About the role
Location: Canada - Remote EST/CST
We're seeking a Senior Test Automation Engineer who is ready to play a crucial role in our product modernization efforts as we go from a monolithic desktop application to a SaaS-based cloud-native architecture leveraging microservices and hosted in AWS.
You'll perform test strategy, design, planning and automation leveraging various test frameworks and tools. While the whole team owns the quality of the software they produce and contributes to the suites of automated tests, you'll also help to ensure that the quality of the tests themselves is appropriately high. This role is integral to ECI’s overall effort to implement enterprise test automation strategies and methodologies and will have a focus on the continuous integration and delivery of our products. Suitable candidates for this position are experienced, hands-on, and self-motivated engineers who can work collaboratively in a continuously delivered environment.
ECI’s home and building supply software suite - Spruce - is a fully integrated business management solution for small to medium sized businesses. It streamlines operations and drives growth. The software is cloud-based and completely integrated, from purchasing through to delivery.
What you’ll do
- Create reliable and fast automated test capabilities and feedback loops within our CI/CD pipelines.
- Implement automated testing of software capabilities, including unit, integration, component, system (E2E), regression, compatibility, and performance tests.
- Refactor code, as needed, to improve testability.
- Collaborate on BDD scenarios and automate those scenarios as tests.
- Collaborate with software engineers to ensure the most effective testing approaches are taken and that the intended test outcomes are achieved.
- Evaluate and apply best practices to facilitate continuous improvement that can be applied across teams.
- Communicate test progress, results, testing metrics and issues to key stakeholders Support ongoing work to continuously improve test automation processes and frameworks.
- Participate in communities of practice.
- Participate as a member of the agile scrum team supporting daily standup meetings, sprint planning meetings and reviews/demonstrations and retrospectives
Skills or experience you need
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field of study.
- At least 5 years overall software engineering and automated testing hands on experience.
- At least 3 years of experience with C#.
- At least 2 years of API Testing.
- At least 2 years of experience with testing and using MSSQL databases.
- Experience implementing lower-level automated testing in C# (unit, integration, component, etc.)
- Experience with performance testing.
- Experience with popular mocking and dependency injection frameworks.
- Experience with Cl/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Nunit/XUnit, Selenium, Specflow/Cucumber, etc.
- Experience with Test Driven Development (TDD), BDD Behavior Driven Development, and Agile (XP)
- Experience with Test processes, open-source test frameworks, test design strategies, writing test cases, and automating tests in C# .Net with frameworks like NUnit/XUnit, Selenium, JMeter and Appium
- Hands on experience with any cloud technology platforms, preferably AWS.
- Proficient in debugging code.
- Proficient in writing functional automation (UI/API)
- Proficiency with design patterns and modern software design principles (e.g. SOLID, Twelve Factor, etc.).
Skills that will set you apart
- AWS Cloud Practitioner, Developer, DevOps or Solutions Architect Certification
- Thorough understanding of AWS infrastructure and services.
- Proficient with Infrastructure as Code and Configuration as Code
- Proficient with GitOps, Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment (CI/CD).
- Hands-on experience with automated tests for desktop GUI applications.
- Hands-on experience with Blazor and Webassembly.
- Hands-on experience with Azure Dev Ops.
- Prior experience with cloud-native SaaS product development.
- Prior experience with testing payment devices.
Behavioral Competencies
- A sense of urgency and a strong bias for action.
- A strong desire to learn new things.
- Strong communication skills and a natural inclination to collaborate.
- Exhibits sound judgement and can make wise decisions despite ambiguity.
- Identifies and resolves root causes rather than only treating symptoms.
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About ECI Software Solutions
For more than 30 years, ECI Software Solutions has been providing industry-specific, cloud-based business management software and services to businesses around the world.
With divisions focused on manufacturing, wholesale/retail distribution, building and construction, and field service, ECI's solutions integrate into every aspect of a customers' business to help them level the playing field, run day-to-day operations more efficiently, and free them up to focus on what matters most. It’s how business gets done.
Privately held with more than 16,000 customers, ECI is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, USA, with offices and companies throughout the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, England, and the Netherlands. For more information, email info@ecisolutions.com, visit www.ECISolutions.com, or call (800) 959-3367.
About the role
Location: Canada - Remote EST/CST
We're seeking a Senior Test Automation Engineer who is ready to play a crucial role in our product modernization efforts as we go from a monolithic desktop application to a SaaS-based cloud-native architecture leveraging microservices and hosted in AWS.
You'll perform test strategy, design, planning and automation leveraging various test frameworks and tools. While the whole team owns the quality of the software they produce and contributes to the suites of automated tests, you'll also help to ensure that the quality of the tests themselves is appropriately high. This role is integral to ECI’s overall effort to implement enterprise test automation strategies and methodologies and will have a focus on the continuous integration and delivery of our products. Suitable candidates for this position are experienced, hands-on, and self-motivated engineers who can work collaboratively in a continuously delivered environment.
ECI’s home and building supply software suite - Spruce - is a fully integrated business management solution for small to medium sized businesses. It streamlines operations and drives growth. The software is cloud-based and completely integrated, from purchasing through to delivery.
What you’ll do
- Create reliable and fast automated test capabilities and feedback loops within our CI/CD pipelines.
- Implement automated testing of software capabilities, including unit, integration, component, system (E2E), regression, compatibility, and performance tests.
- Refactor code, as needed, to improve testability.
- Collaborate on BDD scenarios and automate those scenarios as tests.
- Collaborate with software engineers to ensure the most effective testing approaches are taken and that the intended test outcomes are achieved.
- Evaluate and apply best practices to facilitate continuous improvement that can be applied across teams.
- Communicate test progress, results, testing metrics and issues to key stakeholders Support ongoing work to continuously improve test automation processes and frameworks.
- Participate in communities of practice.
- Participate as a member of the agile scrum team supporting daily standup meetings, sprint planning meetings and reviews/demonstrations and retrospectives
Skills or experience you need
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field of study.
- At least 5 years overall software engineering and automated testing hands on experience.
- At least 3 years of experience with C#.
- At least 2 years of API Testing.
- At least 2 years of experience with testing and using MSSQL databases.
- Experience implementing lower-level automated testing in C# (unit, integration, component, etc.)
- Experience with performance testing.
- Experience with popular mocking and dependency injection frameworks.
- Experience with Cl/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Nunit/XUnit, Selenium, Specflow/Cucumber, etc.
- Experience with Test Driven Development (TDD), BDD Behavior Driven Development, and Agile (XP)
- Experience with Test processes, open-source test frameworks, test design strategies, writing test cases, and automating tests in C# .Net with frameworks like NUnit/XUnit, Selenium, JMeter and Appium
- Hands on experience with any cloud technology platforms, preferably AWS.
- Proficient in debugging code.
- Proficient in writing functional automation (UI/API)
- Proficiency with design patterns and modern software design principles (e.g. SOLID, Twelve Factor, etc.).
Skills that will set you apart
- AWS Cloud Practitioner, Developer, DevOps or Solutions Architect Certification
- Thorough understanding of AWS infrastructure and services.
- Proficient with Infrastructure as Code and Configuration as Code
- Proficient with GitOps, Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment (CI/CD).
- Hands-on experience with automated tests for desktop GUI applications.
- Hands-on experience with Blazor and Webassembly.
- Hands-on experience with Azure Dev Ops.
- Prior experience with cloud-native SaaS product development.
- Prior experience with testing payment devices.
Behavioral Competencies
- A sense of urgency and a strong bias for action.
- A strong desire to learn new things.
- Strong communication skills and a natural inclination to collaborate.
- Exhibits sound judgement and can make wise decisions despite ambiguity.
- Identifies and resolves root causes rather than only treating symptoms.
#LI-Remote
#LI-ND1
About ECI Software Solutions
For more than 30 years, ECI Software Solutions has been providing industry-specific, cloud-based business management software and services to businesses around the world.
With divisions focused on manufacturing, wholesale/retail distribution, building and construction, and field service, ECI's solutions integrate into every aspect of a customers' business to help them level the playing field, run day-to-day operations more efficiently, and free them up to focus on what matters most. It’s how business gets done.
Privately held with more than 16,000 customers, ECI is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, USA, with offices and companies throughout the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, England, and the Netherlands. For more information, email info@ecisolutions.com, visit www.ECISolutions.com, or call (800) 959-3367.