QA Automation Engineer

OVERVIEW:

The ideal candidate is a QA Engineer with experience in both Manual and Automation Testing and demonstrates the ability to: multitask in a fast-paced environment, work well with people from a variety of different backgrounds and cultures, build relationships with co-workers, work independently and as part of a team, take active measures to solve problems and commit to a high level of service aligned with business and compliance requirements. This role is ideal for someone with solid technical fundamentals and a desire to continuously learn new tools, languages, and strategies to strengthen test coverage and delivery quality.

DESCRIPTION:

The QA Automation Engineer shall apply engineering principles to the design, development, and implementation of end-to-end software tests, focusing primarily on automation frameworks and quality reporting systems.

The Engineer will collaborate closely with developers, product managers, and QA leads to ensure high product quality and to surface functional issues early in the development lifecycle. He will need to complete all other tasks that are deemed appropriate for this role and assigned by the manager/supervisor. The QA Automation Engineer will report to and support the current Senior QA Analyst of the project. Additional tasks may be assigned by the supervisor as appropriate to the role.

REQUIRED SKILLS:

Operational Collaboration:

- Ability to work on multiple products or tasks simultaneously as per priority.
- Coordinate testing with different offices and teams.
- Provide automated and well-structured test reports.
- Support documentation and technical teams in analysis, functional comprehension, and troubleshooting.

Skillsets:

- Strong leadership and ownership of testing tasks and automation initiatives.
- Problem solving and analytical skills.
- Ability to design, build, and maintain a test automation framework.
- Deep experience with Java, Selenium (WebDriver), TestNG/JUnit, Maven, and Rest Assured.
- Quick learner of new scripting languages and tools (e.g., Python, PHP, Perl, or shell scripting).
- Proficient in functional and API testing (REST APIs via Postman or automation).
- Interpersonal skills - proactive communication with written and spoken communication skills in English.
- Time management and organizational skills with the ability to prioritize in a fast-paced environment.
- Proactive self-starter attitude with desire to own projects and resourceful with the drive to learn and improve skills.
- Knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, processes and ability to work in an Agile lifecycle.
- Team player with strong interpersonal skills and ability to establish and maintain good working relationships.
- Knowledge of functional testing and a comprehensive familiarity and proven experience in OOP.
- Excellent debugging skills with the ability to understand system behavior, trace logs, and pinpoint issues.
- Ability to define problems, collect data, analyze data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
- Ability to expand/refactor existing automation frameworks and excellent debugging skills.
- Well-grounded skills related to networking, CMS and database technologies.

QA Tasks:

- Review design specifications to understand the software product's scope, requirements, and functionality.
- Create, modify, execute automated test cases and maintain test cases required for all aspects of testing.
- Conducts testing to ensure that a product is performing according to user requirements and within established guidelines.
- Monitor, manage and report bugs using bug tracking tools such as JIRA.
- Monitor logs, understand the issues and provide appropriate status reports on a daily basis.
- Research, develop and test third party applications and solutions on Linux and Windows.
- Create virtual environments with various operating systems, databases, content management systems and troubleshoot when required.
- Participate in defining and documenting internal Quality Controls workflows in accordance to the Project Quality Assurance plans.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS:

- 2+ years of experience in Software Testing.
- BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject.
- Good experience in design, development and debugging of test automation scripts using Selenium (WebDriver), Maven, Rest Assured, Junit, TestNG.
- Experience testing REST APIs using postman.
- Strong analysis and autonomous problem discovery and solving skills.
- Experience with JIRA, Confluence and TestRail.
- Knowledge of databases and content management systems.

DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

- Knowledge of Unix commands, SQL and familiarity with MongoDB would be an added advantage.
- Experience in automated testing of APIs is an added advantage.
- Initiate and monitor load tests, make adjustments for scalability, functionality, and usability.
- A set of well-grounded skills relating to at least three of the following: Linux, SQL Databases, Globalization/Translation Memory Systems, Java, Script languages (PHP, Python, PERL, Regular Expressions), Automation Tools (Rest Assured, Postman/Newman, Pytest) or RESTful APIs.

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