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Job Description
Blue Planet Inventory is looking for test and test process automation engineers with the experience in the following areas:
Responsible for designing, developing, and implementing automated testing solutions leveraging Gen AI and Agentic AI technologies.
Key Responsibilities Include
- Test case design
- Creating and maintaining automated test cases
- Automating test execution using WebdriverIO (WDIO)
- Implementing API test case automation
- Streamlining and automating various testing processes
- Building and enhancing auto-test frameworks
- Generating, analyzing, and reporting test results
The role requires strong communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and ensure smooth integration of AI-driven automation into the testing lifecycle.
General Activities
Major Activities Involve
- Test tasks and process automation leveraging Gen AI and Agentic AI technologies
- Ongoing communication with PV teams and integration of the automation in the teams
- Solid expertise in automated testing of distributed systems including mission critical ones
- Having extensive experience in types of testing – Static, System, Functional, Regression, Smoke, Integration testing, Load testing
- Passion for automation, tools development, convenient representation of analytical data
- Coding E2E Automated tests for the Angular UI frontend with Cucumber and Webdriver.io
- Coding Rest API testing automation with Cucumber and Node.js Axios framework
- Coding of System testing with Cucumber and Node.js Axios framework, ansible, bash scripting
- Analysis of test results that may require investigating data in the database (writing queries, etc.)
- Full regression execution and reporting
- Ability to do research and find the best and effective way of test automation implementation for required functionality leveraging Gen AI and Agentic AI
- Deep knowledge of containerization/virtualization and other infrastructure-as-a-service platforms (e.g., Docker and related, Kubernetes, OpenStack)
- Strong experience in scripting: Shell, JS
- Strong operational experience in Linux environment
- Experience developing using AWS technologies
- Good knowledge of popular CI/CD frameworks (preferably Jenkins, TeamCity)
- Collaboration with stakeholders
- Work in a global team environment
- Attend status calls with stakeholders as needed
- Work closely with the product team
EXPECTATIONS
- Frontend testing frameworks/libraries: Cucumber, Webdriver.io, Protractor, TypeScript
- Backend testing: Rest API testing automation tools, Cucumber, Node.js, TypeScript
- Load testing: JMeter, Grafana + Prometheus
- Deployment models: Docker, Kubernetes
- Testing Theory: terminology, testing types, asynchronous automated testing
- Continuous Integration Tools: Jenkins, TeamCity, GitLab
- Environments: AWS, Azure, Google cloud
- Version control system: Git, Bitbucket
- Builds: Maven, NPM, JVM, NodeJS
- Ticketing: Jira
- Documentation: Confluence, Gitlab
- Databases: PostgreSQL, Neo4j
- Test Management: TestRail
- Solid expertise in automated testing of distributed systems including mission critical ones
- Having experience in types of testing – Static, System, Functional, Regression, Smoke, Integration testing, Load testing
- Hands-on experience of CI/CD pipeline configuration and maintenance
- Strong experience with SQL and Cypher queries, and Database structure
- Solid operational and administrator experience with Unix operation systems
- Understanding of Web application and Microservice solution architecture
DESIRABLE
- Frontend programming/markup languages: Typescript/JavaScript, html, CSS, SVG
- Frontend development frameworks/libraries: Angular 2+, Node.js/npm, D3.js, gulp
- Backend programming/markup languages: Java/J2EE
- Backend development frameworks/libraries: maven, Spring Data/Security/MVC
- App Server: Apache Tomcat
- DB: Neo4j (graph DB), PostgreSQL+TimescaleDB
- Other Skills: ElasticSearch, Drools, Kafka integration, REST (on Spring MVC), SSO (LDAP, Reverse Proxy, OAuth2)
- System testing: Bash, Shell, Python, Ansible scripting
- Programming theory: algorithms and data structures, relational and graph database concepts, etc.
- Domain: Telecom, OSS, Inventory
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