Senior Test Automation Engineer I

About the opportunity

We’re looking for a Senior Test Automation Engineer to join our Transactions Tribe. We manage the checkout, order placement, payments and wallets for our platform in 21 countries, and process millions of orders a month.

We’re embarking on an intensive effort to improve our system test automation through integration, contract and other forms of test automation. This involves working with staff engineers responsible for various services and our foundation tribe infrastructure teams to build tooling, working with several teams to set up testing infrastructure and helping them to make our test automation tooling easier to use, more trustworthy and shows impact through reduced shipping times.

**Responsibilities**
- Cataloging existing automation test coverage within teams, and identifying gaps in test coverage
- Work with tech leads to prioritising which gaps to fill, with the goal of creating an automation test suite providing fast feedback to engineers as they evolve their systems.
- Set up test environments specific to individual services including setting up of mocks and data setup to simulate behaviours in production.
- Demonstrate how to test specific types of scenarios and then enable engineers to create a more comprehensive test suite with planning support and tooling enhancements where necessary.
- Collaborate with other TA leads to combine efforts to build tooling required to maintain a large scale test suite
- Define on the product and quality metrics, logs, alerts; analyse and prioritise observability improvements
- Perform exploratory and usability testing when necessary

What you need to be successful
- 5+ years work experience in quality assurance
- 3+ years of experience in API or system testing
- Strong knowledge and experience in test automation engineering
- Experience with relational databases and queueing systems
- Experience with GCP and/or AWS
- Experience with setting up and configuring CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Jenkins, TravisCI, Drone)
- Familiar with common logging, monitoring, alerting tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Kibana, etc.
- Experience using Docker to run local test automation
- Strong troubleshooting skills
- Experience with defining and executing QA strategy
- Ability to create and maintain testing documentation
- Ability to quickly understand complex technical concepts and transpose them into clear concise documentation
- Background in fast-paced, entrepreneurial, startup/tech environments preferred.
- Fluency in English (our corporate language) and great communication skills.

**Nice to Have Skills**
- Understanding of contract testing using tools like Pact or Spring Cloud Contracts
- Understanding of service-oriented and microservices architectural patterns
- Knowledge of SRE practices, reliability principles, chaos engineering
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, Helm

Who we are

“To be the most loved everyday food and groceries destination” - that’s our mission at foodpanda (small ‘f’).

foodpanda is the largest food and grocery delivery platform in Asia, outside of China. Operating in more than 400 cities across 11 markets, we continue to expand and grow in our core food delivery business, as well as in new verticals like grocery deliveries, with a strong tech infrastructure at our core. From our restaurants-partners, cloud kitchens and cloud grocery stores — foodpanda is just one tap away, getting everything you need into your hands quickly and conveniently

If you love working with technology to create solutions and are not afraid to roll up your sleeves to get things done, you will find your tribe here at foodpanda. foodpanda comprises of people from more than 60 nationalities, and we believe in winning through diversity.
foodpanda is part of the Delivery Hero Group, the world’s leading local delivery platform operating in 70+ countries worldwide

What's in it for you

**What we offer**
- A dynamic and challenging work environment.
- A company committed to developing you personally and professionally.
- A great working atmosphere with regular company and team events.
- A vibrant and international team committed to diversity and inclusion.
- Responsibility from day one in a fast growing and global company.
- Other benefits include free food, health and dental insurance, and learning and development opportunities

Our parent company, Delivery Hero, is a global leader in the food delivery industry processing over 3 million orders every day and operating in 40+ markets in the world, with 18,000 employees and approximately 500,000+ restaurant partners.