Position Description:
Senior QA Automation Engineer with Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers (America) Inc. located in Westchester, IL. Responsible for defining and executing team’s test and Quality Assurance (QA) strategy; Responsible for all QA practices for the web and services (integration) platform within assigned domain; Utilize enterprise web development and full technology stack, including: Web Apps automation experience using Playwright; use K6 Scripts for load and performance tests; conduct DevOps development with CircleCI and Github; Use monitoring tools including Honeycomb and/or Datadog; Collaborate with Staff QA Engineer(s), Tech Leads, designers, product managers, and developers to deliver compelling and efficient tools/products; Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues; Develop scalable performant solutions; set engineering and architectural direction across domains with a focus on QA; develop testing strategies and test cases; Use CI/CD and drive automated pipeline solutions; work with Kubernetes and container deployment patterns/solutions; Coach and train a team of Jr Quality Assurance Engineers, while continuing to be hands on with QA activities; Collaborate with designers, product managers, developers, and other leaders throughout the business to deliver compelling and efficient tools/products; Participate in implementation of the full stack web experience and be responsible for all leveraging best development practices with the web and services (integration) platform; Champion QA and architectural quality, implementing strategies to safely and reliably make changes to production systems frequently and sustainably.
Requirements:
Requires a Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer technology, information systems, software engineering, or related field, and 6 years of experience as a software engineer or related occupation;
Alternatively, a Master’s degree computer science, computer technology, information systems, software engineering, or related field, and at least 3 years of experience as a software engineer or related occupation.
Must possess a minimum of 5 years of experience with Bachelor’s, or 3 years of experience with Master’s, with each of the following: Enterprise automation test development and technology stack including: Web Apps automation experience using at least one of the following: Selenium Web Driver/Playwright / Cypress; K6 Scripts for load and performance tests; DevOps experience including CircleCI and Github; Monitoring tools including either Honeycomb or Datadog; Developing scalable performant solution; Setting engineering and architectural direction across a specific domain of an organization with a focus on QA; Developing of testing strategies and test cases; CI/CD experience and ability to drive automated pipeline solutions; and Kubernetes and container deployment patterns/solutions.
May telecommute from anywhere in the U.S. Expect 10-15% travel to the RB Global Chicago office for team collaboration sessions at minimum quarterly, but sometimes monthly.
Salary: $153,317/year
To apply, please contact Zeeshan Syed via email at zsyed@rbglobal.com or apply online at: https://careers.rbglobal.com.
RB Global full-time employees are offered medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurances. Employees are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan and RB Global will match 100% for the first 4% contributed. Employees will also receive 15 days of PTO each year.