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Job Summary
The Test Automation Engineer ensures quality and reliability for ComLIMS-Quotation, the Eurofins Information Systems (EurIS) regional web-based Customer Commercial Agreement Management application used across Eurofins laboratories worldwide. The role is embedded in the ComLIMS-Quotation Development Team based in Ho Chi Minh City, comprising five local members alongside offshore team members, and is accountable for building and maintaining automated test suites covering functional and non-functional requirements across acceptance and deployment stages.
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as the dedicated Test Automation Engineer within a Scrum team of six collocated Software Engineers and QA, ensuring test automation is integrated at every stage of feature development.
- Contribute to test execution (acceptance, deployment, and more), build automation, and troubleshooting of selected functional and non-functional requirements for target software applications and services, maintaining an automation ratio of 80%.
- Perform exploratory testing in addition to automated UI tests to uncover usability issues, visual glitches, hidden defects and functionality gaps.
- Adhere to Agile values and practices (Scrum and Kanban), participating in team meetings (stand‑ups, backlog refinement, acceptance criteria refinement) and performing incremental testing of the application.
- Follow continuous delivery practices by ensuring ComLIMS-Quotation test suites are automated and systematically executed as part of the CI/CD pipeline at acceptance and deployment stages.
- Apply test strategies and test plans to ensure high‑quality product delivery, refining them when necessary.
- Collaborate with Software Engineers, architects, development managers, and business analysts to achieve comprehensive test coverage and quality.
- Communicate proactively with product owners, business analysts, development, and testing teams to resolve ambiguity and maintain alignment on test coverage and quality.
- Ensure regular follow‑up with the Team Manager, providing updates as needed or upon request.
- Quickly acquire working knowledge of Eurofins EurIS systems, starting with ComLIMS-Quotation, its underlying concepts, models, and the processes and practices of the team.
- Continuously deepen knowledge of ComLIMS-Quotation concepts, models, and team practices, guided by the priorities of assigned functions.
- Build effective working relationships with IT and non‑IT stakeholders across Eurofins.
Required Skills and Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least three years of experience in software testing, with a strong focus on automation and proven manual testing skills.
- Thorough understanding of various types of testing and their purposes, including acceptance, regression, sanity and exploratory testing.
- Understanding of software applications at both functional and technical levels, with the ability to extend and refine acceptance criteria, including consideration of corner, edge, and boundary cases.
- Working knowledge of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and DevOps practices for effective integration of testing into the development process.
- Proficiency in test automation using object‑oriented languages (such as Java or C#).
- Understanding of web service patterns using REST and ESB queuing patterns, and ability to test them with automation.
- Experience with UI automation testing using tools like Selenium or JavaScript frameworks such as WebdriverIO.
- Proficient in debugging code and troubleshooting issues across various layers of the application stack.
- Ability to perform root cause analysis on defects and performance issues.
- Experience collaborating effectively with distributed teams across multiple countries.
- Hands‑on experience with exploratory testing techniques to complement automated test coverage.
- Fluency in English (written and spoken). Conversational proficiency in Vietnamese to facilitate local communication.
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Initial experience with BDD tools such as SpecFlow/Reqnroll, JBehave, or Cucumber.js for writing test cases in a given/when/then format.
- Working knowledge of scripting languages like PowerShell, Shell, or Bash for automating tasks and writing test scripts.
- Experience testing backend services developed with a DDD approach.
- Familiarity with version control systems (Git) and CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps Pipelines and Jenkins.
- Experience in test automation with web frontend languages (JavaScript or TypeScript).
- Experience with tools like JMeter, LoadRunner, or Gatling for performance, load, and stress testing.
- Ability to review and interpret performance test results and identify bottlenecks.
- Experience working with relational databases and working knowledge of SQL.
- Strong interpersonal communication skills to collaborate effectively with developers, product owners, and other stakeholders.
- Conversational proficiency in Mandarin or French to facilitate communication in a multilingual environment.