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OCLC is seeking a Senior Test Engineer with strong automation skills to enhance their Quality Assurance team, ensuring high-quality software solutions. This role involves designing automated testing frameworks and collaborating globally to improve testing efficiency.

Responsibilities: Design and maintain automation frameworks, collaborate globally, coach team members, and manage test environments to ensure high-quality software delivery.

Skills: Strong automation development skills, knowledge of QA methodologies, experience with tools like Selenium and Cucumber, and proficiency in programming languages such as Java or Ruby.

Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in IT/Computer Science or equivalent experience, strong communication skills, and familiarity with Agile/Scrum processes.

Location: Corporate Office - Dublin, United States of America

Compensation: Not provided by employer. Typical compensation ranges for this position are between $90,000 - $130,000.

Together we make breakthroughs possible.

At OCLC, we build technology with a purpose: to connect libraries and make knowledge accessible worldwide, because we believe that what is known must be shared. Our teams work with complex global datasets, AI and machine learning, hybrid cloud solutions, and other technologies that connect people and organizations to the information they need. We value the power of unique perspectives and experiences to unlock innovation. At OCLC, your ideas matter, whether you have two years of experience or 20. You’ll learn, create, and problem-solve with technologists, product developers, librarians, researchers, marketing pros, and support teams around the world.

Why join OCLC?

OCLC is consistently recognized as a best place to work by several independent programs Werecognize and rewardpeople and resultswith a comprehensive Total Rewards package. This means competitive compensation that reflects your unique contributions—performance, experience, and skills—along with exceptional benefits, including best-in-class health coverage, retirement plans with generous company contributions, and a commitment to your overall well-being.

• We know the best ideas don’t always happen at a desk. Take a walking meeting around our 100-acre campus or enjoy lunch on the patio.We’re committed to your success—both personally and professionally. Hybrid work environment: For many roles, three days a week on-site, with occasional additional days based on business needs.
• Free use of our on-site fitness center, gym sports, group exercise classes, and game room
• Onsite catering and cafeteria subsidized by OCLC
• Health and wellness events
• Work environments with individual and team spaces and the latest technology tools
• Paid parental leave and adoption assistance
• Tuition reimbursement and Public Service Loan Forgiveness eligibility
• Company-subsidized pricing on local tickets and memberships

Join us in transforming how people everywhere access informationand be part of a mission-driven team that makes a global impact.

The Job Details are as follows:

OCLC has a dedicated team of Quality Assurance (QA) professionals who are obsessed with building quality products and services in the right way. The QA team works daily to understand our customer's needs, and then uses that understanding to ensure that all deliveries not only exceed our customers' expectations, but also meet our own high standards of software quality and exceptional user-experience.

At OCLC, QA is involved in the entire project process: monitoring and improving the process, making sure that any agreed-upon standards and procedures are followed, and ensuring that problems are found and dealt with. It’s all oriented to PREVENTION!

Senior Test Engineer with strong automation development skills to support our Quality Assurance team members who are passionate about providing high quality test coverage for our products.

As a Senior Test Engineer, you will you will serve an integral role in our QA team, working interactively with other test engineers to provide automated regression test frameworks and test coverage. You will recommend and implement improvements to help increase quality of testing and our software applications. You will design and support test automation frameworks used throughout the organization. Your skills will also be leveraged to coach, mentor, and collaborate with others. You will be responsible for designing, developing and evolving test automation frameworks, defining automation coding and source code management standards, developing tools and utilities for test automation, managing test infrastructure, and exploring innovations in test automation.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, optimize, and/or maintain automated testing frameworks. 
• Collaborate with team members located across the globe.
• Quickly learn new tools and technologies.
• Propose/implement improvements that result in increased efficiency and reduce risk.
• Manage changing priorities.
• Maintain and improve subject matter expertise including general software architecture knowledge.
• Provide support and backup for other QA team members.
• Effectively coach and mentor others. 
• Produce and maintain documentation.
• Develop, implement, and maintain test data and environments required for testing.
• Report and analyze test results. Troubleshoot failures.
• Perform tasks required for automated test implementation including review acceptance criteria, create test scenarios, implement data management strategy, and generate required reports.
• Help define coding standards and best practices for automation engineers.
• Explore and integrate tools that aid in the development and testing of our products. Where applicable, evaluate and implement new tools and processes.

Qualifications

Minimum Required

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science similar technical discipline or 5+ years equivalent work experience.
• Works well independently and collaboratively.
• Strong communication, public speaking, coaching, and mentoring skills.
• Willingness to learn a broad spectrum of OCLC products.
• Understanding of Agile/Scrum processes and experience participating in an Agile team.
• Experience with defect management.
• Experience with testing across varieties of devices and operating systems.
• Strong knowledge of QA methodologies and testing techniques, including functional, non-functional, system integration, install verification, and testing across many phases of a project.
• Proficient with Gherkin.
• Experience in building and maintaining test automation.
• Ability to develop tests to address the full stack automation (database, web services and UI)
• Independently automates testing using Ruby/Cucumber, Java, or other similar language.
• Solid understanding of computer programming, software development, and design.
• Minimum of 4 years demonstrated experience in one or more of the following testing toolsets/frameworks:
• Selenium Grid/WebDriver
• Cucumber/Gherkin
• jUnit, TestNG
• Maven/Gradle

Desired but not required

Working knowledge of library processes and products. Functional knowledge of OCLC’s products. Continued education in testing or QA certification. Membership in quality or IT organization. Demonstrated experience with Continuous Integration, including one or more of the following build/deploy/version control tools:

• Jenkins
• Git
• Maven

Minimum of 3 years of demonstrated experience in one or more of the following:

• Java
• IntelliJ
• JavaScript

Working Conditions: Normal office environment.

ADA/EAA: The above statements cover what are generally believed to be the principal and essential functions of this job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some people assigned to the job to perform a somewhat different combination of duties.