Test Automation Engineer

Job#: 2077619

Job Description:

Position Title: Test Automation Engineer

Overview:

Champion the Enterprise Testing groups mission and vision. Support the design and construction of engineering team test strategies that leverage Enterprise Testing frameworks. Establish, lead, and continuously refine the test automation strategy specifically for Ford Credit's applications and integrated financial products, ensuring rigorous quality standards aligned with business goals, regulatory requirements, and audit needs.

Major Responsibilities:

• Define and implement comprehensive test automation standards, best practices, and guidelines tailored for testing complex, high-transaction financial systems.
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, robust automated test suites covering the whole application stack - including UI (Web and Desktop applications), APIs, and Microservices.
• Develop and expand advanced test automation frameworks, modernizing them to align with DevOps principles and cloud-native architectures.
• Contribute to and review code in critical, core, and complex components and frameworks.
• Integrate automated tests into our Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, including defined Quality Gates.
• Build and execute a comprehensive automated testing strategy covering integration, regression, and end-to-end testing, with a strong emphasis on validating core financial applications and financial data accuracy.
• Conduct meticulous software testing, verification, and validation of changes, focusing on preventing defects and incidents that could impact financial operations or financial data integrity in production.
• Create and maintain detailed testing evidence, test reports, and documentation for all automated tests, ensuring full compliance with internal policies, external regulations, and audit requirements.
• Identify and promote the adoption of best practices in code health, testability, observability, and maintainability within the automation codebase and the applications being tested.

Required Skills:

• Expertise in standard software testing methodologies, such as unit, component, integration, end-to-end, code reviews, regression, penetration, performance, and design documentation.
• Ability to work effectively in diversified global teams and projects, collaborating across different time zones and cultures.
• Advanced troubleshooting skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex issues.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts and quality concerns clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Understanding of data security and privacy principles (data masking, encryption) and familiarity with regulatory compliance requirements in the financial domain.

Preferred Skills:

• Knowledge of performance testing concepts and tools (e.g., JMeter, LoadRunner) for high-volume transaction systems.
• Knowledge of current market trends in automation tools and frameworks, specifically in FinTech.

Required Experience:

• Minimum of 5+ years of SDET experience.
• Minimum of 5+ years of test automation engineering experience.
• 8+ years of experience in creating automation frameworks and tools to support test automation.
• 8+ years of experience in technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and quality engineering technologies.
• 8+ years of experience in one or more programming languages: JAVA, Python, TypeScript, with proven ability to build robust, maintainable automation frameworks and scripts for complex financial applications.
• Hands-on experience in developing automation scripts for UI using frameworks/tools like Selenium WebDriver, Appium, Playwright, or Cypress. Experience with BDD frameworks, such as Cucumber, is required. (Experience with tools like Tosca is also valuable, but focus on code-based automation skills.)
• Strong experience in API automation using tools/frameworks like Postman, SoapUI, or Rest Assured, specifically for testing APIs, web services, and microservices that interface with or extend the financial platform.
• Extensive experience with database testing and advanced SQL scripting for data validation, test data management, and verifying transaction outcomes within relational databases. Exposure to MySQL, SQL Server, and/or PostgreSQL is required.
• Experience in using build tools like Gradle or Maven and testing frameworks like Junit/TestNG.
• Experience in GitHub for version control and collaborative development of automation code.
• Experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (preferred experience with Cloud Build) to integrate automated tests and implement quality gates.
• Experience in using test management tools like Jira Xray, execution cycles, and defect tracking within a structured QA process.
• Experience in Jira for issue tracking and project management.
• Experience in designing and automating end-to-end user journeys that simulate real-world financial scenarios.

Preferred Experience:

• Public cloud experience, especially Google Cloud Platform, demonstrating the ability to leverage cloud services for test environment management, test execution, and scaling automation infrastructure securely.
• Exposure to Unix and Linux environments for managing test execution or environments.
• Exposure to AI tools like GenAI for potential applications in test case generation, test data creation, or test analysis.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), virtualization, and container orchestration (Kubernetes - K8s) related to setting up test environments.

Education:

• Bachelors or masters degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or a related field.

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Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law. If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation in using our website for a search or application, please contact our Employee Services Department at or .

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