Automation Engineer

Salary Competitive

SpotX is seeking a highly talented, Automation career focused Automation Engineer who can contribute brilliantly to our team located in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Every day, our engineers transform online video advertising and solve difficult problems by employing creativity, innovation and solid technical expertise. We are a fast-paced but casual environment with highly talented peers. The most successful team members are versatile, disciplined and enjoy focusing on new challenges.


Making an immediate impact:

- Build automation frameworks on a Lamp stack for web applications, web services and backend systems

- Utilise relevant open source testing tools

- Not only will you be building and maintaining the automation frameworks, but also mentoring the QA teams in using the frameworks

- Support the QA teams in writing automated test cases

Needed SpotX’er talents:

- 3 to 5 years experience in Automation

- Passion for an Automation career

- Programming experience in PHP, Java, Python, etc

- SQL

- Experience in building Automation frameworks

- Experience with OpenSource tools

- Mentoring and training

- Strong verbal and written skills

- Able to handle small details

- Comfortable at a shell prompt (Unix/linux experience)

- Comfortable reading and writing XML

- Understanding of source control (Subversion, GIT, etc)

- A love for making software better!

Bonus SpotX’er talents:

- HTML / CSS

- JavaScript

- Web-scale environments

SpotX Perks:

- Work in a fun, casual, team environment with great work-life balance

- Great holidays, company closed from Christmas to New Years

- Make a real difference - the code you test reaches millions of people as soon as it is released

SpotX is the leading global video advertising platform that enables media owners and publishers to monetise premium content across desktop, mobile and connected TV devices.

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Free coffee / tea
Free coffee / tea

Get your caffeine fix to get you started and keep you going.

Maternity / paternity leave
Maternity / paternity leave

Kids are the future, go spend time with them.

Pension plan
Pension plan

We take care of you, even when you are old and wrinkly.

Social gatherings
Social gatherings

Social gatherings and games; hang out with your colleagues.

Flexible working hours
Flexible working hours

Time is precious. Make it count. Morning person or night owl, this job is for you.

Near public transit
Near public transit

Easy access and treehugger friendly workplace.

Working at
SpotX

SpotX is the leading global video advertising platform that enables media owners and publishers to monetise premium content across desktop, mobile and connected TV devices. As a modern ad server with programmatic infrastructure, data enablement, and monetisation solutions for OTT, outstream, and addressable TV, SpotX gives media owners and publishers the control, transparency, and actionable insights needed to understand buyer behaviour, manage access and pricing, and maximise revenue. SpotX also provides advertisers with a direct pipeline to premium supply and innovative solutions for optimising media efficiency, reach, and audience targeting. With best-in-class technology purpose-built for video, SpotX’s holistic, brand-safe solution is employed by some of the largest media owners and publishers in the world including fuboTV, Microsoft Casual Games, Newsy, Samba TV, Sling TV, Vudu and partners with a variety of different companies within the digital video ecosystem including comScore, DoubleVerify, Integral Ad Science, JW Player, MediaMath, MOAT, Nielsen, Oracle, and more.  .

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