Test Automation Specialist

Location: Open to those who already reside in Latin America and have flexibility working in the Pacific time zone.

**About the job**:
We are hiring a Test Automation Specialist who will be a strong partner to our customers and deliver best practices with Software QA. Internally, you will also be responsible for communicating and contributing to the continuous development of the Quality Engineering Center of Excellence best practices, go-to-market approach, and overall client engagement best practices.

**Why You'll Love This Job**:

- An opportunity to significantly impact Testlio's continued growth as a contributor to the Quality Engineering Center of Excellence.
- With a vast variety of customers in Testlio's portfolio, you will be able to go through situations that you can't find anywhere else - you will be dealing with multiple projects and partnering with a wonderful team to build amazing app experiences for the most exciting companies in the world
- Chance to work alongside and learn from strongly motivated and experienced co-workers from diverse backgrounds and locations while enjoying the flexibility of a distributed team.
- You will shape the current and future Testlio approach to Automated Testing and work closely with our platform team to imagine and deliver solutions.
- Despite the distances, you'll love our collaborative global culture and contribute to making Testlio a great place to work

**Why you will love being a part of Testlio?**:

- **A true sense of belonging**: the TestLion Pride is a global community of like-minded people who live Testlio's six values every day.
- **Enable human possibilities**: your work at Testlio has a larger purpose. As a TestLion, you will not only help our customers create well-built digital experiences for their users, but also create opportunities for Testlio's freelance network, and support social impact programs like Ignite.
- **Great culture**: Testlio's is female-founded and is 46% women. Our purpose, vision and values help drive positive mindsets and behaviors. People like working with each other and love the global scale of the company. We move fast and empower people on the frontlines to make decisions and own initiatives.
- **Investment in you**: Testlio is a global company and we've created a few benefits that are available regardless of your location. In addition to the paid time off mentioned above, you can reimburse up to $300/yr for learning, you will receive stock options and an equipment policy with Testlio contributing to the bulk of the cost with regular equipment update intervals.

**What You'll Be Doing**:

- Act as a Test Automation Specialist in understanding and simplifying the implementations to the QE test automation suite and implementing it into CI/CD pipeline.
- Assist the other QA/TA team members deployed on the client side in making test automation a success.
- Adhere to Testlio's defined scripting governance process.
- Prepare automation roadmaps and status reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing the data.
- Use your extensive automation experience to challenge the status quo and recommend improvements to frameworks and processes.
- Partner with clients' internal teams to drive strategic Automated Testing solutions.

**What You Need to Succeed**:

- 3-5 years of experience working with Playwright (must have), Appium (nice to have), Selenium (nice to have), and other test automation frameworks.
- Knowledge of Typescript (must have), Java (nice to have), and Python (nice to have).
- Must have experience working with external clients.
- Hands-on experience in testing large codebases with multiple subsystems.
- Knowledge of how automation can be leveraged for different quality gates.
- Previous experience in collaborating with different stakeholders and clients, as well as developing and maintaining client relationships.
- Experience implementing test automation into CI/CD pipelines is required.
- Excellent verbal and written communication in English. You'll be communicating in English every day, including in meetings.
- Be willing to learn fast and continuously expand your knowledge.
- Team player, socially open-minded, empathetic, and considerate of cultural differences.

We do our best to bring on individuals who will be excited about their role and have the potential for a great future with Testlio. Since we are 100% distributed we give you the chance to meet with multiple people throughout the organization to give you an idea of who you would be working with, and what the role expectations will be. Our interview process can take about 4 to 6 weeks to complete.
- Application
- Recruiter interview
- TestGorilla assessment
- Live Technical Skills Demonstration
- Reference checks
- ~3 Hiring Manager and Stakeholder interviews
- Offer & Background check

**Diversity and Inclusion**:
Testlio is an equal-opportunity employer deeply committed to creating an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds and identities.