Job Description: Rakuten International oversees 7 businesses with over 4,000 employees globally. The brand is recognized for its leadership and innovation in e-commerce, digital content, advertising, entertainment and communications, bringing the joy of discovery and access to more than 1 billion members across the world. Our teams deliver on the company’s mission to delight merchants and customers through innovation, optimism, and teamwork.

Rakuten Rewards is a leading e-commerce company that enhances the way people shop by offering Cash Back, deals and rewards from more than 3,500 merchants. Founded in 1999, Rakuten has grown to become the go-to shopping destination for consumers, having paid out nearly $2 billion in Cash Back to its 15 million members. The company also operates ShopStyle, a leading fashion discovery destination, and Cartera Commerce, a top rewards platform for airlines and banks. For more information, visit www.rakuten.com.

Job Summary: Rakuten Rewards is seeking a QA Automation Engineer to join our rapidly growing Productivity Engineering (PE) organization. The PE team at Rakuten Rewards is dedicated to delivering efficient, reliable, and high-quality outcomes, empowering autonomous product development teams (Tribes & Squads) to achieve their goals. As a member of the service delivery team, you will collaborate with engineering colleagues to build, test, and maintain our next generation of web micro-sites and backend micro-services hosted on AWS cloud. You will play a crucial role in developing and maintaining both automation and manual test suites, contributing to the robustness and reliability of our technology stack.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain test suites, automated test scripts for mobile and web applications.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand application requirements and design effective test strategies.
• Participate in code reviews and provide feedback to improve the quality and reliability of the mobile codebase.
• Stay up to date with industry best practices and emerging technologies in quality assurance and automation.
• Incorporate DevOps and Quality practices into testing processes, ensuring seamless integration and deployment of applications

Qualifications:

• Proven experience in software testing for API and web applications.
• Proven experience in functional, regression and cross-browser testing.
• Proficient in overseeing the entire testing process from data validation to front-end verification, utilizing a combination of SQL, manual testing, and automation testing techniques.
• Ability to conduct test analysis and verify quality requirements.
• Experience with performance and/or load testing would be an asset.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of experience in quality assurance, with a focus on automation and performance testing.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Java, or JavaScript.
• Experience with test automation frameworks for web and mobile such as Selenium, Appium, or similar
• Experience with testing platforms such as TestRails, BrowserStack or similar

Five Principles for Success Our worldwide practices describe specific behaviors that make Rakuten unique and united across the world. We expect Rakuten employees to model these 5 Shugi Principles of Success.

Always improve, Always Advance

• Only be satisfied with complete success - Kaizen

Passionately Professiona l - Take an uncompromising approach to your work and be determined to be the best

Hypothesize - Practice - Validate – Shikumika

• Use the Rakuten Cycle to succeed in unknown territory

Maximize Customer Satisfaction

• The greatest satisfaction for our teams is seeing their customers smile

Speed!! Speed!! Speed!!

• Always be conscious of time - take charge, set clear goals, and engage your team

Rakuten provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type. Rakuten considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, provincial or local laws.