2 Openings- Mexico City**Role description**:
**Senior QA Automation Engineer**
**Lead I - Software Testing**
**Who We Are**:
Born digital, UST transforms lives through the power of technology.
We walk alongside our clients and partners, embedding innovation and agility into everything they do.
We help them create transformative experiences and human-centered solutions for a better world.
UST is a mission-driven group of 29,000+ practical problem solvers and creative thinkers in more than 30 countries.
Our entrepreneurial teams are empowered to innovate, act nimbly, and create a lasting and sustainable impact for our clients, their customers, and the communities in which we live.
With us, you'll create a boundless impact that transforms your career—and the lives of people across the world.
**You Are**:
UST is searching for a Senior QA Automation Engineer who will work with various teams to create, enhance and maintain the Automation Frameworks across the products.
**The opportunity**:
- Participates in the creation of and/or review requirements and detail design documentation in any form to understand system features and begin necessary test scripting and automation.
- Interacts with Business Analysts; Users, designers, and developers to further understand the system and/or resolve systems defects.
- Develops test plans, test cases and test scripts utilizing appropriate toolset to cover system functionality as completely as possible.
- Ensures personal and QA Engineers' test scripts adhere to approved scripting standards and guidelines.
- Performs automated and manual testing efforts for our products.
- Develops various reports to support testing and QA processes.
- Analyzes and reports on defects utilizing appropriate defect tracking software.
- Manages test data by setup and maintaining data driven tests.
- Helps define, improve and implement QA best practices.
- Assists the Executive Director in researching and recommending appropriate testing tools for use with the BA, QA team and developers.
- Mentors and teaches as appropriate, other BA and QA Analysts in the use of approved tools and procedures.
This position description identifies the responsibilities and tasks typically associated with the performance of the position.
Other relevant essential functions may be required.
**What you need**:
- Bachelor's degree in information technology, Computer Science, or a related degree, or equivalent experience
- Experience working with Gradle, Postman, IntelliJ Idea, Spock Framework, Git, and MongoDB Compass
- Good grasp of Groovy, jQuery, GEB testing, and JMeter
- Familiarity with XML and JSON formats
- 4+ years of quality assurance and testing of medium (6-8 months) to large (12+ months) size IT web-based software projects.
- 3+ years of automation testing tools experience
- 1 year knowledge and understanding of Total Quality Management, Software Quality Analyst or Test Engineer best-practices, or working towards certification in these areas.
- Complex analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work independently and coordinate activities within a team.
- Demonstrated ability to quickly learn new technologies.
- Advanced ability to solve complex problems, drawing upon creativity, experience, and multiple sources of information.
- Advanced communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex information in straightforward manner.
**Benefits**
Employees receive mandatory and non-mandatory benefits such as fourteen (14) days of vacation beginning on the date of hire, vacation premium, ten (10) paid holidays, a Christmas Bonus of thirty (30) days' pay, Monthly Food Vouchers, Saving Fund, and health insurance.
Certain employees may be eligible for additional Company benefits beginning on the date of hire, including dental, disability and life insurance plans; four (4) days of personal time off per year, up to three (3) days of paid medical leave per year, and up to three (3) days of paid bereavement leave per year.
**What we believe**:
We proudly embrace the values that have shaped UST since day one.
We build our culture of Humility, Humanity, and Integrity.
These values inspire us to nurture a people-first, human centric culture that fosters diversity, prioritizes sustainable solutions, and keeps our people and clients at the forefront of all decisions.
**Humility**:
We will listen, learn, be empathetic and help selflessly in our interactions with everyone.
**Humanity**:
Through business, we will better the lives of those less fortunate than ourselves.
**Integrity**:
We honor our commitments and act with responsibility in all our relationships.
**An Equal Opportunity Workplace, Free of Discrimination and Harassment**
At UST, we strive to provide a work environment free of discrimination and harassment.
We are an equal opportunity employer and employment decisions are based on merit and business needs.
Our Human Rights Policy further illustrates our stand on this.
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