What is your job all about - TAE
Last modified on Fri 22 Jul 2022

Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with the software.

Test automation?

Test automation, in a nutshell, is the practice of implementing solutions that make verifying certain requirements faster and more reliable. It is often combined with CI/CD services to make the whole code-test-deploy process more streamlined.

At this point, test automation techniques cannot replace all facets of software testing, but they are certainly useful for regression testing of any sort.

Test Automation Engineer?

Since creating automated tests requires certain technical skills that are not prerequisites for most aspects of testing, we decided to create a separate role that would focus on automation itself.

This does not mean that all automated tests need to be implemented by Test Automation Engineers (TAE), but we find it beneficial that there is a group of people exclusively working on developing our automation skillset, toolset, and processes.

Test Automation Engineers are a part of the QA team.

Responsibilities

The main responsibilities of the TAE role are: