Test Automation Engineer (m/w/d)

For our client, a leading telecommunications provider in Austria, Qualysoft is seeking an experienced Test Automation Engineer to design, build and maintain automated tests for business-critical web applications, with a strong focus on Selenium.

Location

Vienna

Start

ASAP

Duration

12 months

Capacity

100%

Working model

Hybrid, 1-2 days per month on site in Vienna

Project language

English

Your Responsibilities

• As a key contributor to an international squad, you will safeguard product quality through test automation and help the team release reliably under ambitious timelines.
• Design, implement and maintain automated UI and end-to-end tests with Selenium WebDriver
• Build and extend a robust, maintainable test automation framework (e.g. Page Object Model, BDD)
• Automate regression, smoke and acceptance tests and integrate them into the CI/CD pipeline

Create and execute API tests alongside UI tests

• Derive test cases from requirements and user stories and take part in refinement, planning and review
• Analyze test results, document defects and work with developers to resolve them
• Manage test data and test environments and keep test reports and quality metrics transparent
• Collaborate with the local team (German) and the central team (English)
• Proactively identify gaps in test coverage and risks, and communicate status and findings clearly to stakeholders at all levels

Your Profile

Several years of hands-on experience in test automation in a technical environment

Strong practical experience with Selenium WebDriver

• Solid programming skills in at least one language, ideally Java (alternatively Python)
• Experience with test frameworks such as TestNG or JUnit

Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines

Good knowledge of test design and methods (functional, regression, cross-browser testing)

Experience working in agile environments

Structured, detail-oriented and proactive working style; able to stay calm under pressure

Excellent communication skills

Fluent English

Core Technologies

Selenium WebDriver, Selenium Grid

Java (alternatively Python), TestNG / JUnit, Maven / Gradle

Cucumber / BDD (Gherkin)

REST API testing (e.g. Postman, REST Assured)

CI/CD: Jenkins, GitLab CI or Azure DevOps

Git

Docker

Jira with a test management tool (e.g. Xray, TestRail)

Test reporting (e.g. Allure, ExtentReports)

Nice to Have

Background in the telecommunications industry or e-commerce

Experience with Playwright or Cypress

Mobile test automation (Appium) and cross-browser cloud tools (e.g. BrowserStack)

Performance testing (e.g. JMeter)

SQL knowledge for test data and validation

ISTQB certification

Experience in SAFe environments