Job Description

Are you looking to be an integral part of a development team delivering high-quality features for exciting next-generation products? Do you want to contribute to the cutting-edge, high-quality technology and products NGINX is known for worldwide? If so, we'd love to hear from you. The F5 NGINX Business Unit is searching for experienced Quality Engineers to join us in either Seattle, WA, Boulder, CO, San Francisco, CA, or Cork, Ireland.  On our team, you will have a major hand in development, modification, and execution of software testing and test automation for NGINX’s control plane applications. Our control plane products make it easy for customers to improve the performance, reliability, and security of their applications. You will apply your talent, knowledge, skills, and experience to ensure the software quality we are known. 

About You: 

• Quality first mindset and low tolerance to imperfections 

• Passionate about test automation 

• Proficient in designing/creating test automation frameworks 

• Always on a lookout for improvements and optimizations 

• Constantly upgrading skills by exploring new tools and techniques

• Results-oriented and positive team-oriented attitude

• Able to work with geographically distributed teams

• Proactive and takes initiatives

• Quick learner and driver for a change

• Critical thinker with great problem-solving skills

• Good time-management skills and obsessively organized

• Great interpersonal and communication skills 

Responsibilities: 

• Champion for product quality within the team and is accountable for an assessment of product readiness and commitments on product delivery schedules

• Develop high-quality, end-to-end automation tests that match acceptance criteria and user scenarios

• Provide input into coding best practices with an emphasis on increasing code testability and maintainabilitye

• A key contributor to the continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines 

• Help develop and build the test infrastructure with the DevOps team 

• Work with the product management team to define good Acceptance Criteria for our stories 

• Perform manual exploratory testing to help identify difficult to find bugs and UX issues 

• Ensure the monthly releases are validated and ready for our customers 

• Work with a distributed agile team 

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: 

• Bachelor's degree in software engineering, computer science, or related field and 5+ years of work experience in relevant roles 

• Experience writing automated end-to-end tests for a large enterprise application and SaaS products 

• Solid experience with Linux operating systems 

• Deep understanding of software quality methodologies and processes 

• Experience with developing test automation code using Python and/or Javascript 

• Experience with CI/CD and project management tools (e.g., Gitlab, CI/CD tools, Jira, Confluence, etc.) 

• Experience with web technologies (e.g., REST, JSON etc.) 

• Experience with test automation frameworks (e.g., Pytest/Cucumber/WebdriverIO/Selenium) 

• Experience with public clouds (e.g., Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform) 

• Preferable: Experience with container technologies (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker, etc.) 

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The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

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