QA Test Automation Engineer

Title: QA Test Automation Engineer

Location: New York (Remote)

Duration: 12 Months

Work Hours: 35 hrs/week

Description:

• 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

Requirements:

• 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., PostgreSQL) 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