[IT Delivery Center] Test Automation Engineer

Job Summary

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the dedicated Test Automation Engineer within a Scrum team of six collocated Software Engineers and Quality Assurance (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 Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (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.

Other Assignments

• 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.
• Thorough 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.
• Proficiency in debugging code and troubleshooting issues across various layers of the application stack.
• Ability to perform root cause analysis on defects and performance issues.
• Effective collaboration 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 Behaviour‑Driven Development (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.

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