QA Automation Engineer

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Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we are committed to building a diverse team that feels they are valued in the workplace. So do you feel you do not meet every single requirement but still intrigued? We encourage you to still apply! You can help make our company even better. We do not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, age, mental or physical ability, or any way you represent yourself. We strongly believe diversity makes for more successful teams.

Why Protolabs?

We are the leaders in digital manufacturing. We hire doers, makers, and creative thinkers who tackle our roles with an entrepreneurial spirit. Our culture is centered around meaningful work that brings new and innovative products to market at unprecedented speeds. We are a diverse team that comes from all walks of life and take pride in our team who is smart, genuine, humble, and passionate about what we do. It’s our people who fuel our creativity and make our culture feel like home.

We are hiring for a QA Automation Engineer (6 month contract ) to join our team! As a QAE your main goal will be in implementing and executing both manual and automated testing strategies. Including such activities as test planning, manual and automated functional testing, exploratory testing, bug review, and reporting.

You'll be an integral part of our team working closely with Engineering & Product to suggest new ideas for improving our platform and processes.

Our tech stack: BE: Python (FastAPi/Flask/SQLAlchemy), FE: AngularDB: PostgreSQL, Queues: RabbitMQ, Infrastructure:Docker, k8s, Concourse, AWS (EC2, ECS, RDS, S3).

What you'll do:

* Test planning and feature testing in agile environment
* Bug review, reporting on test results and sharing information regarding the product state with stakeholders
* Functional automated testing (Python; PyTest; Playwright, Httpx)
* Maintaining automated testing framework by adding new end-to-end as well as API tests and keeping existing up to date

What it takes:

* Professional experience in manual testing of web applications 
* Experience in test automation of web products 
* Experience with Python and PyTest
* Understanding of PageObject pattern and OOP
* Experience with GIT
* 2+ years test experience 

Bonus Points for

* Experience with continuous integration tools (Jenkins/GitHub/GitLab etc) and processes
* Experience with Docker 
* Experience in load or performance testing
* Experience with TestRail, Allure TestOps and GitHub (actions)