SAP Senior Automation Engineer

You will be part of a team, that consists of experienced and highly skilled quality engineers, who are responsible for assuring and engineering the quality of our SLE product family.

Their duties are:

• Developing and enhancing the automation tools for various SUSE Linux Enterprise products, that also run in the public cloud, with openQA as our main automation and CI tool.
• Coordinating test planning and execution in a truly global distributed project team.
• Designing, developing and maintaining automation test cases for SUSE Linux Enterprise products within the SAP context.

Your responsibilities:

• Implementation of automation tools and test requirements from product owners, business and development teams.
• Running and maintaining automation environment (openQA) onsite at SAP and at SUSE.
• Working closely with development and product management at SUSE and at SAP to define suitable test approaches to SUSE Linux Enterprise.
• Carry out the integration of SAP test environments into SUSE's CI/CD environment.
• Assist in proof of concepts and pilots.
• Promote and advocate test automation throughout the quality engineering department.

Required skills and experience:

• Thorough understanding of software quality assurance and techniques, software development life cycle, test automation frameworks and various test methodologies.
• Strong understanding of SAP environment and applications.
• Experience with test automation tools such as Jenkins, Robot framework and openQA.
• Senior knowledge in Perl or Python.
• Excellent Linux knowledge in general; experience of the SUSE Linux Enterprise family and/or openSUSE is a benefit.
• Experience as system integrator or administrator.
• Excellent written, verbal communication and interpersonal skills, with experience of working in a virtual and distributed environment.
• Willingness to travel.