Senior Automation QA- Hybrid,In Person Interview

***In Person Interview (Face to Face Interview)*** Very long term project ***Hybrid (3days per week Onsite at Austin-TX ***need 3 Professional  references*** Local to TX Candidates only***

Core Responsibilities

• Understands business objectives and problems, identifies alternative solutions, performs studies and cost/benefit analysis of alternatives.
• Analyzes user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate processing or to improve existing computer system.
• Confers with personnel of organizational units involved to analyze current operational procedures, identify problems, and learn specific input and output requirements, such as forms of data input, how data is to be summarized, and formats for reports.
• Writes detailed description of user needs, program functions, and steps required to develop or modify computer program.
• Reviews computer system capabilities, specifications, and scheduling limitations to determine if requested program or program change is possible within existing system.

QA Engineering and Automation Testing

Skilled QA Engineer / Automation Tester with deep expertise in Selenium-based functional automation testing. This role requires a strong foundation in core testing principles, hands-on automation framework development, and the ability to ensure high-quality software delivery through structured, scalable, and reliable test solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain robust automated test scripts using Selenium.
• Build and enhance automation frameworks (data-driven, hybrid, or BDD).
• Perform functional, regression, integration, and system testing.
• Analyze business requirements and create comprehensive test scenarios and test cases.
• Collaborate with developers, product owners, and architects to clarify requirements.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies (sprint planning, grooming, retrospectives).
• Perform API testing (manual and automated).
• Conduct defect tracking, root cause analysis, and impact assessment.
• Ensure CI/CD pipeline integration of automation suites.
• Provide test coverage analysis and quality metrics reporting.

Skills/Requirements

• Experience in Quality Assurance and testing Required 7
  
• Strong hands-on expertise in Selenium WebDriver and other automation tools Required 7
  
• Experience with Java (preferred) or C#/Python for automation scripting. Required 7
  
• Experience building and maintaining automation frameworks from scratch. Required 7
  
• Strong understanding of functional testing principles. Required 7
  
• Experience with: TestNG / JUnit / NUnit, Maven / Gradle, Git Required 7
  
• Experience integrating automation with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions). Required 7
  
• Experience with API testing tools (Postman, RestAssured, etc.). Required 7
  
• Strong SQL knowledge for backend validation. Required 7
  
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments. Required 6
  
• Strong understanding of: Test planning and strategy, Test case design techniques (boundary value, equivalence partitioning), Regression strategy, Risk-based testing Required 6
  
• Ability to independently own testing for a feature/module. Required 6
  
• Strong defect lifecycle management experience. Required 6
  
• Ability to think from an end-user perspective. Required 6
  
• Experience with BDD frameworks (Cucumber, SpecFlow). Preferred 7
  
• Experience with Selenium Grid / parallel execution. Preferred 7
  
• Experience testing cloud-based applications (Azure/AWS). Preferred 7
  
• Experience with performance testing tools (JMeter). Preferred 7
  
• Experience with containerization (Docker). Preferred 5
  
• Exposure to DevOps practices and shift-left testing. Preferred 5
  
• Experience in microservices architecture testing. Preferred 5
  
• Knowledge of security testing basics. Preferred 5