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Job Description:

Blue Planet Inventory is looking for test and test process automation engineers with the experience in the following areas:

Responsible for designing, developing, and implementing automated testing solutions leveraging Gen AI and Agentic AI technologies.

Key responsibilities include:

• Test case design
• Creating and maintaining automated test cases
• Automating test execution using WebdriverIO (WDIO)
• Implementing API test case automation
• Streamlining and automating various testing processes
• Building and enhancing auto-test frameworks
• Generating, analyzing, and reporting test results

The role requires strong communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and ensure smooth integration of AI-driven automation into the testing lifecycle.

General Activities

Major activities involve:

• Test tasks and process automation leveraging Gen AI and Agentic AI technologies
• Ongoing communication with PV teams and integration of the automation in the teams
• Solid expertise in automated testing of distributed systems including mission critical ones
• Having extensive experience in types of testing – Static, System, Functional, Regression, Smoke, Integration testing, Load testing
• Passion for automation, tools development, convenient representation of analytical data
• Coding E2E Automated tests for the Angular UI frontend with Cucumber and Webdriver.io
• Coding Rest API testing automation with Cucumber and Node.js Axios framework
• Coding of System testing with Cucumber and Node.js Axios framework, ansible, bash scripting
• Analysis of test results that may require investigating data in the database (writing queries, etc.)
• Full regression execution and reporting
• Ability to do research and find the best and effective way of test automation implementation for required functionality leveraging Gen AI and Agentic AI
• Deep knowledge of containerization/virtualization and other infrastructure-as-a-service platforms (e.g., Docker and related, Kubernetes, Open Stack)
• Strong experience in scripting: Shell, JS
• Strong operational experience in Linux environment
• Experience developing using AWS technologies
• Good knowledge of popular CI/CD frameworks (preferably Jenkins, Team City)
• Collaboration with stakeholders
• Work in a global team environment
• Attend status calls with stakeholders as needed
• Work closely with the product team

EXPECTATIONS

• Frontend testing frameworks/libraries: Cucumber, Webdriver.io, Protractor, TypeScript
• Backend testing: Rest API testing automation tools, Cucumber, Node.js, TypeScript
• Load testing: JMeter, Grafana + Prometheus
• Deployment models: Docker, Kubernetes
• Testing Theory: terminology, testing types, asynchronous automated testing
• Continuous Integration Tools: Jenkins, TeamCity, GitLab
• Environments: AWS, Azure, Google cloud
• Version control system: Git, Bitbucket
• Builds: Maven, NPM, JVM, NodeJS
• Ticketing: Jira
• Documentation: Confluence, Gitlab
• Databases: PostgreSQL, Neo4j
• Test Management: Test Rail
• Solid expertise in automated testing of distributed systems including mission critical ones
• Having experience in types of testing – Static, System, Functional, Regression, Smoke, Integration testing, Load testing
• Hands-on experience of CI/CD pipeline configuration and maintenance
• Strong experience with SQL and Cypher queries, and Database structure
• Solid operational and administrator experience with Unix operation systems
• Understanding of Web application and Microservice solution architecture

DESIRABLE

• Frontend programming/markup languages: Typescript/JavaScript, html, CSS, SVG
• Frontend development frameworks/libraries: Angular 2+, Node.js/npm, D3.js, gulp
• Backend programming/markup languages: Java/J2EE
• Backend development frameworks/libraries: maven, Spring Data/Security/MVC
• App Server: Apache Tomcat
• DB: Neo4j (graph DB), PostgreSQL+TimescaleDB
• Other Skills: Elastic Search, Drools, Kafka integration, REST (on Spring MVC), SSO (LDAP, Reverse Proxy, OAuth2)
• System testing: Bash, Shell, Python, Ansible scripting
• Programming theory: algorithms and data structures, relational and graph database concepts, etc.
• Domain: Telecom, OSS, Inventory

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