Test Automation – Quality Engineer

The Test Automation Engineer will participate in design, planning, execution, monitoring, and improving testing processes for various feature enhancements. The Test Automation Engineer will be challenged to create a sustainable test automation framework for our Pricefx integrations that support complex business & customer transactions each day while meeting the highest standards of availability, stability and performance.

Responsibilities:

·       Subject Matter Expert (SME) on software testing requirements/architecture, testing framework, automation framework, automation tools and technologies.

·       Provides leadership in QA automation for test projects and mentors and advises test engineers on automated process, architecture, tools and test case design.

·       Helps develop testing strategies that cover all system components

·       Understands the various input sources and output destinations that contribute to a successful application

·       Identifies and implements a sustainable test automation framework

·       Designs automated tests, troubleshoot issues, and implements scalable test automation framework and solutions.

·       Manages automated testing artifacts to ensure proper reuse, versioning, backups, organization and retention.

·       Integrates test automation suites into a continuous integration/continuous deployment system

·       Follows best practices in line with the latest industry standards in automation development, maintenance and management of the test automation artifacts.

·       Defines and governs testing standards and quality assurance tasks

·       Constantly evaluates test automation strategy and approach to identify areas of improvement (i.e. test automation frameworks, dynamic data collection methodologies, coding standards, components and object repository methods, etc.)

·       Establishes goals and objectives for appropriate testing cycles

·       Define and maintain test system configurations and test data

·       Create both manual and automated test scripts for complex integrated systems as part of an agile scrum sprint team

·       Execute both manual and automated test scripts as part of an agile scrum sprint team

·       Convert existing manual test scripts into automated scripts

·       Implements test processes on projects, writes test plans, procedures and scripts, and analyzes test results

·       Produce reports and documentation for all automated testing efforts, results, activities, data, logging and tracking

·       Collaborate in an integrated agile software development team providing consistent communication and feedback amongst developers, testers, and product owners

·       Mentor and enrich other QA engineers on the sprint team

Preferred Qualifications:

·       5 years of experience with testing tools or 3 years of experience with testing frameworks

·       5 years of experience running test suites on web services

·       5 years of experience running test suites on web applications

·       5 years of experience with creating test automation suites

·       2 years of experience writing SQL queries

·       2 years of experience with automated build

·       Deep knowledge of UI automation, web services automation and performance / load testing

·       Applied Knowledge in Agile Testing  Methodologies including ATDD (Cucumber / Gherkin)

·       Familiarity with current software design methodologies including agile (scrum) development process

·       Experience using cloud based infrastructure for testing is desirable

·       Demonstrable experience in testing performance, scalability, and maintainability

·       Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related disciplines; extensive, directly-related experience may be considered in-lieu of degree(s)

·       Experience with a Microsoft / Sitecore stack a plus

Personal Characteristics: 

·       Self-motivated and passionate in building a world-class product

·       Ability to collaborate and communicate complex, technical concepts across all levels of the organization.

·       Ability to work independently and as a team member.

·       Able to prioritize and execute tasks in a dynamic, fast-paced environment

·       Strong speaking, writing, collaboration and follow-up skills.

·       Passion for continuous process and technology improvement

·       Ability to understand the goals of an organization and suggest a test architecture

·       Able to suggest alternative approaches and benefits of the same

·       Ability to suggest improvements to process and technology areas for a test system

·       Ability to define the framework for testing.

·       Ability to analyze risks and provide mitigation plans.

·       Ability to analyze test requirements and provide a solution in terms of test approach and design, suggested tools etc.

·       Ability to design the entire test life cycle processes.

·       Capability to lead and co-ordinate a team of analysts for testing engagements

·       Software development skills

·       In touch with new methodologies and tools for software testing

·       Ability to design, plan and execute and monitor a testing process