Senior Software Engineer in Test with German

<h3>Company Description</h3><p>Accesa is a leading technology company headquartered in Cluj-Napoca, with offices in Oradea, Bucharest, Timisoara and Munich and 19 years of experience in turning business challenges into opportunities and growth.</p><p>A value-driven organisation, it has established itself as a partner of choice for major brands in Retail, Manufacturing, Finance, and Banking. It covers the complete digital evolution journey of its customers, from ideation and requirements setup to software development and managed services solutions.</p><p>With more than 1,200 IT professionals, Accesa also has a fast-growing footprint, establishing itself as an employer of choice for IT professionals who are passionate about problem-solving through technology. Coming together in strong tech teams with a customer-centric approach, they enable businesses to grow, delivering value for our clients, partners, industry, and community.</p><h3>Job Description</h3><p><strong>QA Competence Area</strong> </p><p>In the QA Competence Area you will join a community of colleagues with shared interests and benefit from learning resources &amp; programs, certifications and knowledge sharing sessions. </p><p>The Quality Assurance Competence Area includes various topics, such as Quality Management (planning, assurance, and control), continuous testing and delivery through manual and automation, as well as functional and non-functional testing. </p><p><strong>Responsibilities</strong></p><p><strong>Technical</strong></p><ul><li>Execute both automatic and manual testing activities</li><li>Execute performance and usability testing activities, by combining various testing methods, depending on the context and stages of the development process: smoke, exploratory, modules, integration, system, end-to-end etc.</li><li>Perform test processes on software applications in line with the available documentation and create artefacts based on the testing results</li><li>Create, follow, update, review and enforce the QA process and best practices across all stages of the SDLC</li><li>Create detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases</li><li>Prepare the necessary documentation and reports for the testing processes while providing realistic, achievable estimates of effort required to perform QA related tasks</li><li>Evaluate the suitability of different testing tools within the project and apply coverage analysis techniques to ensure that the project requirements are meet</li><li>Constantly improve own technical and soft skills in alignment with the QAO and project needs</li><li>Propose improvements in accordance to the QAO and drive them towards adoption within the projects</li></ul><p><strong>Collaboration</strong></p><ul><li>Work closely with other colleagues, Product Owners, team managers and clients</li><li>Act as a constant team motivator to extend and improve the automation test suite or framework.</li><li>Mentor colleagues that would benefit from your knowledge</li><li>Be part of the recruitment process on the technical side</li><li>Respect the agreements set up together with the team and clients</li><li>Communicate periodically the progress of work and provide status updates</li></ul><h3>Qualifications</h3><ul><li>5+ years of experience in Automation testing</li><li>Good knowledge of test framework structure, test script or unit test.</li><li>Solid understanding of computer programming and software development</li><li>Good understanding of OOP concepts and scripting languages like Java and JavaScript</li><li>Code comprehension for white/grey box testing sessions.</li><li>Familiarity with API testing and GUI testing with Selenium WebDriver, Protractor, Cypress, or similar</li><li>Develop and initiate advanced automated testing methodologies</li><li>Hands-on knowledge in testing/operating Relational / Non-Relational Databases, interacting with REST APIs, GraphQL, queuing systems, DOM / UI / Frontend Testing, Microservices, PWA, SSR, Authentication and authorization, and so on</li><li>Basic Linux skills, VM operation knowledge, container technologies, orchestration handling</li><li>Ability to create fully functional (or proof of concept / sandboxed versions) of necessary testing infrastructure for Automation, Performance or Security tasks</li><li>Proven experience in using test management systems</li><li>Good troubleshooting and problem-solving skills </li><li>Prior experience with cloud services from either GCP, Azure or AWS is a plus.</li><li>Effective communication skills for team and client interaction</li><li>Ability to adjust your strategies and ways of working in accordance with specific contexts</li><li>Team player, being able to collaborate with colleagues and participate in feedback discussions</li><li>Advanced English and German language skills</li></ul><h3>Additional Information</h3><p>At Accesa &amp; RARo you can:</p><p>Enjoy our holistic benefits program that covers the four pillars that we believe