Automation Engineer, Kobo
12 Month Contract
Digital bookseller
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Digital bookseller
501-1000 employees
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501-1000 employees
Company mission
To bring the power of reading to the world.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience as a QA automation engineer with a focus on web development
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript and experience with testing frameworks such as WebDriver.io, Selenium, Cypress
- Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle and agile methodologies
- Experience with Git
- Experienced and knowledgeable in CI/CD and different testing strategies and techniques (Unit, Integration, UI tests)
- Comfortable with and enthusiastic about learning new technologies
Desirable
- Performance testing
- Knowledge of API testing using tools like Postman
- Bash, Shell scripting
- Working with GitLab, GitHub, AzDo
What the job involves
- Rakuten Kobo is looking for an Automation Engineer to join our amazing Rendering team on a 12 month contract!
- You will be joining one of our development teams to deliver awesome new features for our many users to enjoy
- Our engineers are enthusiastic and operate across the development spectrum, from front-end to back-end to CI/CD and infrastructure
- We take full responsibility for our work, from requirements gathering and solutioning, to implementation and testing, to deploying and monitoring how our code behaves in front of real customers
- Kobo is looking for an Automation engineer who shares these passions and is proud of the work they do
- Reporting to the Manager, Technology Delivery, the Automation Engineer plays a vital role in all aspects of delivery from design, planning and implementation through to releasing and monitoring
- Develop and maintain automated test scripts for our web applications
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand product requirements and create comprehensive test plans
- Conduct automated testing to identify software defects, ensuring thorough test coverage
- Perform regression testing to validate software stability after changes or updates
- Collaborate with developers to troubleshoot and resolve issues, providing detailed bug reports
- Monitoring the health of the application after release
Our take
Long-form content is having a resurgence. That’s great news for the e-reader industry, of which Rakuten’s Kobo battles with Amazon’s Kindle for ownership.
The e-reader giant has changed tack in recent years to pursue growth via integrations and partnerships. A notable example is its native device integration with Pocket, a wishlist app loved by millions of readers.
The company is hoping that these partnerships and product improvements will allow it to finally break the US market where it most struggles for market share with Kindle.
Amazon has consistently shown its willingness to drop prices to protect its position in any market it plays in. That means that Kobo will have to demonstrate true product superiority to make a dent while protecting its margins.
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Company benefits
- 4-day summer holiday weekends
- Competitive health benefits
- Commuting allowance
- Salary, bonus & stock options
- Global projects & opportunities
- Dog-friendly
- Happy Hour
- Casual dress
- Maternity/parental leave top-up
- Free eReader
- Fitness allowance & gym discount
- Recognition programs
- Buddy program
- Training & development opportunities
- Healthy snacks
- Open concept
- Kobo Café
- Sports teams
Company values
- Build trust & teamwork
- Share knowledge
- Demonstrate transparency
- Favour work/life balance
- Celebrate our achievements
- Show compassion
Company HQ
Liberty Village, Toronto, ON
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Leadership
Michael Tamblyn
(CEO)Part of the founding team of Kobo, Michael previously held the role of Chief Content Officer. Michael has also been the founding CEO of the supply chain agency, BookNet Canada and co-founded Canada’s first online bookstore, Bookshelf.ca, purchased by Indigo Books & Music in 1998.
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