Sr. Engineer QA (Automation)

About Netafim:

At Netafim we work side by side with millions of farmers and communities around the world to address one of agricultures most pressing challenges: how to produce more food with fewer resources in an increasingly unpredictable environment. For more than 60 years Netafim has been a global leader in precision irrigation powered by people working across teams and geographies to bring together agronomy engineering data and innovation.

Together we help improve decision-making in the field and drive better outcomes across crops and climates turning complexity into clarity and making agriculture more precise efficient and sustainable to enable farmers to grow more with less.

About Orbia:

Orbia Advance Corporation is a company driven by a shared purpose: to advance life around the world. Orbia operates in the Polymer Solutions Building & Infrastructure (Wavin) Precision Agriculture (Netafim) Connectivity Solutions (Dura-Line) and Fluor & Energy Materials sectors. The five Orbia business groups have a collective focus on ensuring food and water security expanding information access and connectivity and advancing decarbonization and the energy transition with basic and advanced materials specialty products and innovative solutions. Orbia has a global team of over 22000 employees commercial activities in more than 100 countries and operations in over 50 with a strong U.S. manufacturing presence and headquarters in Boston Mexico City Amsterdam and Tel Aviv. The company generated $7.6 billion in revenue in 2025. To learn more visit:

Job Summary

At Netafim Digital Farming AI is core to our engineering culture and we expect QA engineers to use AI tools daily to improve quality and productivity. As a QA Automation Engineer you will ensure the quality reliability and performance of our Web Mobile API and backend systems through automation AI-driven quality engineering and continuous testing collaborating closely with Engineers Product DevOps and Customer Success teams.

Responsibilities

Design develop and maintain automation frameworks for Web Mobile and API using TypeScript Python or Java.

Build UI automation with Playwright and mobile automation with Appium; develop API and integration tests.

Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and quality gates; improve test stability and coverage.

Analyze failures perform root cause analysis and leverage AI tools for faster test development and debugging.

Must-Have Qualifications

Education: Bsc in Computer Science BE Computers IT Electronic and Telecommunication

Programming: Strong hands-on experience in Python with a good understanding of object-oriented programming and automation best practices.

UI Automation: Proven experience in Playwright with Python for Web UI automation.

API Automation: Experience in REST API testing and automation using Playwright/Python or equivalent Python libraries.

Test Frameworks: Strong experience with Pytest and BDD (Behave/Gherkin) for developing and maintaining scalable automation frameworks.

Mobile Automation: Hands-on experience with Appium for Android and/or iOS automation.

Automation Framework Design: Experience designing developing and maintaining reusable automation frameworks following Page Object Model (POM) and other industry best practices.

IoT Testing: Experience testing IoT devices/controllers including end-to-end validation of device communication with backend services web applications and mobile applications.

Version Control & CI/CD: Experience with Git and CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions Azure DevOps Jenkins or similar) and integrating automated tests into deployment pipelines.

Testing Knowledge: Strong understanding of Functional Integration Regression End-to-End and System Testing.

Debugging & Root Cause Analysis: Strong analytical skills to investigate automation failures identify root causes and improve test reliability.

Communication: Good verbal and written English communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively in a cross-functional Agile team.

Nice to Have

Performance testing using tools such as JMeter or k6.

Azure Cloud services and Azure DevOps.

SonarQube or other code quality tools.

MQTT HTTP/HTTPS WebSocket or other IoT communication protocols.

SQL/PostgreSQL or other relational databases.

Experience with Digital Farming Smart Irrigation Industrial IoT or connected device ecosystems will be added advantage.

Performance testing SonarQube and Azure cloud services.

Experience with IoT devices connected systems or Digital Agriculture solutions.

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