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About PDI

For nearly 40 years, PDI has helped convenience retailers and petroleum wholesalers adapt to changes in the industry by leveraging the latest technologies. Simplifying the complexity in your world is our main focus. That's why we're delivering an integrated portfolio of global, cloud-based solutions and services to meet our customers needs today and well into the future. From the back office to fuel logistics, and the latest wave of consumer demands and digital commerce, PDI solutions and services are designed to give you a competitive edge. Our deep domain knowledge is backed by our industry-specific software offerings and a people-first approach. Serving the entire supply chain means that we’ve had to solve a wide range of industry challenges and deliver measurable value. To address the increasingly dynamic convenience retail and petroleum wholesale industry, PDI leads the way with converged digital, cloud-optimized, secure, and scalable solutions including ERP, Loyalty, Fuel Pricing, Point-of-Sale and Logistics to create a broader industry ecosystem. The result is unparalleled insights, simplified operations, and higher profitability for your employees and business. We’re dedicated to helping our more than 1,500 customers in over 50 countries, providing solutions and services to over 200,000 sites. 

Job Summary

Do you love building software that thrills your customers? Do you obsess over the quality of your software? Do you insist on the highest standards for the software your team develops?  Are you an advocate of measurable quality?  Can you dive deep and still maintain the big picture of your solution’s components and the customer experience? Well if this is you, then come join an energetic team of engineers building future of PDI software solutions.  

As a Test Automation Engineer (a.k.a. Software Engineer In Test) you will be part of an Agile team and involved in all aspects of our projects’ lifecycle from inception through release working closely with the team’s product owner, architects and engineers. Your mandate on the team will be to: (a) maximize the quality, measurability and supportability of the production features being developed, (b) maximize the testability of the software by finding and closing gaps in test coverage (c)  minimize the team’s overall internal defect escapes by shifting the balance of how we manage quality from end-of-cycle defect detection & containment (bug-finding & fix cycles) to up-front defect prevention (automation backed coverage of all our application features).  

You will not be writing production code.  You will however be writing a lot of code in the form of tools, emulators, mocks, fakes, stubs, unit, component and integration tests. You will also be working closely with the Engineering DevOps teams helping enhance our integration with our continuous integration (CI) systems, our virtual labs and helping build out fully automated reporting of all the various project quality metrics with a vision of achieving “push-button” reporting of a project’s software quality and trending (code coverage, static analysis, test surface coverage).   

Responsibilities

• Setting up test environments as required including client and web applications, services and databases. 

• Preparing Automation Test Plans for Service Level Tests, Integration Tests and UI tests as needed 

• Review product owner acceptance criteria and look for Non Functional Requirement gaps to fill 

• Mentor and support other engineering teams on how to write good unit tests, component, integration and E2E tests using best practices and standard frameworks 

• Question & challenge manual QA by other teams and guide them to eliminate it replacing manual with automation 

• Support automating traceability of Stories, Acceptance Criteria and Test cases through the integration of CI and BDD frameworks and tools 

• Be part of an Agile team, participate in all Agile ceremonies & activities and be accountable for the sprint deliverable 

• Participate in Release/Iteration planning, smoke, feature and regression test planning 

• Design & build automation smoke, feature & regression tests 

• Review code with your peers for testability, supportability and look for full unit test coverage 

• Write feature use cases in BDD to drive the creation of automated and/or manual test cases 

• Build mocks, emulators, fakes, stubs and test case libraries driving towards 100% acceptance test coverage of stories 

  Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• 8 - 9 years of experience in software development and software automation 

• Proficient in SQL based RDBMS, DML & DDL (e.g.MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, MariaDB...) 

• Proficient in two or more of:  Test NG, .NET WebAPI, Selenium/Appium, Coded UI, MS Automation UI 

• Experience integrating testing results with CI tools: BitBucket, Jenkins, SonarQube, etc. 

• Experience with network management, windows application, services, web application and database setup 

• Experience with BDD, gherkin language (SpecFlow, Cucumber, JBehave) 

• Experience with multi-tenant architecture, infrastructure security & routing 

• Experience writing functional and performance tests for Web APIs and Web Applications 

• Experience with NoSQL databases (e.g., Redis, Cassandra, MongoDB, ...) is a plus 

• Experience with Windows and Linux OS, network management, services, web application and database setup 

• Experience testing systems in consideration of NFRs: performance, responsiveness, concurrency, availability, supportability 

• Comfortable working in Windows and Linux OS and networking including network configuration, scripting, permissions mgmt, using bash, PowerShell 

• Highly motivated self-starter with a desire to help others and take action 

• Requires strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts into non-technical terms.

• Ability to independently work as a contributing member in a high-paced and focused team 

• Ability to multi-task and prioritize tasks with competing deadlines 

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with the ability to work under pressure 

• Ability to socialize ideas and influence decisions without direct authority 

• Collaborative in nature with a strong desire to dig in and learn independently and as well as through asking questions 

• Considers ‘best-practice’ standards, as well as departmental policies and procedures 

• Experience with one or more mainstream programming languages: Java, Node.JS/JavaScript, Python 

• Experience writing functional E2E automation tests 

• Strong proficiency in using Jira as a test management tool 

• Extensive knowledge of Postman for API testing and validation 

• Aware of CI, CD & DevOps tools & scripting (i.e. Jenkins, Bash, PowerShell) 

• Strong computer science fundamentals: OOP, design patters, data structures & algorithms 

• Preferred: Mobile App testing, Gen AI tools, Fuel Retail, Wholesale or Logistics domain experience.

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