Senior Software Test Engineer

Job Modality: Remote

Location: Costa Rica

About the role

The Senior Software Test Engineer role is focused on delivery of efforts in our client’s Costa Rica center to ensure full regression and performance test coverage for ongoing Client’s Civic Platform (SaaS) releases, as well as on technical efforts to continue to advance Accela up the maturity curve for Test Automation, Test-Driven Development, CI/CD, and Performance Engineering.

Joining this company means stepping into a world where career progression and skill development are paramount.

You will collaborate with world-class application engineers and a leadership team renowned for expertise in Architecture, Operations, and Security, actively fostering your growth.

Specific Responsibilities

• Accountable for the successful launch and delivery of new, key Accela Product Releases, Engineering Initiatives, alignment for Cloud deployments activities.
• Design, develop, and execute test plans, test cases, and test scenarios to ensure the quality and reliability of software products.
• Develop and enhance framework to better track, with cost planning, establishing KPI’s, standards and improved baselines, and production scaling with efficacy.
• Contribute to functional, automation, infrastructure, Initiatives that impact the cross-functional organization with automated deployment and regression testing.
• Provide technical expertise on requirement analysis, design, effort estimation, testing, and delivery of scalable and SaaS solutions, establishing statistical model and optionally machine learning models.
• Identify gaps, issues and proactively define, plan, and strategize activities, process, and workflows.
• Provide technical expertise with teams in areas of development, performance, and scalability in line with Agile development practices.
• Develop test suites for release testing and release deployments.
• Continuously enhance testing strategies, methodologies, and best practices to improve product quality and testing efficiency.
• Automate API and UI testing for web-based products and application services using JMeter, Python with Robot frameworks and open-source tools.
• Integrate test cycles with CI/CD pipeline.
• Work creatively and efficiently in troubleshooting and resolution of system issues.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including developers, product managers, and quality assurance, to identify test requirements and drive the testing process.
• Stay updated with industry trends, emerging technologies, and testing techniques to incorporate best practices into the testing process

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or any related discipline.

• 4+ years of quality engineering, hands on experience with functional testing, test automation & Performance using open-source tools.

• Good knowledge of frontend and backend application testing, API and Mobile testing, and

integration with DevOps pipeline.

• Experience in SaaS products, API services and Pipeline activities; a plus.

• Proficiency in testing methodologies, tools, and techniques, including Agile methodologies

and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.

• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve software

issues effectively.

• Ability to collaborate closely with clear communication skills.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience in Python/Java based automation development and Robot Framework

Automation is a big plus.

• Knowledge of Java based application testing is highly desired, especially with Angular a huge plus.