QA Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Act as QA lead on a wide variety of projects.
• Lead analysis for the purposes of developing test cases and test data for search intense back-end data applications in such a way that defects are uncovered as early as possible.
• Clearly define test plans, scenarios, scripts, and procedures.
• Perform hands-on manual testing while scripting automated tests to ensure application functionality, performance and security.
• Identify and write clean, high-quality automation scripts that test product UI and backend functionality.
• Continuously develop and socialize best practices for the design and development of robust and easily maintainable QA Automation Suites.
• Serve as a liaison to business analyst and product owner, providing feedback on application readiness for migrations.
• Be involved in all phases of the agile software development lifecycle.
• Conduct various tests for systems integration, UI, applications, databases, API.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (developers, product managers, QA Team, DevOps, DBA) to formulate validation plan and automation enhancements.
• Take part in brainstorms to come up with new ideas and designs that improve existing features.

Experience Required: 1 to 5 years of professional experience in Software Quality Assurance and Test Automation

Technical Expertise:

• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming.
• Good knowledge of any programming language like JAVA, C# or Python.
• Experience with Web/UI automation tool – Selenium Webdriver with C# or Java.
• Experience in API & performance testing using Apache JMeter.
• Experience with Data Validation testing.
• Knack for writing clean, readable, and easily maintainable QA automation workflows.
• Experience in testing web services such as RESTful API
• Proficient in SQL and relational database concepts and formats such as XML and JSON with experience in testing non-GUI applications 
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tool and familiarity with Continuous Integration atmosphere would be a plus.
• Knowledge of AWS services would be a strong plus point.

Skills and Knowledge:

• Passion to work and grow as a QA automation Engineer.
• Ability to analyze acceptance criteria and discuss scenarios with team with a goal of identifying possible issues upfront even before the feature is developed.
• Ability to build automated test scripts, plan tests and strategies according to the project.
• Thorough and disciplined, ability to analyze a problem and weight severity of the issue.
• Dedicated worker skilled at collaborating in a team setting
• Proven excellent problem-solving and analytic skills.
• Demonstrated excellent communication skills.
• Familiarity with Agile workflow as well as Atlassian Jira and Confluence.

Education Level: Bachelor’s in Computer Science, or related field or equivalent experience.

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