Test Automation Engineer

Remote

Rate- 60/hr

Exp- 7+ yrs

Visa : USA

Overview

The Test Automation Engineer will participate in design, planning, execution, monitoring, and improving testing processes for various feature enhancements. The Test Automation Engineer will be challenged to create a sustainable test automation framework for our Pricefx integrations that support complex business & customer transactions each day while meeting the highest standards of availability, stability and performance.

Responsibilities:

• Subject Matter Expert (SME) on software testing requirements/architecture, testing framework, automation framework, automation tools and technologies.
• Provides leadership in QA automation for test projects and mentors and advises test engineers on automated process, architecture, tools and test case design.
• Helps develop testing strategies that cover all system components
• Understands the various input sources and output destinations that contribute to a successful application
• Identifies and implements a sustainable test automation framework
• Designs automated tests, troubleshoot issues, and implements scalable test automation framework and solutions.
• Manages automated testing artifacts to ensure proper reuse, versioning, backups, organization and retention.
• Integrates test automation suites into a continuous integration/continuous deployment system
• Follows best practices in line with the latest industry standards in automation development, maintenance and management of the test automation artifacts.
• Defines and governs testing standards and quality assurance tasks
• Constantly evaluates test automation strategy and approach to identify areas of improvement (i.e. test automation frameworks, dynamic data collection methodologies, coding standards, components and object repository methods, etc.)
• Establishes goals and objectives for appropriate testing cycles
• Define and maintain test system configurations and test data
• Create both manual and automated test scripts for complex integrated systems as part of an agile scrum sprint team
• Execute both manual and automated test scripts as part of an agile scrum sprint team
• Convert existing manual test scripts into automated scripts
• Implements test processes on projects, writes test plans, procedures and scripts, and analyzes test results
• Produce reports and documentation for all automated testing efforts, results, activities, data, logging and tracking
• Collaborate in an integrated agile software development team providing consistent communication and feedback amongst developers, testers, and product owners
• Mentor and enrich other QA engineers on the sprint team

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5 years of experience with testing tools or 3 years of experience with testing frameworks
• 5 years of experience running test suites on web services
• 5 years of experience running test suites on web applications
• 5 years of experience with creating test automation suites
• 2 years of experience writing SQL queries
• 2 years of experience with automated build
• Deep knowledge of UI automation, web services automation and performance / load testing
• Applied Knowledge in Agile Testing Methodologies including ATDD (Cucumber / Gherkin)
• Familiarity with current software design methodologies including agile (scrum) development process
• Experience using cloud based infrastructure for testing is desirable
• Demonstrable experience in testing performance, scalability, and maintainability
• Bachelor s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related disciplines; extensive, directly-related experience may be considered in-lieu of degree(s)
• Experience with a Microsoft / Sitecore stack a plus

Personal Characteristics:

• Self-motivated and passionate in building a world-class product
• Ability to collaborate and communicate complex, technical concepts across all levels of the organization.
• Ability to work independently and as a team member.
• Able to prioritize and execute tasks in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
• Strong speaking, writing, collaboration and follow-up skills.
• Passion for continuous process and technology improvement
• Ability to understand the goals of an organization and suggest a test architecture
• Able to suggest alternative approaches and benefits of the same
• Ability to suggest improvements to process and technology areas for a test system
• Ability to define the framework for testing.
• Ability to analyze risks and provide mitigation plans.
• Ability to analyze test requirements and provide a solution in terms of test approach and design, suggested tools etc.
• Ability to design the entire test life cycle processes.
• Capability to lead and co-ordinate a team of analysts for testing engagements
• Software development skills
• In touch with new methodologies and tools for software testing
• Ability to design, plan and execute and monitor a testing process

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