Software Automation Engineer

Role: Software Automation Engineer

Location: Ann Arbor, MI – need locals only – in person interview

W2 only 

Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled professional to join our team. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in software automation, with a focus on developing and maintaining test strategies and automated test suites. This role requires a collaborative approach to work closely with developers, ensuring comprehensive testing across all application areas and providing technical solutions for test automation.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in developing and documenting User Stories by providing the test strategy and automation estimates.
• Develop, document, and maintain the test strategy and test scenarios.
• Build and execute unit, component, acceptance, integration, load, security, scalability, usability, and platform tests.
• Conduct code reviews to ensure consistency, quality, and reusability of test automation artifacts.
• Partner with developers to ensure all areas of the application are fully tested and to find technical solutions for test automation.
• Build and manage automated test suites and ensure execution through various environments, CI-CD pipelines, and usage by NOC teams.
• Regularly execute, maintain, and upkeep automated test suites and analyze the results to identify the cause for failures.
• Create defects for issues found with appropriate details and ensure issues are resolved, including validation of the fix and required automation updates.
• Present appropriate results to sign off on software functionality for new Production releases.
• Work with cross-team and release management to manage dev, QA, and production release of the software.
• Perform exploratory testing to understand the feature and how it is implemented, to find additional or unexpected behavior, and to refine and define additional test cases for the feature.
• Contribute to the QA automation framework using industry-standard tools and approaches.
• Leverage and enhance coding standards and best practices for automated QA code.
• Participate in analyzing Major Incidents and Emergency Change controls to identify opportunities to automate software quality test cases to reduce or eliminate those.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 7 years of industry experience, preferably in an Agile development environment.
• Must have 5 years of Java coding experience.

Required Skills:

• Experience with automated testing tools - Cucumber/Gherkin, Selenium Webdriver, Playwright, and Java.
• Experience in API automation testing using JAVA Springboot2, RestAssured, GraphQL, or Postman.
• Experience with JMS driven messaging protocols like AMQ, RabbitMQ, Kafka, etc.
• Knowledge of MS Entity Framework/Spring JDBC.
• Experience with Service-oriented architecture.
• Knowledge working with CI/CD processes and tools - preferably Jenkins/JenkinsX.
• Experience with source control versioning tools and processes – Git / Stash.
• Experience in writing SQL queries for test data preparation as well as data validation.
• Experience with Splunk analytics for validating technical fixes and updates in the app code/config.
• Experience with defect tracking tools (JIRA).
• Experience in manual testing.

Preferred Skills:

• NICE TO HAVE – experience with querying Couchbase database.
• Experience working with databases and various data formats and related technologies for testing. SQL Server and SQL Server Management Studio is a plus.
• POS system experience is a plus.
• Nice to have experience with payment gateways and payment terminals.
• Nice to have experience with Kubernetes and container-based application deployment and operations.
• Ability to work independently with an aptitude for detailed work and follow-up activities.
• Ability to multitask in a fast-paced agile work environment.
• Experience in heavy traffic eCommerce applications.

Benefits:

We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, retirement plans, and opportunities for professional development. Join our team and contribute to exciting projects in a dynamic and collaborative environment.