Test Automation Engineer

Core responsibilities include:

• Design, build, maintain and run Robot Framework validation suites for instrument data converted to Allotrope Simple Model (ASM) JSON.
• Translate business requirements, field mappings, SOPs and validation standards into automated schema, mapping, semantic and formatting checks.
• Develop Python readers, custom Robot keywords and reusable validation libraries for CSV, XML, XLS/XLSX, JSON and instrument-specific formats.
• Perform smoke, functional, regression, UAT and cross-version testing across converter releases and instrument datasets.
• Conduct root-cause analysis to distinguish converter defects, source-data issues, schema changes and test automation defects.
• Analyze validation results using SQL, DuckDB and Parquet to identify new, recurring, resolved, reopened and regressed findings.
• Prepare and publish Test Summary, Defect Summary, HTML/JSON and trend reports for technical and business stakeholders.
• Maintain CI/CD execution and reporting through GitHub Actions, containerized test environments, Artifactory, Jira and Xray.

• Employment: B2B contract with apreel
• Duration: long-term cooperation

Required skills/experience

• 5+ years of software quality engineering or test automation experience, including at least 2 years of data-centric validation.
• 2+ years of hands-on Robot Framework experience, including reusable resources, custom Python keyword libraries, parameterized testing, and Robot output analysis.
• Strong Python development skills for parsing, transformation, JSON traversal, numerical comparison, and automated validation.
• Experience writing SQL for data reconciliation, quality analysis, regression trending, and defect investigation
• Experience validating source-to-target mappings across JSON, CSV, XML, XLS/XLSX, and structured or semi-structured text formats.
• Knowledge of JSON Schema, semantic data models, controlled vocabularies, and schema-driven validation; Allotrope ASM experience is preferred.
• Experience with smoke, functional, regression, and UAT testing, including defect lifecycle management and root cause analysis.
• Experience with Git, GitHub Actions or equivalent CI/CD tooling, containerized execution, dependency management, and automated report publishing.
• Experience with Jira, Xray, Agile delivery, test evidence management, and regulated or GxP laboratory environments.

Tech stack

Python, Robot Framework, SQL, JSON, Databases, CI/CD, Git