The Points Guy, a division of Red Ventures, is looking for an Automation QA Engineer.  Candidates must have excellent communication and collaboration skills and be able to work with peers in other organizations as well as software developers, release leads and other testers.

What You’ll Do:

• Design, write, execute and maintain automated tests for APIs, platform and UI software.
• Assess the current set of automation tools and framework and then make recommendations on our automation strategy.
• Execute all components of product testing such as functional, regression and end-to-end testing.
• Make recommendations to improve product reliability, performance, and quality 
• Investigate and evaluate new testing technologies and products.
• Integrate and maintain automated tests as part of a CI pipeline (CircleCi).
• Work collaboratively with customer support and Engineering to identify bugs, process improvements and facilitate requirement gathering. 
• Work with data Engineering to identify customer patterns, isolate bugs and translate that information into actionable engineering work. 

What We’re Looking For:

• Experience in software development, debugging and testing production code. 
• Strong SQL skills and ability to effectively build queries for data analysis.
• Experience with monitoring, alerting and observability tools such as New Relic. 
• Strong understanding of Continuous Integration and ability to identify areas of improvements.
• Strong understanding of QA concepts and proven abilities in the following disciplines: software testing, test case writing, and automated script development
• Strong understanding of software design patterns, object oriented programming, functional programming concepts, and software architecture.
• Proficiency in one programming language such as JS, Java, Python, or Groovy.
• Experience with API testing tools (ie. Postman / SoapUI)
• Strong communication and documentation skills
• Strong aptitude (and appetite!) for learning new technologies

Even Better:

• Experience with continuous integration tools
• Ability to analyze code from other team members
• AWS Solutions Architect Certification
• Experience and exposure to DevOps cultures and practices
• Experience with Terraform

Who We Are: 

Founded in 2000, Red Ventures is a portfolio of growing digital businesses that bring consumers and brands together through integrated e-commerce, strategic partnerships and many proprietary brands including Bankrate, AllConnect.com and Reviews.com. Headquartered south of Charlotte, NC, Red Ventures has over 3000 employees in offices across the US, as well as London and Sao Paulo.  For more information, visit www.redventures.com.

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At Red Ventures we believe that diversity makes us stronger -  at work and in the world.  Red Ventures is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or any other basis protected by law. Employment at Red Ventures is based solely on a person's merit and qualifications.