Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

Software QA Automation Engineer






- 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
- Conducts code reviews to ensure consistency, quality, and reusability of test automation artifacts
- Partner with the 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 to be used 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






Qualifications


- 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
- 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, and etc.
- Knowledge of MS Entity Framework/Spring JDBC
- Experience with Service oriented architecture.
- Knowledge working with CI/CD processes and tools - preferably Jenkins/JenkinsX.
- MUST HAVE Experience with source control versioning tools and processes – Git / Stash.
- Experience in writing SQL queries for test data preparation as well as data validation.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.