Software Test Automation Engineer

Job Description:

As a Software Test Automation Engineer, you will work in a product development team that develops highly configurable software in a collaborative environment employing agile development methodologies. As an individual contributor, you participate in the entire life cycle of product development and contribute to build quality product offerings. In conjunction with development engineers, you will design and implement strategies and tools for efficient and comprehensive automated testing with a strong focus on data and analytics platforms.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

Required skills:

• Minimum 3+ years of hands-on experience in software test automation
• Strong expertise in Core Java or Python - object-oriented programming, data structures, and automation framework development
• Advanced Python programming skills for test automation and data validation is preferred
• Selenium frameworks expertise - WebDriver, TestNG/JUnit, and related automation technologies
• Strong SQL skills - capable of developing complex queries for data validation and database testing
• CI/CD pipeline experience - hands-on implementation and maintenance of automated testing pipelines
• Excellent communication skills - ability to articulate technical concepts to diverse stakeholders
• Strong customer focus - understanding of business requirements and customer impact

Preferred skills:

• Experience in testing data projects including Azure Data Factory/SSIS or other relevant experience
• Experience in working with PowerBI
• Experience in API testing
• Knowledge of performance testing tools and methodologies
• Understanding of cloud platforms
• Experience with containerization and microservices testing
• Adoption of AI in daily tasks
• Experience working in SAFe Agile environment and understanding of Agile ceremonies
• Good understanding of source control systems like git or bitbucket and release management

Analyze Business and Technical Requirements:

• Assess compatibility of requirements with company quality standards
• Help ensure the consistency, completeness, accuracy and testability of product requirements
• Develop detailed acceptance requirements for use cases (user stories)

Test planning & Design, Test Execution and Reporting:

• Understand the system design in order to contribute to the development of the project and ensure the quality of the result
• Design, develop, organize, and maintain functional and non-functional test cases adhering to the test case standards
• Identify potential risks and seek testing approaches to manage that risk
• Develop, implement and maintain automated test scripts
• Execute test cases for Functional, Regression, Performance, Load, Integration, System, GUI
• Analyze defects with the goal of being isolated and reproducible, and clearly document issues and bugs
• Work towards in debugging and fixing defects, retesting and resolving open issues
• Work closely with developers, architects to understand underlying architecture and code in order to develop test strategies across different layers of the application
• Understand test automation needs, task out work, and provide feedback on design solutions
• Develop toolsets, frameworks for test automation
• Extend, enhance, update the existing automation frameworks to work with new services and write end-to-end automation for user scenarios (UI, service layer, API, integration, and performance testing)
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipeline integration for automated testing
• Automate newly integrated features
• Assist or lead the scrum team in ensuring comprehensive coverage using automated testing
• Effectively communicate with project leaders and Engineering Management regarding the scope and limits of testing and analysis efforts
• Communicate and report out the testing efforts and technical aspects of projects

Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.