Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

Experience : 4 to 12 years

Key Roles & Responsibilities:

• Design and develop automation/performance 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, works well as Individual contributor and lead team by example.
• 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

• 4+ years of software testing experience in all phases of testing including test planning, test execution and test closure for all layer API, DB and UI.
• Excellent understanding of QA and testing methodologies, best practices
• 3+ years of experience as an Automation QA Tester.
• 3+ years of experience creating/maintaining and executing
  automation
  tests utilizing tools such as Selenium required (
  Python essential).
• 3+ Years of experience in Agile processes (Scrum preferred)
• 3+ years of experience of working with
  REST service
  and understanding of SOA architecture. Knowledge of OData and SOAP preferred.
• Experience creating/maintaining automation frameworks preferred.
• Experience of DevOps pipeline in containerized environment using Azure DevOps/Jenkins preferred.
• Expertise using complex SQL to query databases required.
• Expertise with DB process, data validation, transformation logics, and data migration.
• Knowledge of file storage in S3, data validation with clob, blob, and messaging system kafka, JMS preferred.
• Knowledge of automation with application built on Angular JS, Spread JS preferred.
• Exposure to distributed source control systems such as Git.
• Experience with test data management techniques.
• Knowledge of Function as a Service, Container as a service, Data Virtualization (Denodo) preferred.
• Experience with change management and defect tracking tools.
• Well versed with Defect Triage process and identification, tracking of corrective actions.
• Zeal to be domain expert and learn new technologies.
• Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills.
• 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 is preferred

Minimum and Preferred Education

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

Minimum and Preferred Experience/Skills

• 4+ years of relevant experience with bachelor's degree or higher qualification