QA Test Automation Engineer

Job Title:QA Test Automation Engineer
Location: Remote (Locals Preferred)
Experience: State experience required
Duration: 12 Months, extension possible based on needs and performance

Description
The QA Test Automation Engineer will test the highly available and flexible MyCity Careers application following industry best practices, comply with OTI security standards, work collaboratively under the direction of test leads, create and execute CI/CD pipelines for test automation deployment and modify and run automated tests used for QA Automation to test various applications built under the MyCity project

Scope Of Services
The successful candidate will serve as a QA Test Automation Engineer reporting to the Applications division.
Tasks:.
Work with project managers, business analysts, development teams, as well as the business customer to contribute to the process of gathering and reviewing requirements and ensuring that they are testable
Participate in requirements elicitation and generation
Review project documents and provide QA comments and sign off
Participate in development of the test approach based on established standards and the analysis of design documentation and requirements
Contribute to the design of the following deliverables: Test Strategy & Test Plan, Detailed Test Cases, Test Scripts, Traceability Matrix, test estimates, progress reports for test execution, various defect, and statistical data reports, etc.
Assist or execute manual functional testing where applicable, log and assign defects and keep track of the defect status
Work with developers and support teams to resolve defects and environment issues
Load and maintain requirements and test cases in Quality Center and/or other Test/SDLC management systems and/or Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) systems e.g. Azure DevOps.
Execute and track testing process using Azure DevOps.
Assist with development and execution of automated test scripts
Acquire and create test data and analyze/verify data
Report test results to management in timely manner
Assist the support team in activities related to application deployment where applicable
Participate in environment maintenance activities when QA services are required
Maintain up to date documentation and ensure that it is entered into appropriate repositories and systems of record

Participate in application troubleshooting and resolving production issues which may include but are not limited to:
Propose, prepare and execute test scenarios to reproduce production issues in non-production environments
Research problems, and propose, design, execute, and document test cases to identify potential issues and to prevent application outages and production issues

Mandatory Skills/Experience
At least 8 years of overall software testing experience
A minimum of 7 years of QA Automation with experience with programming languages/frameworks such as Java and Selenium Webdriver
3+ years of solid hands-on experience with Azure and/or AWS and knowledge of various cloud services
Understanding of API Gateways, proxies, and concepts of securing API endpoints (e.g., rate limiting, API tokens)
Experience with relational (e.g., L) and no-SQL (e.g., MongoDB) databases.
Experience with Git, Azure DevOps Pipelines or equivalent CI/CD tools
A team player with excellent communication skills, both written and oral, interpersonal, organizational skills, and problem-solving ability to work with customers and other non-technical end users on complex issues
Has a high degree of responsibility and can work as an independent contributor to accomplish program goals
Must have sound technical writing skills and be able to produce clear documentation

Desirable skills/experience:
Experience using Azure services for App Service, Logic Apps, Blob Storage, Data Lake, etc.
Knowledge of Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services
Experience with Azure Monitoring services
Experience with Microfocus Loadrunner