Senior Automation Tester - Playwright Porto

Senior Automation Tester - Playwright
Porto
Porto, Porto District, Portugal

Who We Are: At VML, we are a beacon of innovation and growth in an
- evolving world. Our heritage is built upon a century of combined expertise, where creativity meets technology, and diverse perspectives ignite inspiration. With the merger of VMLY&R and Wunderman Thompson, we have forged a new path as a growth partner that is part creative agency, part consultancy, and part technology powerhouse.

Our global family now encompasses over 30, 000 employees across 150+ offices in 64 markets, each contributing to a culture that values connection, belonging, and the power of differences.

We are looking for a Senior Automation Tester to join us on a permanent basis, from either our Lisbon or Porto office.

The opportunity:

Leveraging your expertise in Type
Script, Playwright, and Cucumber, you'll design and implement
- edge automated tests, embracing a BDD approach to ensure the quality and reliability of our applications. This role offers the chance to work across the full testing spectrum, from UI and API testing to database validation, all within a
- paced Agile environment.

What you’ll be doing:

Your primary responsibilities will revolve around ensuring the quality and reliability of an ecommerce application through robust automated testing. You will be developing and maintaining Automated Tests using Type
Script, Playwright, and Cucumber, following the BDD approach. You will be heavily involved in UI, API and DB testing, ensuring the quality and stability of the e
Commerce platform by building and maintaining a comprehensive suite of automated tests and actively participating in the software development lifecycle.

What we want from you:

1. Experience in testing e
   Commerce applications
2. Extensive experience of test automation using Type
   Script, Playwright, and Cucumber
3. Proficiency in working within Agile environments and
   - sprint automation
4. Hands-on experience with Behavioural Driven Development (BDD) using Cucumber & Gherkin
5. Strong knowledge and demonstrated experience in testing APIs and web services
6. Experience in Accessibility testing and Visual testing using Playwright
7. Proficient in backend testing, including familiarity with databases (DB2, Oracle) and SQL querying
8. Hands-on experience with UNIX commands and log verifications
9. Experience testing RESTful services using Playwright or similar frameworks
10. Automation first approach mindset, ability to identify data requirements and implement tests to achieve coverage
11. Proficient in recommending and implementing improvements to test automation frameworks using Type
    Script or Java
    Script
12. Experience in testing automation within a continuous integration environment
13. Familiarity with source code control systems like Git
    Hub, Bit
    Bucket, or similar
14. Collaboration in daily
    - ups and close collaboration with team developers
15. Utilisation of feedback from all stakeholders to expand test scenarios
16. Demonstrated ability to adapt and reprioritise in a
    - paced team environment
17. Effective interpersonal skills and proven ability to collaborate with all stakeholders
18. Attention to detail and highly organised

If you know some of this, even better:

1. Retail sector experience
2. Experience working with Cypress
3. Experience of IBM Web
   Sphere Commerce, Magento, Hybris or other e
   Commerce platforms
4. Experience of using Jira, Rally or Azure tools
5. Experience with Jenkins, Git
   Hub Actions or Azure pipelines

What we can offer you:

Alongside the opportunity to work with some of the most exciting brands around the world, we’ll also prioritise your career development and help you grow your skills. We offer a great benefits package including social events, training opportunities, medical and dental insurance, life assurance, meal cards and much more.

Our personality and behaviours:

We believe that we are what we do, not just what we say. Our shared values and behaviours show how to bring the VML Enterprise Solution's culture to life through the actions we all take every day:

1. Connect Meaningfully
2. Inspire Creatively
3. Include Purposefully
4. Approach Positively

Our brilliant, talented people are what makes VML Enterprise Solutions what we are. That’s why we look for people who go beyond and always push our thinking to be better than yesterday.

VML is a WPP Agency. For more information, please visit our website, and follow VML on our social channels via Instagram, Linked
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