QA Automation Engineer

Description

Principal Duties and Responsibilities The Senior QA Automation Engineer is responsible for validation of the quality, performance, resiliency, and security of Bose's cloudbased services, which enable customer experiences across our devices (speakers, headsets, and home theatre), mobile applications, and cloud partners such as music services, voice personal assistants, and integrators. Duties include designing test strategies and frameworks for automation, and test planning, implementation, execution, and reporting.The successful candidate will have significant automation test experience in largescale distributed systems, as well as excellent interpersonal and communication skills required to partner with product development teams, system architects, and stakeholders across the business. Responsibilities include Handson involvement in all phases of product development, including planning, design, implementation, and execution of manual and automated tests, defect logging and verification, and reporting results Design and develop automation frameworks and test suites to test Bose products and services, working with Engineering, QA, System Architects, Product Owners, and others Understand frameworks, approaches, and test strategies used by peer teams; leverage, extend, and share wherever possible Implement, track, and report key metrics to assure full coverage of functional and nonfunctional requirements Coordinate with teams across the Software and Systems Group to assure endtoend verification of functionality across all systems components Consistently improve test automation infrastructure and coverage Champion quality throughout the development process Work with development teams to facilitate unit and integration tests Qualifications B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent 9+ years' industry experience in QA or Software Engineering 3+ years' experience designing, implementing, and executing automated tests Experience developing or testing cloudbased microservices AWS, Azure, or similar platforms Mastery of Python, Perl, JavaScript, or similar scripting languages Experience using common automation frameworks Excellent interpersonal, communication, collaboration, and presentation skills Comfortable engaging crossfunctional partners including development teams, system architects, product management, and Support Strong sense of ownership, passionate, fast learner, detailoriented, analytical mindset, perfection seeker. Familiarity with version control, bug tracking, and CI / CD systems and procedures One or more of the following are highly desirable Knowledge of dynamic server coding environments such as Python, Ruby, or NodeJS a plus Experience with cloudbased distributed applications and / or data processing in the cloud a plus Understanding and use of APIs in largescale distributed systems a plus Experience with RESTful web services and the JSON data format a plus Experience with network protocols preferred Familiarity with Linuxbased systems and mobile applications (iOS and Android) preferred What you can expect at Bose Working with wicked smart, super cool people in a campuslike atmosphere Working with leadingedge technologies to deliver excellent experiences to customers A culture of excellence, respect, opportunity and passion for innovation Opportunity to make a significant impact at a company whose brand is the gold standard in the industry