QA Engineer - Only

Senior SDET

Charlotte, NC

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Essential Functions and Responsibilities:  

• Lead planning, estimation, development, and implementation of test automation frameworks and strategies
• Design and develop automated testing including creation, execution, and maintenance of automated scripts using industry best practices and standards
• Execute translation of manual testing scenarios to test automation coverage across multiple products
• Automate testing for use in a DevOps architecture
• Participate either as the sole QE resource on projects, or in an Agile scrum team
• Use of strong problem-solving skills to investigate and document defects and their respective resolutions
• Lead larger test automation efforts independently and act as a subject matter expert to team members on smaller efforts
• Effectively communicate status to stakeholders and proactively locate and address concerns
• Champion Agile best-practices, processes, and tools in support of DevOps processes with respect to developing testing automation
• Conform to department standards to comply with audit and regulatory policies
• Assist team members through cross-training on applications and systems, perform peer reviews, training and mentoring manual and junior QE members on automation testing
• Participate in the transformation of testing into a continuous and efficient end-to-end quality engineering function
• Aid in the evolution of more predictive and intelligent testing approaches based on automation
• Collaborate with other test engineers across products and projects to solve problems and deploy them, and mature automation testing practices

Qualifications Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM-related field (Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, etc.), or equivalent experience (6+ years)
• 6+ years as an SDET or a similar role, with a strong focus on automated testing using Java and Selenium.
• Expertise in designing and developing robust test automation frameworks using Java, Selenium, WebDriver, and related tools
• Hands-on experience testing applications deployed within an AWS cloud platform
• Experience with AWS services such as EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, SQS, SNS, API Gateway, and IAM
• Experience testing event-driven applications using Apache Kafka
• Experience in the following environments: Linux and AIX
• Experience with Collaboration Tools- Confluence, SharePoint
• Knowledge and Experience in Agile and Iterative development methodologies
• Proven ability to define, design, develop and maintain test automation frameworks and test cases for software applications and/or systems
• Ability to write complex SQL queries to validate data accuracy, troubleshoot issues, and verify backend processing
• Demonstrated experience in test planning and execution activities, test strategy, test data definition, data setup, test execution, defect reporting & communication of statmetrics
• Ability to recognize risks and errors in an application and employ automation testing to reduce them
• Understand, analyze, and develop complex automated tests including data sets, positive and negative functional scenarios to ensure product quality
• Understand project documents and project objectives including User Stories or Requirements to create and execute test cases; ability to work with stakeholders to provide input on testability of functional elements