QA Automation Engineer

LotusFlare is a provider of cloud-native SaaS products based in the heart of Silicon Valley. Founded by the team that helped Facebook reach over one billion users, LotusFlare was founded to make affordable mobile communications available to everyone on Earth.

Today, LotusFlare focuses on designing, building, and continuously evolving a digital commerce and monetization platform that delivers valuable outcomes for enterprises. Our platform, Digital Network Operator® (DNO™) Cloud, is licensed to telecommunications services providers and supports millions of customers globally.

LotusFlare has also designed and built the leading eSIM travel product - Nomad. Nomad provides global travelers with high-speed, affordable data connectivity in over 190 countries. Nomad is available as an iOS or Android app or via getnomad.app.

Job Description and Responsibilities:

We are seeking a talented and motivated QA Engineer to join our team in developing internal testing tools that can grow alongside our fast evolving products. This role is pivotal in ensuring that our testing framework is robust, efficient, and capable of scaling with the growing needs of our engineering and product teams.

You will collaborate closely with other engineers and product managers to design, implement, and maintain tools that support automated testing processes. Your work will directly contribute to improving the quality, reliability, and performance of our software products.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain internal testing tools with a primary focus on accelerating back end testing while ensuring coverage of all product use cases.
• Collaborate with software engineers, QA engineers, and product teams to understand testing requirements and independently determine the appropriate solutions to address their needs.
• Develop robust and scalable backend systems to generate, manage, and deliver test data sets that closely simulate real-world conditions and edge cases.
• Integrate with CI/CD pipelines to automate testing in the development lifecycle.
• Create and manage APIs or services that can be used by other teams to access and manipulate generated test data.
• Continuously evaluate and improve testing strategies, identifying areas for optimization and automation while ensuring alignment with the growth of the product.
• Provide support and troubleshooting for testing tools in use by the team, ensuring smooth integration into the testing processes.
• Stay up to date with emerging technologies and best practices in testing, backend development, and data generation.

Job Requirements:

Functional Requirements:

• Familiarity with BSS or TM Forum standards strongly preferred.
• Experience in creating internal testing tools that can grow alongside the core products it supports. 
• Ability to create and execute a roadmap towards testing maturity.
• Work with product managers and technical leads to distill their real world testing. requirements into practical tooling that can be used across the organization.

Technical Requirements:

• 3+ years of prior experience as QA Automation Engineer, SDET, SDE or similar software engineering roles.
• Fluent in a modern programming language, preferably Typescript and its eco-system.
• Experienced in the end-to-end software development lifecycle (design, implementation, debugging, testing, and maintenance).
• Can produce reusable, maintainable, and well documented web application codes.
• Experience with sql databases such as postgresql, mysql or mongoDB.
• Good understanding of the network stack, HTTP protocol, and RESTful services.

Extra technical assets:

• Experience with Amazon Web Services
• Typescript, NodeJS and its related backend stack
• ReactJS
• Experience with AI tools and IDE to accelerate development

About us:

At LotusFlare, we attract and keep amazing people by offering two key things:

• Purposeful Work: Every team member sees how their efforts make a tangible, positive difference for our customers and partners.
• Growth Opportunities: We provide the chance to develop professionally while mastering cutting-edge practices in cloud-native enterprise software.

From the beginning, our mission has been to simplify technology to create better experiences for customers. Using an “experience down” approach, which prioritizes the customer's journey at every stage of development, our Digital Network Operator™ Cloud empowers communication service providers to achieve valuable business outcomes. DNO Cloud enables communication service providers to innovate freely, reduce operational costs, monetize network assets, engage customers on all digital channels, drive customer acquisition, and increase retention.

With headquarters in Santa Clara, California, and five major offices worldwide, LotusFlare serves Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile, A1, Globe Telecom, Liberty Latin America, Singtel, and other leading enterprises around the world.

• Website: www.lotusflare.com
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