Contract, Principal Automation Test Engineer

Full Time
Johannesburg, South Africa
9 months ago

About Nintex: 

At Nintex, we are transforming the way people work, everywhere.  

Nintex is the global standard for process intelligence and automation. Today more than 10,000 public and private sector organizations across 90 countries turn to the Nintex Process Platform to accelerate progress on their digital transformation journeys by quickly and easily managing, automating and optimizing business processes. We improve their lives though the technology we build. 

Nintex engineers are building more than just software and know the impact one line of code can make. We are the experts that build the industry’s most complete process and automation platform to transform the way people work. If you’re interested, curious and want to learn and do more, the sky is the limit here. We take a solutions-oriented and collaborative approach, and we don’t wait to create and carry out opportunities for innovation in our business – and our products. Our work makes the hard stuff appear easy to anyone with clicks-and-not-code process automation. 

We are committed to fostering a workplace that supports amazing people in doing their very best work every day. Collaboration is constant, our workplace is fun, the environment is fast-paced and we value our people’s curiosity, ideas and enthusiasm. We deliver on our commitments, we don't wait to implement ideas or fix issues, and we treat each other with respect and consideration. 

About the role: 

Principal Automation Test Engineers are the technical authority on strategic, complex test automation and Quality projects. You support the product and QA domain goals by enabling multiple teams or product areas. You contribute to the company's test automation strategy and its long-term technical direction.  

You support teams in developing test automation frameworks and explore the latest trends in test automation. You research and lead the adoption of new approaches and technologies while striving for excellence in the test automation domain. You set technical standards and enhance the productivity of testing teams. 

Your contribution will be:  

  • You design, build, and suggest test architectures to improve automation testing and quality across an entire product portfolio. 
  • You collaborate closely with Product, Architecture, and Development to ensure automation framework can test the Product Software at multiple points including UI, API, and server code  
  • You lead discussions around test tooling, best practices, and improving test automation. 
  • You demonstrate expertise across various testing tools, languages (C#, JavaScript, Ruby, etc.), and platforms (desktop, cloud, mobile, etc.) 
  • You empower teams to improve test optimization (pass rate, execution speed, etc.), and provide technical guidance on improving delivery speed. 
  • You create new or refactor existing test frameworks from the lowest levels for increased efficiency and empower non-technical audiences to be able to understand and use the framework 
  • You provide guidance in setting up test infrastructure and test environments to support   continuous delivery with automation.  
  • You identify and research emerging technologies that will serve the wider engineering group to aid testing efficiency. 
  • You identify and provide ongoing technical guidance to team members across Nintex and mentor selected engineers to increase team’s overall quality and productivity. 
  • You demonstrate expert knowledge of non-functional testing (performance, security, accessibility, reliability, etc.) and use that knowledge to build-out automated testing solutions that ensure acceptance and quality in non-functional testing. 
  • You attend and contribute to team meetings and ceremonies (daily scrum meetings, planning meetings, demos, and retrospective meetings) on a need basis. 
  • You actively look at ways to improve Nintex’s quality and testing landscape and encourage re-use and knowledge sharing.  
  • You promote our culture through the Nintex tenets.

To be successful, we think you need:  

  • Experience working on localization projects
  • 6+ years experience with automation testing
  • Selenium experience as well as PlayWright, Jmeter etc
  • Experience with developing and executing test strategies

What’s in it for you? 

Nintex employees have the freedom to work how they work best. We are virtual-first across our global workforce. Our people work in the way that best suits them and their teams - whether at home, in an office, or another place that sparks creativity, focus and collaboration. Our work environment is such that our people can successfully deliver their work while adequately supporting their lifestyle and preferences.  

While our offerings differ from country to country, we offer our entire global workforce an array of exciting perks and benefits, including 

  • Global Gratitude and Recharge Days
  • Mindfulness and counseling resources
  • Invention/patenting assistance
  • Meaningful recognition
  • Community impact opportunities
  • Multiple tools through which to learn and grow, and an incredible global community 

View more here: https://www.nintex.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Global-Perks-and-Benefits.pdf.  

Equity Statement: Preference will be given to People Living with Disability who are members of the designated groups in line with the Employment Equity Plan and Targets of the Company.

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