Test Automation Engineer
Yello’s talent acquisition software helps companies reinvent how they recruit, to hire the right candidates at the right time. Our client-partners include more than 70 Fortune 500 companies and dozens more high-growth organizations. We’re proud to be a 2016 Built in Chicago Moxie Award winner for Best B2B Company and an Illinois Technology Association CityLIGHTS Award winner for Outstanding Technology Development. We continue to grow quickly, and we’re looking to hire people who believe nothing is impossible, love to learn and be curious, can be accountable for success, always enjoy the journey and will own their personality. If this is you, come grow your career with Yello.
You will drive test automation for Yello’s web software to continuously improve quality. As a member of our enterprise development group, you will build out a set of modern test automation suites for Ruby and Java applications. You will architect and maintain modularized test plans, communicate with your team about bugs and issues and build test pipelines to ensure our applications continue to meet the highest quality standards.
- Design, develop, and execute a series of highly effective automated test suites for our Ruby web applications
- Build out and maintain a set of organized, modern test plans with well defined test cases
- Utilize CI tools such as Jenkins and Gitlab CI to run high performance, automated tests
- Identify and describe bugs, performance issues and security risks in our Ruby applications using a variety of tools
- Transform lists of business requirements into detailed, organized sets of test cases
- Work with the production support team on issues that require advanced troubleshooting
- Champion a culture of quality throughout the development team
- Work with dev leads to enforce and establish processes and standards such as code reviews, appropriate testing levels, and an overall quality strategy to minimize defects
- Mentor and train junior test engineers
- Knowledge of the agile software development processes
- 3+ years of experience working with test automation using open source tools
- Exceptional scripting skills using Ruby-based tools such as RSpec, Cucumber and Capybara
- Strong understanding of current web testing methodologies and philosophies
- Ability to efficiently perform manual testing to address edge cases
- Understanding of Linux command line usage and script execution
- Familiarity with REST APIs and API testing approaches
- Familiarity with the Rails framework and MVC architecture
- Four-year degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
- Experience building continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Yello’s mission is to eliminate gaps in the hiring experience. You will play an essential role in achieving this mission by collaborating with team members to create high-quality software for Fortune 500 global enterprises and high-growth companies.
At Yello, we work together to improve the hiring experience and power recruitment programs. Every Yello team member is empowered to grow each day and achieve new career accomplishments, and we always make time to celebrate team members’ successes. Our Loop office is steps away from public transportation, overlooks Lake Michigan and our open concept office offers plenty of space to collaborate with colleagues, or to work independently. We offer health, dental and vision insurance, a competitive 401k match, a reimbursement for fitness memberships and support for ongoing learning. Above all, we look forward to coming to work each day to solve interesting problems and make the impossible, possible.
- Yello is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.
- Candidates local to Chicago are preferred.
- You must be authorized to work in the United States.