Junior Test Automation Engineer

Job Description

The Test Automation Engineer ensures quality and reliability for ComLIMS-Quotation, the Eurofins Information Systems (EurIS) regional web-based Customer Commercial Agreement Management application used across Eurofins laboratories worldwide. This role is embedded in the ComLIMS-Quotation Development Team based in Ho Chi Minh City, comprising five local members alongside offshore team members, and is accountable for building and maintaining automated test suites covering functional and non-functional requirements across acceptance and deployment stages. The team delivers software using Agile/DevOps practices and robust modelling techniques such as Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and Unified Modelling Language (UML), on a stack including C#, .NET, MSSQL Server, Angular, and DevOps tooling such as Docker, Kubernetes, Azure DevOps, and Octopus.

Key Responsibilities

• You serve as the dedicated Test Automation Engineer within a Scrum team of six collocated Software Engineers and Quality Assurance (QA), ensuring test automation is integrated at every stage of feature development.
• You contribute to test execution (acceptance, deployment, and more), build automation, and troubleshooting of selected functional and non-functional requirements for target software applications and services, maintaining an automation ratio of80%.
• You perform exploratory testing in addition to automated UI tests to uncover usability issues, visual glitches, hidden defects and functionality gaps.
• You adhere to Agile values and practices (Scrum and Kanban), participating in team meetings (stand-ups, backlog refinement acceptance criteria refinement) and performing incremental testing of the application.
• You follow continuous delivery practices by ensuring ComLIMS-Quotation test suites are automated and system atically executed as part of the Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline at acceptance and deployment stages.
• You apply test strategies and test plans to ensure high-quality product delivery, refining them when necessary.
• You collaborate with Software Engineers, architects, development managers, and business analysts to achieve comprehensive test coverage and quality.
• You communicate proactively with product owners, business analysts, development, and testing teams to resolve ambiguity and maintain alignment on test coverage and quality.

Other Assignments

• You ensure regular follow-up with the Team Manager, providing updates as needed or upon request.
• You quickly acquire working knowledge of Eurofins EurIS systems, starting with ComLIMS-Quotation, its underlying concepts, models, and the processes and practices of the team.
• You continuously deepen knowledge of ComLIMS-Quotation concepts, models, and team practices, guided by the priorities of assigned functions.
• You build effective working relationships with IT and non-IT stakeholders across Eurofins.

Qualifications

Required Skills and Qualifications

• You hold a bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or have equivalent practical experience.
• You have at least 1+ year of experience in software testing, with a strong focus on automation and proven manual testing skills.
• You have a thorough understanding of various types of testing and their purposes, including acceptance, regression, sanity and exploratory testing.
• You have a thorough understanding of software applications at both functional and technical levels, with the ability to extend and refine acceptance criteria, including consideration of corner, edge, and boundary cases.
• You have working knowledge of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and DevOps practices for effective integration of testing into the development process.
• You are proficient in test automation using object-oriented languages (such as Java or C#).
• You understand web service patterns using Representational State Transfer (REST) and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) queuing patterns, and can test them with automation.
• You have experience with UI automation testing using tools like Selenium or JavaScript frameworks such as WebdriverIO.
• You are proficient in debugging code and troubleshooting issues across various layers of the application stack.
• You perform root cause analysis on defects and performance issues.
• You collaborate effectively with distributed teams across multiple countries.
• You have hands-on experience with exploratory testing techniques to complement automated test coverage.
• You are fluent in English (written and spoken).
• You have conversational proficiency in Vietnamese to facilitate local communication.
   

Preferred Skills and Experience

• You have initial experience with Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) tools such as SpecFlow/Reqnroll, JBehave, orCucumber.js for writing test cases in a given/when/then format.
• You have working knowledge of scripting languages like PowerShell, Shell, or Bash for automating tasks and writing test scripts.
• You have experience testing backend services developed with a DDD approach.
• You are familiar with version control systems (Git) and CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps Pipelines and Jenkins.
• You have experience in test automation with web frontend languages (JavaScript or TypeScript).
• You have experience with tools like JMeter, LoadRunner, or Gatling for performance, load, and stress testing.
• You can review and interpret performance test results and identify bottlenecks.
• You have experience working with relational databases and working knowledge of Structured Query Language (SQL).
• You have strong interpersonal communication skills to collaborate effectively with developers, product owners, and other stakeholders.
• You have conversational proficiency in Mandarin or French to facilitate communication in a multilingual environment.

Additional Information

We support your development! Do you feel you don’t match 100% of the requirements? Don’t hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.

We embrace diversity!  As an Equal Opportunity Employer, the Eurofins network of companies believes in strength and innovation through diversity. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.

Sustainability matters to us!  We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025, through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives we count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!

Find out more on our Careers page: https://careers.eurofins.com/

Company description: Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.

The Eurofins network of companies believes that it is a global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and agroscience contract research services. It is also one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, and in the support of clinical studies, as well as in biopharma contract development and manufacturing. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In over 37 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to ca. 63,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of more than 950 laboratories in over 1,000 companies across 60 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.

In 2024, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.95 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.