Senior Test Automation Developer

SSENSE (pronounced [es-uhns]) is a global technology platform operating at the intersection of culture, community, and commerce. Headquartered in Montreal, it features a mix of established and emerging luxury brands across womenswear, menswear, kidswear, and Everything Else. 

SSENSE has garnered critical acclaim as both an e-commerce engine and a producer of cultural content, generating an average of 100 million monthly page views. Approximately 80% of its audience is between the ages of 18 to 40. It is privately held and has achieved high double digit annual growth and profitability since its inception.

Reporting to the Quality Assurance Manager, the Senior Test Automation Developer is responsible for the development of automation frameworks, establishing infrastructure to convey automated testing, and the creation and execution of automated test scripts. He/She is a key player in the implementation of a Continuous Integration and Delivery strategy, working cross-functionally to understand solution requirements and assist in the development of test strategies and plans utilizing test automation best practices.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design, implement, improve and maintain automated tests for web / mobile products and microservices

• Collaborate cross-functionally to implement efficient testing strategies

• Support the implementation of a Continuous Integration and Delivery strategy

• Determine and plan automation targets from the current test suites

• Improve applications testability by suggesting design improvements

• Analyse test results and coverage reports using standardized QA processes

• Conduct performance and security testing

• Write and maintain documentation

• Enhance best practices and software development guidelines

• Mentor team members as they learn about test automation, helping them decrease time to production delivery and increase code quality and unit test coverage

• Write efficient and reusable code that respects best practices and software development guidelines

• Research and stay abreast of emerging test automation solutions

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or a related field

• A minimum of 5 years experience in development or a QA related field

• A minimum of 4 years experience in Test Automation Development, preferably in an e-commerce environment

• Know the fundamentals of how an electronic payment is processed or how a Warehouse Management System works

• Strong experience with web development life cycle, from requirement gathering to deployment

• Extensive experience with Node.js, Webdriver (Protractor) and Jasmine

• Experience working in Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment environments with tools such as Travis and Jenkins

• Experience with continuous integration environment using Git, Kubernetes, Docker, Maven, and/or Jenkins

• Knowledgeable and opinionated about test-driven development techniques (BDD, TDD) and related frameworks like Cucumber

• Up-to-date knowledge of design patterns commonly used in e-commerce (REST, SOA, Microservices, Pub/Sub, etc...)

• Experience working in an Agile environment

• Good understanding of relational (MySQL, Postgresql) and NoSQL databases

SKILLS

• Ability to adapt quickly within the existing technical environment

• Highly analytical and detail oriented

• Ability to work in a fast paced technology-driven environment dealing with change and shifting requirements

• Self-motivated with the ability to consistently and efficiently meet deadlines

• Team player with solid interpersonal skills

WORLD CLASS TECHNOLOGY 

Technology is at the core of everything we do at SSENSE. Driven by an engineering mindset and a problem-solving attitude, we blend fashion with technology to deliver an unparalleled experience to our customers as we build seamless, custom solutions to deliver the SSENSE offering. 

WORLD CLASS TEAM
The SSENSE tech team is responsible for an international headless commerce platform. Working in an agile environment, our squads are made up of experienced innovators in Product Management, QA, Design, DevOps, Software Development, Machine Learning, Data Engineering, and Security. Headquartered in Montreal, our technology organization has been growing at a rate of 2X year-over-year and is doubling once again in 2021 as we expand across Canada, US, and Europe.  

WORLD CLASS PLATFORM 

The SSENSE platform runs on Amazon Web Services making use of serverless microservices across web, mobile and app. Our event-source architecture already achieves over 10,000 requests / second and growing at an unmatched pace, currently unseen across the industry.  Our data-driven culture of innovation empowers every product team across the tech organization to explore building, testing and learning with the latest in Machine Learning techniques. Our automated continuous improvement DevOps model (making use of both blue / green and canary deployments) results in an average of 50 production releases every day.  

Read more about us on our SSENSE Tech Blog.