Software QA Automation Engineer Lead

Location: San Diego

Kyriba empowers financial leaders and their teams with award-winning solutions for cash and risk management, payments and supply chain finance. Kyriba delivers a highly secure, 100 percent SaaS enterprise platform, superior bank connectivity and a seamlessly integrated solution-set for tackling today’s most complex financial challenges. Thousands of companies, including many of the world’s largest organizations, rely on Kyriba to streamline key processes, protect against loss from fraud and cybercrime, and accelerate growth opportunities through improved decision support. Technology analyst-firm IDC recognized Kyriba as a global leader in its MarketScape for SaaS and cloud-enabled treasury and risk management applications for 2017-2018. Kyriba is headquartered in New York, with offices in San Diego, Paris, London, Tokyo, Dubai and other major locations. For more information, visit www.kyriba.com.

Kyriba is seeking a talented Senior Test Automation Engineer to join our team of more than 200 engineers working together to bring innovative solutions to Kyriba clients around the globe. We are a team of passionate people motivated by agility, innovation and continuous improvement.

You will be designing and writing code, scripts, and tools to automate testing of the software (API) as features are being developed in collaboration with developers, product owners, and other team members. You are a team player working actively within agile methodology, passionate and curious about the latest technologies. You identify weak spots and constantly design better and creative ways to break software and identify potential problems. You'll have a huge impact on the quality of Kyriba’s growing suite of products and services.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
•	Work with product design and customer-facing teams to gather and verify requirements for test scenarios that match customer use cases.
•	Own the architecture and implementation of automation test frameworks across our Connectivity Platform APIs.
•	Provide input during the architectural design process.
•	Be an active participant in iterating and improving engineering processes.
•	Work with customer-facing teams providing support to reproducing issues and gathering as much detail as possible to hand off to the appropriate engineering teams.
•	Ability to understand functional/technical specifications and analyze data and server logs.
•	Demonstrated proficiency in troubleshooting problems, determining root-cause, and providing reproduction.
•	Understanding of Unit, Functional, System, Performance, and Operational testing and the tools utilized.
•	Deal well with ambiguous/undefined problems; ability to think abstractly.
•	Experience acting in a scrum-master role for engineering teams.

Education and Experience:
•	Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or related field.
•	6 years’ experience Test Strategy & Design, Test Automation, and Test Execution Analysis.
•	2 years’ experience in test automation in a micro-services based environment.
•	3+ years’ of automated software testing experience including RESTful APIs and web applications.
•	3+ years’ experience with Java and Python programming languages.
•	Git based workflow with build tools for continuous integration systems such as Jenkins.
•	Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment.
•	Excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
•	Strong interpersonal and communications skills.

Kyriba Culture and Values:  At Kyriba, we value a strong work culture and sense of community and ownership among our global team. We live by our “iCare” value system to demonstrate our care and commitment to our clients and to each other. In hiring, we look for candidates that are a strong fit with our culture and values, as well as bring the talent and experience required by the position.

•	Innovation: We foster innovation and entrepreneurial thinking across our team by rewarding employees for their achievements and encouraging efficiency and continual process improvement.
•	Client Success: Our passion is to enable our clients’ success. We do this by understanding their needs, and developing and managing solutions that provide them the insight to effectively drive decision making within their organizations.
•	Accountability: We each take personal responsibility for our actions. We are committed to our own continuous improvement and we go the extra mile to meet our clients' needs.
•	Respect: We respect each other’s ideas, efforts and commitments, and embrace our diverse cultures and points of view. We achieve our goals through teamwork, responsiveness, open communication and a positive attitude.
•	Excellence: We strive for excellence in all that we do and bring the passion and commitment to deliver on our promises. We achieve excellence through leadership, teamwork, transparency and integrity, and we are committed to recognizing employee achievements.