Test Automation Engineer II

PDI Overview
PDI helps convenience store retailers and petroleum wholesale marketers worldwide thrive in a digital
economy with enterprise management software. Over 1,500 customers operating more than 200,000
locations trust PDI to optimize their operations, whether they are a single site, multi-site, dealer or a
franchise operator. PDI’s enterprise software, wholesale and logistics management software solutions
and retail back office systems have been designed around the evolving needs of customers for more than
35 years. We re-imagine enterprise management to help our customers transform their business and
deliver exceptional experiences. Backed by the investment of TA Associates, Genstar and Insight Venture
Partners, PDI is embarking upon an aggressive expansion strategy through internal investment in
development as well as intensive M&A activity. The result will be a broader, more powerful, international
company that serves customers across the entire supply chain, from wholesalers, to retailers, and every
stop in between.

Job Summary
If you love to design scalable fault-tolerant systems that can run efficiently with high performance and
are eager to learn new technologies and develop new skills, then we have a great opportunity for you:
join our PDI family and work closely with other talented PDI engineers to deliver solutions that delight
our customers every day!

You will play a key role in designing and building our market leading software products as we drive
to continuously increase our cloud maturity and mobility. You will be working as a key part of an agile
team to design, build, test, and support PDI's enterprise software solutions. You will review, recommend
& implement system enhancements that will improve the quality, performance, and maintainability of
our products. You will be responsible for contributing to an always improving Engineering environment
by ensuring all stakeholders (engineers, architects, product owners, SREs, IT Ops…) are informed of
status and supported in their roles.

With the variety of environments, platforms, technologies & languages, you must be comfortable working
in both Windows & Linux environments, including PowerShell scripting & bash, database administration
as well as bare metal virtualization technologies and public cloud environments (GCP, AWS, Azure).

Responsibilities
 Oversee and contribute to design decisions for new and existing test automation efforts, proactively escalating issues and seeking assistance to overcome obstacles
 Guide and train less experienced test automation engineers
 Be part of an Agile team, participate in all Agile ceremonies & activities and be accountable for the sprint deliverable
 Participate in Release/Iteration planning, smoke, feature and regression test planning
 Design & build automation smoke, feature & regression tests
 Review code with your peers for testability, supportability and look for full unit test coverage
 Write feature use cases in BDD to drive the creation of automated test cases
 Set up test environments as required including client and web applications, services and databases
 Prepare Automation Test Plans for Service Level Tests, Integration Tests and UI tests as needed
 Review product owner acceptance criteria and look for non-functional requirement gaps to fill
 Support automating traceability of Stories, Acceptance Criteria and Test cases through the integration of CI and BDD frameworks and tools.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
 3-7 years’ experience in software development & software automation
 2+ years of practical experience with Agile development methodologies
 Proficient in at least one SQL based RDBMS, DML & DDL: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server
 Proficient writing test automation for SOAP & REST Web Services
 Proficient with several programming languages: C#, Java, Node.JS/JavaScript, Delphi
 Experience with BDD, gherkin language
 Experience with test automation tools: JMeter, SpecFlow, Selenium, Coypu, Cucumber
 Working experience hooking windows and web controls via code
 Experience integrating testing results with CI tools: MSBuild, Jenkins, SonarQube
 Experience with network management, windows application, services, web application and database setup
 Working experience writing functional and performance tests for Web APIs and Web Applications
 Highly motivated self-starter with a desire to help others and take action
 Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts into non-technical terms
 Ability to independently work as a contributing member in a high-paced and focused team
 Collaborative in nature with a strong desire to dig in and learn independently and as well as through asking questions
 Considers ‘best-practice’ standards, as well as departmental policies and procedures
 Strong computer science fundamentals: OOP, design patters, data structures & algorithms
 Fuel Retail, Wholesale or Logistics domain experience preferred.