Quality Assurance Engineer

Location Overview
Working with inspiring and experienced colleagues, you'll find that the atmosphere in our city-centre office in Kraków is informal and engaging. With drive and ingenuity, our teams deliver vital services to PepsiCo employees around the world. With an active, get-things-done culture, this is a place where your dynamism and agility will make a difference.

The next great shift in consumer behavior driven by technological disruption is underway, and it's happening in the food & beverage industry.  
  
As other sectors have shifted to eCommerce-first business models in recent years, food & beverage has continued to rely predominantly on traditional brick & mortar models, but this is changing rapidly. New technologies are transforming every aspect of reaching consumers, from the rise of digital marketing and online grocery platforms to the creation of supply chain tools that enable speedy at-home delivery.
  
To deepen our efforts to seize this opportunity and lead the food & beverage industry into its remarkable next chapter, PepsiCo – a global company with powerhouse brands including Frito-Lay, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, and Quaker– is expanding its Global dCommerce Team. We're looking for the greatest minds in data & analytics, software development, machine learning optimization, and next-generation supply chain. Given PepsiCo's incredible reach – our foods and beverages are enjoyed more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories, and our value chain involves diverse partners ranging from farmers and food scientists to retailers and logistics specialists – the challenges we're addressing are complex and the solutions will be deeply impactful.  
  
Although PepsiCo is a large multinational, the PepsiCo Global dCommerce Team prides itself on having the entrepreneurial, action-oriented culture of an exciting startup business. Our group includes startup founders, Silicon Valley veterans, food & beverage experts, and seasoned executives from digital transformation leaders such as Amazon and Walmart. Our goal is to build the technological products and capabilities that will reinvent our industry and make us the #1 food & beverage business in eCommerce for decades to come  
  
Over the past year we have built a very talented team of engineers and developed a scalable applications using Elixir, React JS, LiveView, and Kubernetes. We use such technologies as Postgres, Oban, Factory, Minizinc, Snowflake, etc in our development. Basic monitoring / alerts are in place. We are looking for a seasoned, experienced technologist in QA automation space to help us develop automated tests to ensure high quality of our products.  

This role offers many exciting challenges and opportunities:

• Be part of QA team that conducts manual and automated tests to release features on a regular basis
• Conduct manual tests to gain domain knowledge and identify candidates for automation tests in collaboration with the product & engineering teams
• Work on developing end-to-end QA automated scripts
• This role will work primarily in JavaScript / Typescript and Cypress
• This role requires exceptional programming skills, ability to collaborate cross-functionally with business stakeholders, product managers, engineering leads, designers, and other test engineers.

We are looking for experienced Software QA engineers with a passion for technology, researching new solutions and ways of working, who enjoy mentoring other engineers and sharing insights with their peers.

Your day to day with us:

• Work together with engineering and product teams to understand business requirements and prioritization of various features
• Conduct manual testing of web applications and of backend service layers and identify automation candidates
• Build and manage QA automation scripts, and continuously augment QA framework as features are added
• Monitor and support daily/weekly/on-commit automation test runs, review reports, address failures and update test scripts
• Participate in team meetings for planning and scheduling, obtaining technical information, reviewing testing workflow, and reporting test updates
• Identify weekly automation objectives and update progress at the end of the week
• Meticulously document QA related processes, updates, and reports
• Collaborate with and guide QA automation engineers
• Research, present and champion tools, ceremonies and practices that strengthen the QA org and PepsiCo eCommerce
• Work constructively with KBS, and geographically diverse engineering teams to promptly support development and QA.
• Drive innovation and support dissemination of good QA practices/methodologies across teams

What you will need to succeed:

• 3+ years' experience testing software web applications and developing automated QA tests
• Experience testing web services (GraphQL and REST)
• Experience with QA automation frameworks such as Playwright or Selenium
• Working experience with postgreSQL (writing database queries, SQL joins, ad-hoc SQL statements)
• Experience working in an Agile/lean, continuous-deployment environment
• Familiar with Agile development processes and tools such as Jira, Confluence, XRAY, Gherkin language, mochawesome report generation, GitHub
• Self starter; act as owner; juggle priorities; multi-task effectively
• Fast learner and ability to quickly take ownership of tasks and spearhead automation projects
• Team player; excellent listening skills; develop rapport with product owners and developers

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