Senior Automation QA Engineer

As an Automation Test Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring the quality and reliability of enterprise applications through automation testing. Your role will involve developing and maintaining automated test scripts, integrating with test management tools, and conducting thorough reviews of test cases. You will work closely with other team members to identify and resolve defects, performing root cause analysis and improving defect management processes. Your focus will be on large-scale applications that include various front-end technologies such as WPF, web-based interfaces, and backend components, including databases, web services, and messaging systems.

In this position, you will apply your expertise in C# and object-oriented programming to build and optimise automation frameworks. You will be involved in testing web services and REST APIs, utilising tools like Selenium, XUnit, and Postman. Additionally, you will work with service testing tools such as Fiddler, SOAP UI, and JSON Lint to ensure comprehensive test coverage. Your role will require close collaboration within an Agile development environment, contributing to the overall quality of software releases and improving automation strategies over time.

To succeed in this role, you should have 7 years of experience in automation testing with strong coding skills in C#. A solid understanding of software quality assurance methodologies and experience with test automation for enterprise applications is essential. You should be proficient in testing web services and REST APIs, as well as working with automation frameworks like Coded UI, Selenium, and XUnit. Hands-on experience with database queries and SOA testing principles will be beneficial.

Your ability to work in an Agile development environment, communicate effectively, and collaborate with international teams will be crucial. You should have strong analytical and problem-solving skills, along with the ability to quickly adapt to complex systems. Prior exposure to performance and load testing, as well as experience in large system integration projects, will be an advantage. A degree in Computer Science, MCA, or an equivalent qualification is required. The ideal candidate will be detail-oriented, proactive, and capable of handling multiple tasks while maintaining high quality standards.

We support your development! Do you feel you don’t match 100% of the requirements? Don’t hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.

We embrace diversity!  As an Equal Opportunity Employer, the Eurofins Network of companies believe in strength and innovation through diversity. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.

Sustainability matters to us!  We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025, through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives we count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!

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Company description: Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.

The Eurofins network of companies believes that it is a global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and agroscience contract research services. It is also one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, and in the support of clinical studies, as well as in biopharma contract development and manufacturing. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In over 35 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to ca. 62,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of more than 900 laboratories in 62 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.

In 2023, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6,515 million, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.