About this role
Job Description: Responsibilities:
• Code and Review: Continuously code, read, analyze, design, and optimize front-end, back-end, and integration code across Merkle's proprietary products and solutions throughout the development lifecycle: assessing technical design, implementation quality, identifying technical risk areas, and pinpointing the right scope for testing. • Product Ownership: Act as Product Owner for Merkle's proprietary innovation products: defining and prioritizing the product backlog, aligning roadmap decisions with business stakeholders, and ensuring features are delivered in line with business goals and user needs. • Test Strategy, Automation & CI/CD: Partner with business stakeholders to translate requirements into test plans, cases, and automation frameworks for web apps and APIs covering functional, non-functional test scenarios, integrating them into CI/CD pipelines for early defect detection. Perform manual or exploratory testing for complex workflows and new features as needed. • Agile Collaboration: Participate actively in Sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives, advocating for software quality best practices from the early design stages (Shift-Left approach).
Qualifications:
• 4+ years of professional experience in software engineering / test automation, with strong working knowledge of full-stack application development (front-end and back-end) sufficient to analysing code and assess technical risk. • Strong proficiency with modern automation frameworks and tools such as Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Robot Framework, or Appium. • Solid foundational knowledge in programming/scripting languages used for testing, preferably JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, or Go. • Extensive experience with backend API testing utilizing tools like Postman, SoapUI, or RestAssured. • Competency in writing SQL queries to manipulate and verify backend data structures. • Experienced with core development tools and project management platforms, such as Git, Jira, YouTrack, and Asana. • Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills. • Experience executing performance, load, or stress testing using tools like JMeter or k6 is a plus. • Familiarity with containerized execution environments (e.g., Docker) and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) is a plus. • Prior experience as a QE working closely alongside full-stack development teams, ideally within MarTech, AdTech, or data-driven product environments is preferred. • Professional QA/QE certifications, such as ISTQB (Certified Tester Foundation or Advanced Level) is a plus.
Location: Bangkok Brand:
Time Type: Full time Contract Type: Freelancer