SUMMARY

This job position is a Hands-on Individual Contributor role in the Productivity Engineering (PE) organization at Rakuten Rewards. The PE organization in Rakuten Rewards is committed to delivering innovative, automated, and self-service infrastructure using cost-effective technologies to empower autonomous product development teams (Tribes & Squads) in achieving their objectives

Rakuten International oversees 7 businesses with over 4,000 employees globally. The brand is recognized for its leadership and innovation in e-commerce, digital content, advertising, entertainment, and communications, bringing the joy of discovery and access to more than 1 billion members across the world. Our teams deliver on the company's mission to delight merchants and customers through innovation, optimism, and teamwork.

As a QA Automation Engineer, you'll be responsible for testing scalable web services, RESTful APIs, and working with AWS and Kafka. With at least 3 years of hands-on experience, you'll contribute significantly to the development and maintenance of both automation and manual test suites, ensuring the reliability and robustness of our technology stack.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design, develop, execute, analyze results and maintain test suites and automated test frameworks for backend systems
• Leverage Java, SQL, Cloud Services, and testing methodologies to ensure software reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop comprehensive test strategies for backend services.
• Implement automated test frameworks using Java, Groovy, and BDD tools (Spock, Cucumber).
  Participate in code reviews to improve the quality and reliability of the backend codebase.
• Continuously enhance QA processes, tools, and methodologies for greater efficiency and effectiveness.
• Incorporate DevOps and Quality practices into testing processes to ensure seamless integration and deployment of applications.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Proficiency in Java (or similar) programming language and experience with creating and maintaining automation frameworks and automation scripts.
• Strong experience with backend technologies such as RESTful APIs, SQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, Snowflake), and server-side frameworks (e.g., Spring Boot)
• Proven experience with AWS services, including EC2, S3, EKS, RDS, MSK etc.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a meticulous attention to detail.
• Must be team-oriented and yet be capable of working largely on your own with minimum supervision.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

• B.S. or M.S in Computer Science or equivalent Qualification
• 3+ years of experience in quality assurance, with a focus on
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Java, or JavaScript.
• Experience with test automation frameworks such as JUnit, Spock, TestNG

Five Principles for Success
Our worldwide practices describe specific behaviors that make Rakuten unique and united across the world. We expect Rakuten employees to model these 5 Shugi Principles of Success.

Always improve, Always Advance - Only be satisfied with complete success - Kaizen
Passionately Professional - Take an uncompromising approach to your work and be determined to be the best
Hypothesize - Practice - Validate - Shikumika - Use the Rakuten Cycle to succeed in unknown territory
Maximize Customer Satisfaction - The greatest satisfaction for our teams is seeing their customers smile
Speed!! Speed!! Speed!! - Always be conscious of time - take charge, set clear goals, and engage your team

Rakuten provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type. Rakuten considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, provincial or local laws.

At the time of posting, Rakuten expects the base compensation for this role to be within the range shown below. Individual compensation will vary based on job-related factors, including the skills, qualifications, and experience of the successful candidate as well as business need and geographic location. The successful applicant for this role will be eligible for discretionary bonus, health, vision, dental insurance, 401k matching, PTO, Volunteer Time Off (VTO), and other employee benefits as the company implements.

USD $96,442.50 - $163,680.00 annually