Skills
qatestsqlapi
Job Description
Senior QA Analyst opportunity on a long term contract or contract to hire basis with our financial services client based in the Minneapolis, MN area.
Work environment: in-office 1-2 days/week
Client's work authorization requirements: holder
Skills/Responsibility areas:
- 5+ years in QA for SOAP and/or REST API architecture.
- API/service testing and automation experience using an industry tool (e.g. SOAP UI, Postman, etc.)
- Extensive experience with Groovy Scripting for creating test scripts
- Understanding of existing automation and taking it forward
- Writing assertions and conditional statements
- Parameterizing the tests and providing request parameters via a file
- Verifying/comparing API output with Stored Proc output or a static file
- Understand data mappings in mapping documents and ask questions if there are any
- Ability to use ReadyAPI (preferred) or any other API automation tool will be an advantage
- Heavy SQL experience with MS SQL Server and Oracle in a complex enterprise environment (multiple DBs)
- Effective interpersonal skills and experience in working directly with business SMEs and Data Architects
- Articulate problem statements and discuss/triage into solution along with developers
- Engage and discuss with data architects/developers/SMEs, ask questions and get the information required
- Quick learner and ready to take new challenges.
Additional Requirements:
- Excellent communication skills (verbal and written). Excellent collaboration skills, building relationships with the business and development team
- Excellent analytical skills, must be able to dig deep and understand stand the strategy
- Lead the QA efforts for planning, writing test cases and test execution along with status reports
- Coordinate/collaborate automation solutions
- Experience in GIT and DevOps