Automation Engineer

Job Description

The Team:

A part of Ratings Technology, the Ratings QA team leads the IT organization in the delivery of trusted quality to our users. From a foundation of disciplined processes, QA seeks out innovative testing solutions, reliable & transparent test execution, and aspires towards continuous improvement in achieving top quality. In close partnership with Product Management and Product Engineering, QA team members help drive quality accountability, and work to ensure our end users receive reliable, stable, defect free products, which help confidently execute our business and elevate our products.

What's in it for you:

- Working with a team of highly skilled, ambitious, and result-oriented professionals.
- Using a wide range of cutting-edge technology to innovate while testing.
- An ever-challenging environment to hone your existing skills in Automation, performance, service layer testing, SQL scripting etc.
- A great opportunity to think and execute like a developer while performing the role of QA.
- Being a part of an organization which values Culture of Urgency and Shift Left approaches.
- A plenty of skill building, knowledge sharing, and innovation opportunities.
- Building a fulfilling career with a global financial technology company.

Key Roles & Responsibilities:

- Design and develop automation solutions that meet organization standards and build reliable, reusable, and maintainable automated regression suites & test harnesses.
- Create tools and frameworks with quality code to simplify testing scenarios.Design and develop test plans, test cases based upon functional and design specifications, execute test cases, and analyze and report test results to the teams.Work in partnership with the development teams to deliver business functionality on time with required quality that meets the acceptance criteria.
- Acts as a test lead, planning the work of other testing staff and assigning tasks to meet project deadlines.Mentor/upskill junior team members and provide guidance on best practices in test automation.Participate in code reviews to ensure high standards of code quality.
- Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies in test automation.Uses strong testing skills to provide guidance and assist project staff.Reviews and approves the work of project team members in the writing of scripts, expected results, test results and defect descriptions. Ensures best practices are followed and testing activities stay on schedule.
- Focus on building efficient solutions for Web, Services/APIs, Database testing requirements.Participate in internal/cross team meetings, project scoping, functional reviews, test specifications, technical reviews for assigned projects in an Agile environment.Involved in requirements review and participate in architecture/design reviews with an emphasis on test automation/performance strategy and ensuring best practices.
- Participate actively in functional, system and regression testing activities.
- Capture quality assurance data and metrics to provide insights and conclusions.Estimate and perform risk analysis for quality delivery.Agile evangelist

Qualifications:

- 5+ years of strong hands-on TOSCA automation testing & engineering.
- Complete Knowledge on TOSCA Server side configuration
- Advanced Knowledge of Modules and Test Case section in TOSCA
- Very good at Best Practices implementation in TOSCA automation
- Integration of TOSCA with ADO
- Good Hands on TOSCA REST API to implement custom solutions for Maintenance
- Hands on TOSCA TCSHELL
- Hands on Distributed Execution with and without AOS
- TOSSCA User Management with AD and OKTA
- TOSCA Version Management
- Hands on Web services and DB Testing with TOSCA
- Hands on executing scripts created with js/PowerShell/VBS
- TOSCA Report Designing
- Good Knowledge in TQL to create custom queries

General:

- Excellent understanding of QA and testing methodologies, best practices
- Excellent hands-on in programming languages such as Python (preferred), Java or JavaScript.
- Excellent logical thinking and problem-solving skills and experience in Agile processes (Scrum preferred)
- Experience in CI/CD/CT tools such as Azure DevOps (preferred), Jenkins
- Experience in Accessibility, Visual and Cross Browser/Device testing.
- Experience of working with Rest and SOAP services and understanding of SOA architecture
- Experience in creating and maintaining test automation framework is mandatory.
- Experience using SQL to query databases required.
- Exposure to distributed source control systems such as Git
- Experience with test data management techniques & change management and defect tracking tools.
- Zeal to be domain expert and learn new technologies.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and written communications
- High standards of confidentiality; ability to handle sensitive information with integrity and trust.
- Knowledge of cloud technologies like AWS/Azure and experience of testing micro-services, containers, Dockers, and Kubernetes is preferred.
- Should be a self-motivated, result-oriented, and excellent team player.
- Should be able to work under a competitive time frame and deliver.
- Should be a very fast learner and have the excellent problem-solving ability.

Minimum and Preferred Education:

- Bachelor's or higher qualification in Computer Science, Information Systems or equivalent is preferred

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