Test Automation Engineer at Reply in Technology, Nakuru, Kenya

Test Automation Engineer

About Reply:

Reply specialises in designing and implementing solutions based on new communication channels and digital media. Structured as a network of highly specialised companies, Reply supports leading European industrial groups in sectors such as Telco & Media, Industry and Services, Banking and Insurance, and Public Administration, helping define and develop business models enabled by new paradigms such as AI, Cloud Computing, Digital Media, and the Internet of Things. Reply’s services include Consulting, System Integration, and Digital Services.

Role Overview:

Are you passionate about Test Automation and building robust frameworks? We are seeking a Test Automation Expert to lead and evolve our testing framework for WeChat Mini Program apps. You’ll work on a high-impact initiative that drives automated test creation and execution inside Weixin DevTools—while exploring innovative approaches (including functional agents) to speed up authoring, maintenance, and reliability.

You’ll work closely with a supportive team focused on quality at scale, engineering excellence, and continuous improvement. Along the way, you’ll gain hands-on experience with modern JavaScript tooling, multi-platform automation, and end-to-end CI/CD practices. This role offers strong long-term growth, giving you ownership over the framework’s direction, best practices, and meaningful innovation in the test automation space.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the project lead to enhance and scale our Testing Framework for Weixin DevTools (WeChat Mini Program E2E and regression testing)
• Design and develop JavaScript/TypeScript modules, utilities, and helpers for test authoring, data management, and execution
• Integrate and optimize third-party tools for orchestration and evaluation (e.g., WebdriverIO, Selenium, Appium), including parallelization and CI/CD pipelines
• Define and support QA testing phases (smoke, regression, integration, E2E, UAT) and implement best practices in test design and maintainability
• Build reusable patterns (page objects/screenplay), selectors, fixtures, and stubs/mocks to stabilize and scale the test suite
• Introduce innovations to accelerate testing—such as functional agents for code generation, smart selectors, self-healing locators, and automated test data strategies
• Contribute to metrics and reporting: coverage, stability, flakiness rate, pass/fail trends, and time-to-detect/repair
• Support continuous validation, experimentation, and automation throughout development cycles; mentor contributors to the framework

About the candidate:

• A minimum Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a technology-related field
• Strong expertise in JavaScript (and ideally TypeScript) with solid Node.js fundamentals
• Hands-on experience with test automation frameworks and tools; knowledge of WebdriverIO preferred; Appium and Selenium are welcomed
• Proven QA tester background with understanding of testing phases, test design techniques (e.g., equivalence partitioning, boundary values), and defect lifecycle
• Experience building or maintaining automation frameworks, including utilities for data management, reporting, and CI integration
• Familiarity with mobile or mini‑program testing; exposure to Weixin DevTools or the WeChat Mini Program ecosystem is a strong plus
• Comfort with asynchronous programming, selectors strategy, network interception/mocking, and flaky test mitigation
• Curiosity, autonomy, and a collaborative mindset—especially on exploratory and framework-level initiatives

Reply is an Equal Opportunities Employer and committed to embracing diversity in the workplace. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type regardless of age, sexual orientation, gender, identity, pregnancy, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, disability, medical history, skin colour, marital status or parental status or any other characteristic protected by the Law.

Reply is committed to making sure that our selection methods are fair to everyone. To help you during the recruitment process, please let us know of any Reasonable Adjustments you may need.