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At OCLC, we believe you'll do the best work of your life when you're living the best life possible.

We work hard to build the technology that connects thousands of today's libraries. But we also work hard to make a job at OCLC a meaningful part of a balanced life- not a substitute for one.

Technology with a Purpose. OCLC supports thousands of libraries in making information more accessible and more useful to people around the world. OCLC provides shared technology services, original research and community programs that help libraries meet the ever-evolving needs of their users, institutions, and communities. With office locations around the globe, OCLC employees are dedicated to offering premier services and software to help libraries.

The Job Details are as follows:

OCLC has a dedicated team of Quality Assurance (QA) professionals who are obsessed with building quality products and services in the right way. The QA team works daily to understand our customer's needs, and then uses that understanding to ensure that all deliveries not only exceed our customers' expectations, but also meet our own high standards of software quality and exceptional user-experience.

At OCLC, QA is involved in the entire project process: monitoring and improving the process, making sure that any agreed-upon standards and procedures are followed, and ensuring that problems are found and dealt with. Its all oriented to PREVENTION!

Senior Test Engineer with strong automation development skills to support our Quality Assurance team members who are passionate about providing high quality test coverage for our products.

As a Senior Test Engineer, you will you will serve an integral role in our QA team, working interactively with other test engineers to provide automated regression test frameworks and test coverage. You will recommend and implement improvements to help increase quality of testing and our software applications. You will design and support test automation frameworks used throughout the organization. Your skills will also be leveraged to coach, mentor, and collaborate with others. You will be responsible for designing, developing and evolving test automation frameworks, defining automation coding and source code management standards, developing tools and utilities for test automation, managing test infrastructure, and exploring innovations in test automation.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, optimize, and/or maintain automated testing frameworks.

• Collaborate with team members located across the globe.

• Quickly learn new tools and technologies.

• Propose/implement improvements that result in increased efficiency and reduce risk.

• Manage changing priorities.

• Maintain and improve subject matter expertise including general software architecture knowledge.

• Provide support and backup for other QA team members.

• Effectively coach and mentor others.

• Produce and maintain documentation.

• Develop, implement, and maintain test data and environments required for testing.

• Report and analyze test results. Troubleshoot failures.

• Perform tasks required for automated test implementation including review acceptance criteria, create test scenarios, implement data management strategy, and generate required reports.

• Help define coding standards and best practices for automation engineers.

• Explore and integrate tools that aid in the development and testing of our products. Where applicable, evaluate and implement new tools and processes.

Qualifications

Minimum Required

• Bachelors degree in IT, Computer Science similar technical discipline or 5+ years equivalent work experience.

• Works well independently and collaboratively.

• Strong communication, public speaking, coaching, and mentoring skills.

• Willingness to learn a broad spectrum of OCLC products.

• Understanding of Agile/Scrum processes and experience participating in an Agile team.

• Experience with defect management.

• Experience with testing across varieties of devices and operating systems.

• Strong knowledge of QA methodologies and testing techniques, including functional, non-functional, system integration, install verification, and testing across many phases of a project.

• Proficient with Gherkin.

• Experience in building and maintaining test automation.

• Ability to develop tests to address the full stack automation (database, web services and UI)

• Independently automates testing using Ruby/Cucumber, Java, or other similar language.

• Solid understanding of computer programming, software development, and design.

• Minimum of 4 years demonstrated experience in one or more of the following testing toolsets/frameworks:

  • Selenium Grid/WebDriver

  • Cucumber/Gherkin

  • jUnit, TestNG

  • Maven/Gradle

Desired but not required

Working knowledge of library processes and products. Functional knowledge of OCLCs products. Continued education in testing or QA certification. Membership in quality or IT organization. Demonstrated experience with Continuous Integration, including one or more of the following build/deploy/version control tools:

• Jenkins

• Git

• Maven

Minimum of 3 years of demonstrated experience in one or more of the following:

• Java

• IntelliJ

• JavaScript