QA Automation Testing

**Responsibilities**:

- Responsible for initiatives related to User Acceptance Testing (UAT) process and product rollout into production, making recommendations of solutions and improvements. Responsibilities may also include software quality assurance testing.
- Conducts complex process monitoring, product evaluation and audit assignments; reports issues and makes recommendations for solutions.
- Ensures project standards and procedures exist, are fully / clearly documented and followed throughout the software development life cycle; makes recommendations for enhanced documentation.
- Monitors products for conformance to standards; monitors processes for conformance to procedures; identifies risks and recommends solutions; ensures annual organizational reviews of standards and procedures are conducted.
- Documents findings and performs root cause analyses to provide recommended improvements. Independently recommends solutions and improvements to existing standards and procedures; collaborates with other areas in technology to develop new standards and procedures.
- Ensures all corrective actions are assigned, documented and completed. Verifies traceability in project work products. Gathers, maintains and creates reports on quality metrics.
- Exhibits sound understanding of concepts and principles in own technical area and a basic knowledge of these elements in other areas.
- Requires in-depth understanding of how own area integrates within IT Quality and has basic commercial awareness.
- Acts as advisor and mentor for junior members of the team.
- Makes evaluative judgments based on analysis of factual information in complicated and novel situations and provides solutions to problems.
- Has direct impact on the team and closely related teams by ensuring the quality of the tasks/services/information provided by self and others.
- Requires sound and comprehensive communication and diplomacy skills to exchange complex information.
- Performs other duties and functions as assigned.
- Be a key QA advocate within the feature team
- Help Define a set of QA engineering guidelines for the team
- Represent QA on our daily scrum calls and any planning sessions
- Actively engage an drive out testing acceptance criteria for new features
- Ensure JIRA tickets being worked on adhere to quality guidelines
- Be accountable for recording defects along with descriptions as well as test evidence (Both positive and negative).
- Work with the team and drive change to improve automation of end of test reports
- Build and maintain QA Reporting capabilities
- Provide support, share knowledge and train other team members

**Essential Skills**
- Experience writing clear, concise test plans and test cases (Function and Non-Functional) as well as their execution in an appropriate tool (ALM, JIRA/XRAY etc)
- Experience using T-SQL for analyzing data and must be very comfortable with table joins, grouping and stored procedures.
- Testing of APIs
- Designing of tests that will cover a process end to end (SourceàConsumptionàPersistenceàExtraction)
- Good understanding of relational database design principles

**Highly Desirable**
- Experience of Automated testing tools such as Cucumber.
- Exposure to Java/Pyton/.net
- Unix scripting
- Experience testing microservices
- CI/CD best practices for automating testing

**Qualifications**:

- 8-10 years experience in an IT Quality role.
- Demonstrated execution capabilities.
- Development experience in a fast-paced, time-to-market driven environment Experience with test automation, test scenario and test scripts creation and modification Comfortable with writing complex queries Experience with reporting tools. Hands on experience with testing automation tools.
- Project management experience preferred

**Education**:

- Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience
- **Job Family Group**:
Technology
- **Job Family**:
Technology Quality
- **Time Type**:
Full time
- Citi is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.

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