Senior Automation Engineer

Experience Required: 4-9.5 years Role: Senior Quality Engineer Education: Full time Bachelor’s/Master’s engineering degree Mandatory Skills- Java Coding, Selenium UI Testing, Rest assured, BDD, Cucumber Immediate Joiners are preferred Role Requirements Technical skills: Must Haves - Experience with QE for distributed, highly scalable systems - Good understanding of OOPS concepts and strong programming skills in Java, Groovy or JavaScript - Hands on experience of working with at least one of GUI based test automation tools for desktop and/or mobile automation. Experience on multiple tools will be added advantage - Proficient in writing SQL queries - Familiarity with process of test automation tool selection & test approach - Experience in designing and development of automation framework and creation of scripts using best industry practices such as Page object model - Integrate test suites into the test management system and custom test harness - Familiar with implementation of design patterns, modularization, and user libraries for framework creation - Can mentor team as well as has short learning curve for new technology - Understands all aspects of Quality Engineering - Understanding of SOAP and REST principles Thorough understanding of microservices architecture - In-depth hands-on experience of working with at least one API testing tool like RestAssured, SOAP UI, NodeJS - Hands-on experience working with Postman or similar tool - Hands-on experience in parsing complex JSON & XML and data validation using serialization techniques like POJO classes or similar - Hands-on experience in performing Request and Response Schema validation, Response codes and exceptions - Good Understanding of BDD, TDD methodologies and tools like Cucumber, TestNG, Junit or similar. - Experience in defining API E2E testing strategy, designing and development of API automation framework - Working experience on build tools Maven / Gradle, Git etc. - Experience in creating test pipeline – CI/CD Preferred: (Mostly for people being hired at the Senior Associate Career Stage) - Possess domain knowledge to identify issues across those domains, understand their impact, and drive resolution ((familiar / expert in domains like retail banking, automobile, insurance, betting, food-markets, hotel industry, healthcare) - Used /Exposure to automation tool for automating mobile applications - Used /Exposure to automation tool for non-functional testing - To setup test environment for execution on cloud environments such as Sauce labs, browser stack - Knowledge of new tools (open source & licensed) in the automation world and have the knack to explore them and keep abreast with the latest tools in the market - Expertise in creating test automation frameworks, implementing and maintaining them on a project Experience in the modern agile practices such as BDD/Cucumber, Devops - Knowledge and experience in service virtualization and tools like CA Lisa - Hands-on knowledge of setting up PACT Broker and writing PACT tests is desirable - Experience in test management tools like Xray & Zephyr and integration of test framework with these tools - Understanding of commonly used software design patterns like Builder, Factory, Singleton and Façade. Test Management: Must Haves - Able to estimate for low and medium complexity applications and have used at least one of the estimation techniques. - Able to handle/oversight a small team ranging from 2 -5 people and can guide them during the complete SDLC cycle starting from test case creation till test closure activities - Well-versed with the most of the activities in defect management process, can define/enhance the defect documentation and TAR lifecycle process independently - Have expertise to enforce/adhere defect or other processes in the team Preferred (Mostly for people being hired at the Senior Associate Career Stage) - Mentored or coached at least one person - Can define Automation Test strategy and test plan for low and medium complexity applications taking into