Senior Automation QA

Why N-able:
N-able isn’t just another software company - we’re going places, and we would love for you to be a part of that journey. With N-ablites in more than 15 countries around the world, you’re adding your unique voice to a diverse team of people who are supporting our customers, and one another. The Way We Work, our hybrid working model based on trust and flexibility, allows you to maximize your contributions while growing your career.

The Senior Automation QA Engineer is focused on maintaining the quality standards through developing test plans for the scope delivered by the team. The role forms and implements automated tests for new features across complex products, services, and components. Mentors new team members and train them for skills development.

The role is based in our Edinburgh hub.

What You'll Do:

- Tests complex features at a high level of quality, participate in regression testing, and post-delivery checks.
- Develops new automated tests and advise on the enhancement to the test framework to ensure quality standards.
- Demonstrates expertise across a set of components, products or services.
- Identify testing approaches, including automation and advise on automation plans for features advises on design and best practices in automated tests development.
- Identifies design issues and proposes testability improvements and maintains advanced test documentation which includes test plan and test strategy to keep high standards of product quality.
- Collaborate with Product Managers and other stakeholders to determine requirements.
- Reviews and enhances usability of features, follows existing usability guidelines to improve user experience and analyzes and proactively assists with customer issues reproduction.
- Independently determines testing priorities and collaborates with the testing team, specifically helping newcomers with onboarding to automation, assisting to less experienced Quality Engineers with their tasks and mentoring teammates.
- Creates and maintains test infrastructure to keep operability.

What You'll Bring:

- Strong knowledge of the testing and automation theory and of the software quality control process and SDLC
- High skill level in Test Automation: writes new automated tests in line with existing tests structure, adds enhancements to the test framework
- Professional experience in the development of automated tests using the programming language used in the product/stream for automation, e.g.: C#, ASP.NET, JavaScript, Java, Python, Groovy, Go
- Experience with development of E2E and API automated tests
- Strong problem-solving skills, experience working with escalations on customer/production issues
- Experience with low-level HTTP debugging tools such as Wireshark, Fiddler, Charles Proxy, and DebugDiag and with testing of RESTful APIs and Distributed Web Applications
- Experience working with any relational DB and SQL, with Operating System-based scripting (bash,) with advanced features of dev-tools in browser, with Source Control tools (Git)
- Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, with cloud-based technologies AWS/Azure, with Docker and with Windows/macOS/Linux

Purple Perks:

- Medical, dental and vision coverage
- Generous PTO and observed holidays
- 2 Paid VoluNteer Days per year
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- FuN-raising opportunities as part of our giving program
- N-ablite Learning - custom learning experience as part of our investment in you
- The Way We Work - our hybrid working model based on trust and flexibility

About N-able:
At N-able, Inc. (NYSE: NABL), we are a global software company that turns IT possibilities into capabilities. That means we partner with technology leaders who support companies around the world by offering secure infrastructure and tools to navigate their evolving IT needs. We build strong relationships with our customers to help them thrive at every stage of growth, and at the heart of this effort is our network of N-ablites—a global team of extraordinary, diverse creators who are dedicated to making a difference in how our partners do IT.

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