Senior Test Automation Engineer

At the center of it all, our dedicated IT teams innovate, design and develop the technology that is redefining how customers rent, buy and share vehicles from our family of brands. Here, you will be part of a diverse and talented team that creates and delivers powerful technology solutions for our customers and employees across the world with the resources and support to develop in a variety of career paths.

As an Enterprise Mobility team member, we offer an excellent package with market-competitive pay, comprehensive healthcare packages, 401k matching & profit sharing, schedule flexibility, work from home opportunities, paid time off, and organizational growth potential.

This position is eligible for a hybrid work schedule, which includes the ability to work from home, while also requiring to be in person as needed at our Lakeside and/or Clayton Corporate HQ campus locations in St. Louis, Missouri.

We are committed to a fair and transparent hiring process. Candidates should expect identity verification, video interviews, technical validation of skills, and verification of employment, education, and work authorization. Falsification of information, proxy interviewing, or misrepresentation of experience or location will result in disqualification.

Responsibilities

The Automated Rental Management System (ARMS) department is seeking an innovative and result-oriented Engineer 2, Test Automation to help with the modernization efforts. ARMS is an application that manages the insurance replacement business by providing an interface for direct interaction between Insurance partners and Enterprise. We are focused on bringing additional value to our insurance partners through technology and innovative solutions. These solutions enhance the customer’s experience, create efficiencies, improve claims outcomes, and reduce loss adjustment expenses. Enterprise continuously strives to modernize our applications to keep pace with the competitive market, and ARMS has upcoming projects to modernize applications. This is an exciting time to be part of the ARMS team.

As an Engineer 2, Test Automation o n ARMS Modernization team, you will be responsible for using your technical knowledge and professional experience to test the quality of the services in an automated manner and drive the department forward on its journey to build and mature its test automation suite. You should have experience in creating and maintaining automated and manual test scripts and E2E tests for applications as well as REST APIs. This role will be responsible for executing automated and manual test suites and assessing and evaluating quality assurance test requirements to determine the scope to be covered by the automated testing suite. You will be responsible for developing, designing, executing, and maintaining automated test suites and test cases, as well as manual test suites for those tests that may not qualify for automation. You will also participate in code reviews of automated test code, debug automated test code, provide estimates for assignments, and assist with sprint planning activities.

Typical Responsibilities Will Include

• Developing professional expertise
• Focusing on defined strategic and tactical activities.
• Participating on project teams
• Working on moderate to complex assignments
• Establishing and fostering one-on-one relationships within and outside the department
• Automate functional, regression, and smoke tests using internal and open-source tools
• Define test specifications for functional and integration testing.
• Manual testing and coverage for new features that have not yet been automated.
• Create and maintain test plans as our product grows in functionality.
• Experience in development using JavaScript (React.js, Node.js, modern JavaScript libraries - ES6 - 2015 and later versions)
• Experience working with databases and various data formats and related technologies for testing.

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Proven track record of working in Agile teams that may be geographically distributed, as well as working independently by self-managing priorities based on the team’s composition
• Experience working closely with development and test teams to ensure the final code delivery meets product, quality, and performance standards
• Ability to contribute to overall improvement of quality engineering practices by removing redundancies, sharing knowledge etc.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong time management skills
• Strong knowledge of various computer systems and technologies with an ability to learn new skills and technology quickly
• Experience maintaining established service level agreements to meet customer expectations and quality service
• Ability to be productive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, with changing priorities

Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veterans

Qualifications

Required

• Must be presently authorized to work in the U.S. without a requirement for work authorization sponsorship by our company for this position now or in the future
• Must reside in St. Louis, Missouri, or immediate surrounding area
• 3+ years hands on experience with developing and integrating automated tests into an existing development and continuous integration processes
• Experience with Java, JavaScript, SQL, XML, SOAP, REST, JSON, Unix, Windows, AWS
• Experience coordinating and/or conducting re-testing after defects are addressed and summarizing and publishing test results for internal customers
• Experience executing automated test scripts that are already developed, analyzing results, and providing timely and accurate feedback to development teams
• Experience participating in estimation discussions with the product and engineering teams
• Must be committed to incorporating security into all decisions and daily job responsibilities

Preferred

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Management Information Systems, or a related field
• Good working knowledge on essential Cloud services on AWS is a plus.
• Startup mentality: self-starter, proactive, flexible
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Design and develop system test automation scripts using Playwright, Jest, Cucumber, Postman, and Karate
• Support test automation solution planning and estimation
• 5+ years of experience in test automation including planning, assessments, script development & maintenance preferably in cloud environment; experience in manual functional and regression testing and preparing relevant test cases
• Experience with the Atlassian suite including Jira, Confluence, BitBucket (Git)
• Experience working with PostgreSQL and Azure