 20 working-days paid vacation and other social benefits.

About Ciklum
Ciklum is a top-five global Software Engineering and Solutions Company. Our 3,000+ IT professionals are located in the offices and delivery centres in Ukraine, Belarus, Poland and Spain.
As Ciklum’s employee, you’ll have the unique possibility to communicate directly with the client when working in Extended Teams.
Besides, Ciklum is the place to make your tech ideas tangible. The Vital Signs Monitor for the Children’s Cardiac Center as well as Smart Defibrillator, the winner of the IoT World Hackathon in the USA, are among the cool things Ciklumers have developed.
Ciklum is a technology partner for Google, Intel, Micron, and hundreds of world-known companies. We are looking forward to seeing you as a part of our team!