QA Engineer / Automation Engineer

About RWS

RWS Holdings plc is the world’s leading provider of technology-enabled language, content management and intellectual property services. We help our customers to connect with and bring new ideas to people globally by communicating business critical content at scale and enabling the protection and realization of their innovations.

Our vision is to help organizations interact effectively with people anywhere in the world by solving their language, content and market access challenges through our collective global intelligence, deep expertise and smart technology.

Customers include 90 of the globe’s top 100 brands, the top 10 pharmaceutical companies and 18 of the top 20 patent filers worldwide. Our client base spans Europe, Asia Pacific, and North and South America across the technology, pharmaceutical, medical, legal, chemical, automotive, government and telecommunications sectors, which we serve from offices across five continents.

Founded in 1958, RWS is headquartered in the UK and publicly listed on AIM, the London Stock Exchange regulated market (RWS.L).

For further information, please visit: www.rws.com.

About The Role:

Language Cloud is a SaaS platform built in a microservice architecture using Java based on Spring Boot. We are adopters of leading OSS cloud stacks like Netflix OSS and Spring Cloud for building resilient, fault tolerant and scalable products. The micro services are usually exposed through a REST API and are consumed through SDKs or by our own web applications which are usually built in ExtJS. We implement Continuous Delivery by using tools like Maven, Jenkins, Selenium, Cucumber and JMeter, Pact, Nexus and deploying our services through Chef recipes on a hybrid cloud offered by NTT and Amazon AWS.

Are you highly self-motivated and passionate about technologies?  Do you want to be a part of an established team, where you can further develop you skill set as a manual and automation QA?

Do you want to take on the challenge and see how your contributions can translate into personal accomplishments and business revenue for high-level customers? Apply now at recruitment.cluj@sdl.com.

Main areas of responsibility

As a QA engineer for Language Cloud, you will:

• Responsible for testing features through manual and automated testing
• Working with and learning from senior members within the team to implement broader automation coverage across current and future projects.
• Estimate test effort, design, develop, and deploy testing techniques for new applications or enhancements to existing applications
• Ensure test case execution trough integration of all developed test cases into the build chain (across all testing environments)
• Install and set up software in a virtual and controlled environment
• Identify and seek out opportunities for the continual improvement of processes, procedures, and infrastructure to increase efficiency, reduce risk, and provide stability
• Identify, log, and track errors according to the standards of the company

Contribute to the pre-testing phase of project development by evaluating proposals to identify potential problem areas and make appropriate recommendations

 

Required skills

• Technical university degree
• 1 or more years of experience in a manual-testing role
• Basic knowledge in developing test automation scripts
• Basic knowledge of an OOP
• Ability and knowledge related to: Java, REST APIs, networking, operating systems, dependencies and application issues
• Good knowledge of various testing types
• A good understanding of QA processes and methodology
• Knowledge of the Software Development Lifecycle
• Experience with test case management tools such as TestRail, Testlink
• Experience with issue tracking tools such as Jira.
• Ability to work in an Agile team and adjust to shifting priorities
• A willingness to improve skill set and learn new technologies and techniques
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Highly self-motivated and passionate about technologies

Good communication skills, both written and spoken word with an ability to successfully engage with team members

 

Preferred skills

• Selenium WebDriver is a plus
• Experience with Java
• Experience with API testing is a plus
• Experience with a continuous integration tool like Jenkins is a plus
• Good understanding of Agile development practices
• Understanding/experience with security, performance, scalability, data driven testing
• ISTQB certification is a plus

Benefits

• A professional and committed team to work in
• Flexible working hours
• Medical coverage
• Performance bonus
• Meal tickets
• Monthly subscription for sports activities and transportation
• Financial support for buying glasses or contact lenses
• Additional vacation days​​​​​​​

 

Life at RWS - We work hard together to deliver for our customers; our expertise, professionalism and determination to never let others down drives  us to be passionate and serious about what we do, deliver customer value, yet always adding a human touch 
 

As a company focused on connecting people through language, diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our company culture. RWS is an Equal Opportunities Employer and we are committed in ensuring that all employees work in an environment free from all forms of harassment and discrimination and one that actively promotes teamwork, diversity and trust. All employees have a right to be treated with respect and dignity. RWS operate in a manner for the inclusion of all - any form of discrimination is expressly prohibited. Employees are selected and promoted on merit alone and no other factors whether race, gender, age, religion, marital status, gender identity or disability are taken into consideration. 
 

We are proud to work in a company where all can succeed and grow their career and while RWS operates in accordance with all local employment laws, if local law enables any form of discrimination this is against RWS company policy and we will adhere to the highest standard.   

 

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