QA Automation Engineer
Chubb · Mexico ·
- Category
- QA
- Experience
- 5+ years
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Build and maintain automated test suites and performance benchmarks for Chubb’s digital platforms, integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines and mentoring teams on quality practices.
The Testing Automation Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining automated and performance testing suits that ensure software quality across Chubb's Digital Enterprise platforms. This role drives testing excellence by developing robust, reusable automation frameworks, embedding quality practices into Agile delivery teams, and translating complex technical findings into clear risk signals for stakeholders.
The Testing Automation Engineer operates as a senior practitioner and technical mentor, raising the quality bar across multiple project teams while owning end-to-end test strategy for automation and performance in complex digital products.
This position is accountable for delivering and sustaining automated quality practices across Digital Enterprise project teams.
The person in this role will be accountable for:
Identifying and resolving quality and automation blockers to maintain project velocity and proactively suggesting solutions and mitigation techniques to prevent delays to delivery.
Gaining and maintaining expertise in Chubb standard automation frameworks, contributing to framework selection decisions and ensuring the team's tooling stays current and effective.
Independently creating and managing test and automation scripts across projects, with a strong emphasis on reusability, maintainability, and coverage completeness.
Developing robust and reusable automation libraries and script architectures that can be adopted across multiple project teams and delivery squads.
Designing comprehensive quality strategies for complex products within projects, covering functional, integration, performance, and regression testing dimensions.
Presenting quality strategies, test results, and risk assessments in project reviews and sprint demonstrations, communicating clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Integrating automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous quality feedback throughout the development lifecycle, reducing the cost of defect discovery.
Defining and enforcing automation standards, coding patterns, and best practices across engineering teams to ensure consistency and long-term maintainability of the test estate.
Establishing performance baselines, thresholds, and SLA targets in collaboration with architects and platform owners and tracking degradation trends across releases.
Mentoring Quality Engineers to foster hands-on growth through code reviews, knowledge sharing, and direct guidance, actively contributing to increasing the automation and performance practices
Designing test suits and strategies focused on performance optimization, and extending this practice across the Digital Transformation model
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience; IT professional with 5+ years of hands-on experience in testing automation and performance testing.
Strong knowledge of the Software Testing Lifecycle (STLC) and proven experience defining Test Strategy and Test Plans to automate testing across functional and non-functional dimensions.
Proficiency in two or more programming languages commonly used in test automation (e.g., JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Java).
Testing automation expertise in tools and frameworks such as Playwright, Newman, and Selenium.
Hands-on experience with performance testing using tools such as k6, LoadRunner, or equivalent, including scenario design, execution, and results analysis.
Demonstrated experience integrating test frameworks into CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps.
Experience using source code management tools, in particular Git and GitHub, including branching strategies and pull request workflows for test code.
Expertise across API testing, integration testing, UI testing, and performance testing disciplines.
Working knowledge of microservices and API-first architectures, with the ability to design integration test strategies that reflect real production topology.
Familiarity with Agile methodologies and DevOps practices applicable to testing automation, including shift-left quality principles.
Experience with test reporting and observability platforms (e.g., Allure, or Grafana) to surface quality signals at team and leadership level.
Strong strategic thinking skills; able to design and articulate comprehensive quality strategies for complex, multi-component digital products.
Strong problem-solving skills applied to complex, ambiguous quality challenges in fast-paced delivery environments.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills; able to convey complex quality risks and technical findings clearly to both engineering and business stakeholders.
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