Test Automation Engineer, Backend
FOSS Software Services
Nils Foss Allé 1
3400 Hillerød
Contact
Artem Vasiuk
Country
Denmark
Test Automation Engineer, Backend
At FOSS, we provide world-leading analytical solutions that support the sustainable use of our planet’s agricultural resources, contributing to global nutrition and health. Our goal is to lead the way in innovation through the unmatched quality of our products and services, supported by a team of skilled and passionate employees. If you're excited to make a real impact and start each week with purpose, we'd love to hear from you.
The job
We are looking for an API (Backend) Test Automation Engineer to help write and maintain automated integration tests for our recently launched SaaS called IQX, a centralized platform for managing, optimizing, and monitoring food production analytical instruments.
We expect you to take over our existing Automated Testing codebase based on Postman and develop it into a generic test automation setup. As a Backend Test Automation Engineer, you’ll be responsible for converting complex backend use cases into automated test scenarios that are clean, reusable, and scalable.
The position is based at our headquarters in Hillerød, where many of the product stakeholders are also based: R&D, IQX Operations and IQX Product Management. As part of QA team located also in Warsaw, you should expect some travelling of about 2-3 times a year. You will be reporting to the Head of QA in Denmark and be an integral part of IQX Development team.
Primary tasks
- Write automated integration tests to connect cloud-based services to web-apps
- Deploy and manage regression tests on CI/CD (Azure) and maintain Continuous Testing process
- Perform manual tests where automated tests are impossible or not practical
- Provide meaningful inputs for the dashboards like test coverage & test run statistics
- Participate in triaging defects
- Demonstrate a collaborative and supportive approach when working with cross-functional agile teams
- Collaborate with Product Owners in defining and prioritizing your work into sprints
Qualifications
- 3+ years of backend software testing experience
- Experience with writing API tests using Postman and JavaScript
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines
- Solid experience in testing RESTful applications
- Focused on software quality assurance and test automation
- Ability to work with multiple technologies with a capacity to pick up new ones as required
- ISTQB (or similar) certifications
Personal skills
- Analytical mindset, the ability to understand and test all options for interaction between the user and the system
- Good communication skills and ability to formulate a problem clearly and concisely
- Security and Performance testing minded attitude to QA activities
- Experience working in distributed teams & environment
- We are an international company therefore we expect your English to be fluent
We offer
The opportunity to join a very dynamic and growth-oriented division within FOSS. IQX and its Software-as-a-Service model is a key strategic initiative to complement the analytical instruments business pillar. FOSS has been committed to innovation for more than 60 years, so this is the place if you would like to make a difference in the food and feed value chains.
Application
Send your application by using the link below. Note that we only receive applications via the link. We conduct interviews on a regular basis, so we recommend that you apply as soon as possible. For further information regarding the job, please do not hesitate to contact Artem Vasiuk via avk@foss.dk
More info about IQX: https://iqx.net
All applications for vacant positions will be welcomed and will be considered on the relative merits of the applicant against the role profile for the position regardless of nationality, ethnicity, sex, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, parental responsibilities, age, religion, or belief. FOSS is committed to maintaining an inclusive culture and a diverse workforce. You can help us sustain an unbiased recruitment process by not including photo or age in your application.
FOSS
Today, more than 8 billion people around the world are dependent on nutritional food. Tons of food being produced in a million different ways and under varying conditions, creating challenges all the way from field to fork. One of them, obviously, being the effects it has on climate change.
FOSS helps the world’s 100 biggest food companies and more than 40,000 others around the world navigate exactly that with intelligent, data-driven and innovative analytical solutions. We are making sustainability a better business and we’re doing so as global market leader in our field – improving food quality, minimizing food waste, ensuring food safety, and securing fair payment.
Join a pioneering and innovative company in the food and agriculture industry. A company on a mission, with offices all around the world and 1,700 talented colleagues from more than 32 different countries.