QA - Automation/manual Tester

The Ford Credit Technology & Software organization creates digital software products for dealers and customers to support Ford Credit's strategic goal to be the reason customers choose and stay with Ford.

Automation QA Engineer for Ford Pro Insure will contribute to the development of new digital products for Ford Credit Commercial customers. Ford Pro Insure will expand the one-stop shop of products and services offered by FordPro to commercial customers. FordPro customers have come to expect a complete set of products and services that ensure their fleets are the most efficient and productive business tools they can be.

Automation QA Engineer for Ford Pro Insure will
- Collaborate with the team to help make well-thought-out decisions on complex or ambiguous testing issues and establish the test approach and direction for the project.
- Work closely with other stakeholders & teams across Ford Credit

This position reports to Senior Engineering Manager of Ford Pro Insure.

Key Ford Credit TSP Organization Facts
- Over 1,000 global team members
- Spread across 8 locations: USA, Argentina, Brazil, United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, India, and China

Functional & Technical Skills
- Ability to convert complex business, technical requirements and use cases to test cases and test plans
- Experience working on cloud and digital platforms
- Experience with Lean and Agile methodologies & eXtreme Programming
- Experience collaborating with product managers, engineers, designers, and product owners
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to adapt your communication style to the audience
- Ability to work collaboratively and navigate complex decision making in a rapidly changing environment

**Required Work Experience**:

- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field
- 4+ years of experience in development of automation test cases preferable in a SaaS environment.
- Strong hands-on experience with Cypress, Selenium or RestAssured for automation frameworks.
- Superior Javascript skills required
- Experience working directly with JMeter, LoadRunner, Karate API, YAML, Postman
- Superior knowledge of agile best practices, continuous testing in a CI/CD environment such as GCP DevOps
- Experience with SCM tools like GitHub, JIRA, familiarity with SQL
- Experience with Cucumber (BDD) is a plus.
- Basic knowledge of Cloud Architecture, Cloud Security; Cloud platforms
- Strong communication skills; must be able to work in a self-driven manner within a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment
- P&C Insurance industry experience required
- Collaborate within an agile team providing input for product backlog, sprint planning, story development and testing, demos, and team retrospective
- Provide estimates and timelines for test automation and projects
- Define, establish, extend and maintain test automation libraries, frameworks and tooling solutions, primarily focused on Automated Smoke, Functional and Regression Testing efforts
- Create and execute system, regression, and integrated tests across multiple environments as changes are promoted and staged for production
- Develop and execute test automation scripts using tools/frameworks
- Incorporate test automation into CI / CD process
- Gain test script sign off from QA/Dev Managers on the test scripts.
- Provide training and guidance for QA practices and the automation efforts
- Depending on size and complexity of project, may also be assigned to perform duties of project