Senior QA Automation Engineer

NAPA Auto Parts - Torrance, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Torrance, CA

Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers

About the position

The Senior QA Automation Engineer will play a pivotal role in ensuring the quality and reliability of software solutions through automation and testing. This position requires a technologist and engineer who is not only comfortable with enabling new technology but also hands-on in executing the strategy. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of modern technology stacks and agile delivery models, with a strong focus on enhancing customer experience. A proven track record of modernizing technologies is essential, as is the ability to collaborate closely with business teams, application development teams, and security personnel. Exceptional communication and presentation skills are necessary to build and maintain strong working relationships across various teams. Additionally, the ability to attract, retain, and develop engineering talent will be critical to the success of this role.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates and pairs with other product team members (engineering, and product management) to create secure, reliable, scalable software solutions
• Design and develop secure, scalable, resilient services
• Helps define and adhere to team working agreements
• Participates in all phases of the integration development lifecycle, including unit testing and ongoing support
• Collaborate with Architects and other Software Engineering resources in designing and implementing integrated, enterprise solutions
• Creates meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactively
• Act as subject matter expert (SME) in assigned business and technical domains with an excellent understanding of business and system processes, interrelationships/dependencies/interactions among system components, and how things work end to end
• Have a 'test-first' attitude with a focus on automation
• Employ best practices around observability, monitoring, and system resilience
• Guide and act as a resource to other engineers on the team
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements

• 3+ years' experience in software engineering & technology
• Expertise in Data structures, Object-oriented programming, functional programming, and familiarity with microservices, and cloud Technologies
• Experience with programming languages- Java, JEE, latest features leveraging functional programming
• Experience in test frameworks like Junit/TestNg, BDD - Cucumber or equivalent, Selenium or Equivalent
• Experience in designing event-driven mechanisms, and publish/subscribe models
• Experience in writing automated tests - Unit/Integration tests
• Experience with cloud computing on at least one of the major providers (Google Cloud Platform, AWS, or Azure)
• Experience in performance testing and measuring against the defined SLO/SLAs
• Experience in destructive testing methodologies and tools
• Experience with Agile or Scrum software development methodologies
• This job requires 70% coding or coding-related tasks every day

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with an Enterprise level MDM Solution is a plus (Riversand, StiboSTEP, Informatica, PriceDex, etc.)