Senior Software Engineer, Test Automation

About Grab and Our Workplace

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, we've got your back with everything. In Grab, purpose gives us joy and habits build excellence, while harnessing the power of Technology and AI to deliver the mission of driving Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone, with heart, hunger, honour, and humility.

Get to Know the Team

The Fulfillment tech family is one of the pillars enabling Grab to out-serve our customers and partners in different businesses and marketplaces across Southeast Asia. We are working on high throughput, real-time distributed systems that use advanced software engineering techniques to solve hundreds of millions of requests per day. We are a distributed team in 4 different locations: Singapore, Beijing, Indonesia, and Malaysia. Our communication is in English, both in spoken and written form.

Get to Know the Role

We are looking for an Automation Engineer for test automation. We believe a successful candidate has 2+ years’ experience as a Quality Engineer / Automation Engineer or Software Development Engineer and is familiar with one of the test scripts Python/Golang/Java experiment for product automation. As an Automation Engineer, you will be responsible for developing and enhancing automation tests for both backend services and mobile applications. This role is required because we are supporting the critical path and continually growing business. In return, you will get an opportunity to work with a creative team and help Southeast Asia people have a better life.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Design, develop, and execute automated test scripts using industry-standard test automation frameworks and tools for both backend services and mobile applications.
• Lead team to define test plans, test specifications, test suites, test cases as well as proposed tools for functional, security, and performance testing in a programmatic manner.
• Enable the team to create and maintain test cases, test scenarios, and test data to ensure maximum test coverage and effectiveness.
• Enable the team to perform functional, regression, and performance testing of backend services and mobile applications to identify defects and ensure product quality.
• Understand the product/business/feature in-depth from the end-user's point of view and the underlying implementation. Collaborate with developers to analyze and troubleshoot issues, and provide detailed bug reports with clear steps to reproduce.
• Work closely with the Product Manager, Frontend, and Backend developers to understand the context and the implementation to develop new automated tests and tools.

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• A degree in computer science, software engineering, information technology or related fields.
• 2+ years of experience as QA Engineer/Automation Engineer or Software Development Engineer.
• Solid understanding of test methodologies, test planning, and test case design.
• Hands-on coding experience with test automation (Mobile app and API automation), including script languages (Python) or other languages (Javascript, Go etc.).
• Proficiency in basic Linux commands and shell scripting.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience using build and release pipeline tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD or equivalent.

Life at Grab

We care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer:

• We have your back with Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
• With GrabFlex, create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.
• Celebrate moments that matter in life with loved ones through Parental and Birthday leave, and give back to your communities through Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave.
• We have a confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges.
• Balancing personal commitments and life's demands are made easier with our FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours.

What We Stand For At Grab

We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that provides equal opportunity for Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. We consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, age, gender, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.

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