About Trimble Land Administration Trimble’s Land Administration solutions automate and integrate land registries, cadastral mapping, and the permitting and licensing of land for surveyors, governments and businesses worldwide. Through the integration of a broad portfolio of technologies with workflow management tools, and consulting services, Trimble provides a fully configurable, scalable solution to help drive the efficient administration of land and its associated transactions, rights, and agreements. Trimble Land Administration R&D Team Trimble Land Administration seeks an enthusiastic, skilled, experienced automation engineer to join the R&D team in Cape Town. The team focuses on the product engineering and quality assurance of Trimble’s Landfolio enterprise suite of software, used by major natural resource companies and government agencies around the world. We are looking for smart, curious people who can get things done. You would join an established and welcoming team that is expanding its product suite (using RESTful web APIs and Angular SPAs) which requires a commensurate increase in automated testing capability. We offer a challenging, engaging and edifying environment, applying both new and proven technologies to solve practical problems that make a difference in the world. Qualifications and Experience Tertiary education in a relevant technical field, e.g. BTech or BSc 4 to 7 years of combined experience working on large scale Enterprise IT projects as a Test Automation Engineer, Software Engineer or equivalent role Proven understanding of testing concepts through the software development lifecycle (unit, performance, regression) and capability to write effective test cases and test plans Proven ability to implement automated functional testing, integration testing and load / performance testing Exposure to case management and version control systems Technical Skills Working knowledge of test automation frameworks such as Cypress/Jasmine/Mocha for JavaScript-based testing and Atata with Selenium web drivers for C#-based testing, as well as C# or an equivalent scripting environment Understanding of RESTful web APIs and web application architecture Structured Query Language (SQL) Working knowledge of HTML & CSS Proven experience in JavaScript Automated test development within the web environment Personal Skills Must be willing to learn & take on new challenges Must be able to work in a dynamic, changing environment Strong desire to deliver best of breed solutions Strong sense of ownership, urgency & drive Attention to detail Good interpersonal skills
