Test Automation Engineer

Skatteverket · plný úvazek

Norra Källgatan 16-18, Västerås, Švédsko

Would you like to work with cutting-edge technology while contributing to safeguarding Swedish democracy? With us, you'll find interesting work assignments in the heart of society, combined with development opportunities and a good balance between work and leisure. You'll contribute to developing a robust election system that ensures free and transparent elections. Discover a diverse assignment! About the Role As a Test Automation Engineer, you'll be part of an agile development team where you collectively take responsibility for developing and maintaining new and existing software services, ultimately contributing to a well-functioning society. We work according to the SAFe framework, and the team is part of a program developing the Swedish election system that the Swedish Tax Agency delivers to the Swedish Election Authority. The program currently consists of approximately 85 people distributed across eight teams and program leadership. You'll work cross-functionally and help each other across areas of expertise to ensure deliverables. You'll work with varied tasks with a focus on testing in modern development environments, platforms, and tools. The technical environment includes microservices, Red Hat OpenShift, Oracle Db, Springboot, Java, JUnit, and Rest Assured. You're responsible for your team's testing activities by planning, designing, and conducting various types of tests. This ensures that the systems and services we develop and maintain function properly. You thrive in a central role where you can see both the big picture and the details, you ensure a high degree of test automation, and you strive toward shift-left principles. With us, you'll have the opportunity for continuous development and learning in your work. We actively work with skills and technology development through, for example, innovation sprints. You have knowledgeable colleagues with whom you exchange experiences, and you can develop both breadth and depth with us. Because we're a large IT organization, we can offer good opportunities for internal mobility. It's important to us that you have balance between work and leisure, and we offer flexible working hours and the opportunity to work partially from home. You receive one wellness hour per week and a wellness allowance. The Swedish Tax Agency's IT department actively works to promote an inclusive workplace characterized by equality and diversity where all employees have equal opportunities to contribute and develop. Read more at Jobba med it hos oss. You'll be part of the IT department with placement in Västerås. About You To do a good job and thrive with us at the Swedish Tax Agency, you need to be attentive, think innovatively, and take responsibility. In this work, good judgment and understanding of legal security and safety are important. You should also live up to our employee policy. In this role, you should: have good collaboration skills, be helpful, and have good interpersonal skills have the ability and willingness to learn new things, be flexible and open to change have good problem-solving skills, see patterns, and be able to make scope decisions be goal-focused and contribute to achieving the organization's purpose act consciously and professionally based on good self-awareness be able to express yourself well in speech and writing in Swedish You should also have: relevant post-secondary education in IT, or alternatively several years of current and relevant work experience in the IT field several years of current and relevant work experience planning, designing, performing, and analyzing automated tests several years of current and relevant work experience configuring test environments and managing test data current and relevant experience working with development in an object-oriented language It's desirable that you have current and relevant work experience with databases and agile testing methodology. It's also desirable that you have current and relevant experience working in a larger organization. Good to Know The employment is permanent and can begin with a six-month probationary period. Employment with us can involve placement in a security classification. A security investigation with a records check according to the Security Protection Act (2018:585) may therefore be conducted before an employment decision is made. For some of our tasks in security classification, Swedish citizenship is required. On skatteverket.se/jobb, you can read, for example, about our role supporting society, the benefits of working with us, and how it works when you apply for our jobs. When you apply, please attach your CV. We do not use cover letters in our recruitment, so you should not attach one to your application. Welcome with your application! The Swedish Tax Agency has a role supporting society. Our work affects all private individuals and businesses, and through our mission we contribute to a well-functioning society. Our development is customer-driven, and we collaborate with others to create efficient solutions. Together, we make society possible.