Python QA Automation Engineer (SDET) (1 year contract)

Role 

Join Faptic Technology, a fast-growing scale-up organization with an ambition to be recognized as one of the leading technology companies servicing high tech, global enterprises across Technology, Finance, and Life Sciences sectors. Our global client base needs builders: engineers and developers who love technology, have deep expertise in software, engineering, and cloud technologies, and importantly, have a passion for culture and customers. 

• We obsess about our customers 

• We build outstanding technical solutions 

• We create an awesome culture 

• We accelerate learning and careers 

Our team is expanding and we are looking for a SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test) - Python to join our fast-growing team.

You will work with world class specialists in a friendly, supportive and open-minded environment on challenging goals that will help you to grow professionally and achieve new technical levels. This role will focus on improving and monitoring product quality via test automation framework development and test coverage extension for functional and performance suits. You will work with the most valuable part of the product - a Forex brokerage core. If you enjoy working with pure API, Python, cutting-edge technologies, Kafka and AWS, this role is for you.

Your activities will include:

• Work in close cooperation with the development team to enhance software delivery and quality throughout the entire software development cycle.
• Understand and translate high level business requirements to technical requirements.
• Advise on efficient performance testing strategies for enhancing delivery and quality throughout the full software development cycle.
• Develop formal test procedures and test plans from internal product design documentation as well as from external certification requirements.
• Design, develop and modify functional and performance automation tests.
• Design and implement test automation framework, required libraries and auto-tests.
• Develop emulators for mobile testing.
• Build CI/CD pipelines and integrate automation scripts into CI tools.
• Manage any issues that may arise and drive resolutions throughout the testing process.
• Share technical expertise with the rest of the QA team.
• Actively participate in the Software Development Life Cycle and Software Testing Life Cycle.

Requirements

• BSc/MSc in Computer Science, Software Engineering or similar
• Minimum 2 years of comprehensive experience in quality assurance
• Minimum 2 years of practical experience in Python development

• Strong hands-on experience in designing and developing automated tests using Python

• Strong technical background

• Experience in testing REST API

• Confident knowledge of Git

• Experience in agile software development methodologies and testing procedures

• Strong interpersonal skills

• Very good written and verbal skills in English  

The following will be considered an advantage:

• Experience with testing framework development

• Experience with asynchronous and multithreading programming

• Experience in testing web sockets

• Experience with Docker

• Experience with  Grafana

• Experience in performance testing

• Experience in the Finance/Forex domain