Java Software Automation Engineer (Local Only)

Position: Software Automation Engineer (Java with E-commerce Domain exp must)
Location: Ann Arbor, MI (4days Onsite/Week) Local Only

Technical & Professional Skills:

• Participate in developing and documenting User Stories by providing the test strategy and automation estimates
• Develop, document, and maintain the test strategy and test scenarios
• Build and execute unit, component, acceptance, integration, load, security, scalability, usability, and platform tests
• Conducts code reviews to ensure consistency, quality, and reusability of test automation artifacts
• Partner with the developers to ensure all areas of the application are fully tested and to find technical solutions for test automation
• Build and manage automated test suites and ensure execution through various environments, CI-CD pipelines and to be used by NOC teams.
• Regularly execute, maintain and upkeep automated test suites and analyze the results to identify the cause for failures.
• Create defects for issues found with appropriate details and ensure issues are resolved, including validation of the fix, and required automation updates
• Present appropriate results to sign off on software functionality for new Production releases
• Work with cross team and release management to manage dev, QA, and production release of the software
• Perform exploratory testing to understand the feature and how it is implemented, to find additional or unexClientted behaviour, and to refine and define additional test cases for the feature
• Contribute to the QA automation framework using industry standard tools and approaches
• Leverage and enhance coding standards and best practices for automated QA code
• Participate in analysing Major Incidents and Emergency Change controls to identify opportunities to automate software quality test cases to reduce or eliminate those

Qualifications

• Bachelor s degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 7 years of industry experience, preferably in an Agile development environment.
• Must have 5+ years of Java coding experience
• Experience with automated testing tools - Cucumber/Gherkin, Selenium WebDriver, Playwright and Java
• Experience in API automation testing using JAVA Springboot2, Rest Assured, GraphQL or Postman.
• Experience with JMS driven messaging protocols like AMQ, RabbitMQ, Kafka, etc.
• Knowledge of MS Entity Framework/Spring JDBC
• Experience with Service oriented architecture.
• Knowledge working with CI/CD processes and tools - preferably Jenkins/JenkinsX.
• MUST HAVE Experience with source control versioning tools and processes Git / Stash.
• Experience in writing SQL queries for test data preparation as well as data validation.
• NICE TO HAVE experience with querying Couchbase database.
• Experience working with databases and various data formats and related technologies for testing. SQL Server and SQL Server Management Studio is a plus
• Experience with Splunk analytics for validating technical fixes and updates in the app code/config.
• Experience with defect tracking tools (JIRA)
• Experience in manual testing.
• POS system experience is a plus
• Nice to have experience with payment gateways and payment terminals
• Nice to have experience with Kubernetes and container-based application deployment and operations
• Ability to work independently with an aptitude for detailed work and follow-up activities.
• Ability to multitask in a fast-paced agile work environment
• Experience in heavy traffic eCommerce applications.