Test Automation Engineer

Overview

As a Test Automation Engineer at Ricoh, you’ll join a cloud-focused quality team to elevate automated testing across our products. You’ll influence how quality is engineered and help advance an AI-supported automation framework, collaborating with cross-functional peers. Expect to tackle complex problems, explore new tools, and continuously grow your automation capabilities in a supportive, inclusive culture. This role offers meaningful work aligned with Ricoh’s mission to improve how people work and deliver impact at scale.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible working
• wellbeing resources
• learning pathways and mentoring
• career opportunities across functions and countries
• recognition programs (Imagine. Change. Awards)
• volunteering and sustainability initiatives

Responsibilities

• Collaborate in a cross-functional agile team to deliver cloud-based solutions
• Design automated test coverage from requirements and acceptance criteria
• Specify automated test cases and review approaches with testers and QE professionals
• Develop and maintain automated tests using Playwright, JavaScript, and TypeScript
• Investigate failures, identify root causes, and improve automation reliability
• Participate in peer reviews and contribute to engineering standards for automated testing
• Enhance AI-supported test automation framework with fellow engineers
• Identify opportunities to improve test coverage, efficiency, scalability, and maintainability
• Evaluate new automation techniques and AI-assisted approaches to improve testing effectiveness
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines with build and platform engineers
• Contribute ideas to boost product quality and team effectiveness
• Participate in retrospectives and continuous improvement activities
• Contribute to shaping the future direction of automation capabilities

Key requirements

• Degree-level education preferred in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
• Experience in test automation with JavaScript and TypeScript
• Proven experience with Playwright or a comparable framework
• Advantageous experience with AI-assisted development tools (Cursor, GitHub Copilot)
• Understanding of agile software development and CI/CD environments
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a focus on quality improvement through automation
• Professional English proficiency (written and spoken)
• ISTQB CTFL certification desirable; CTAL Test Automation Engineer certification advantageous
• Natural ability to solve problems and explore new technologies

• Collaborative mindset
• Analytical thinking
• Continuous learning
• Playwright
• JavaScript
• TypeScript

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