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Greetings from People First!!!

We are hiring for the position of Automation Tester for one of a US Product based company.

Location: Chennai

Skills: Automation Testing, Postman, Cypress, API Testing.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer science or related field preferred
• 5+ years of experience writing and executing detailed test cases, test plans and test design documents
• 2+ years of hands-on experience implementing an automation framework of front-end, back-end, and REST API services\applications.
• Experience in leading test automation practices for Agile and DevOps teams across an agile environment.
• Experience and strong understanding of automation tools such as Selenium Web driver, SoapUI, Client UFT, and JMeter.
• Hands-on experience in unit test frameworks like NUnit/ MS Test.
• Experience with tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Test Rails to log bugs and test results.
• Working knowledge and experience of Agile with Scrum methodology.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Team player as well as a self-starter who needs little supervision. Able to use independent judgment to plan, prioritize and organize a diversified workload.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and foster a team-oriented, results-driven culture.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
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Knowledge, Skills, and Competencies:

• Ability to create test plans from business requirements and technical specifications.

• Strong Knowledge of Selenium WebDriver, JavaScript, Postman, Web Services, and Rest services.

• Demonstration work experience in API Testing using Postman.

• Strong Knowledge of Zephyr Scale in Jira for UI testing.

• Advanced technical QA experience.

• Knowledge of best practices, procedures and software development lifecycle.

• Solid understanding of the software development life cycle (SDLC) and associated methodologies.

• Solid understanding of SQL/SQL queries and automated testing, preferred.

• Ability to create test plans from business requirements or technical specifications.

• Strong skills that promote and facilitate the performance of project team members.

• Prioritizes and uses time efficiently; develops realistic action plans

• Highly flexible and able to make quick assessments of needs and priorities.

• Initiative to recognize and resolve problems.

• Familiarity with Automation Testing.

• Excellent communication skills and experience communicating with a variety of staff levels.

• Experience communicating plans and reporting status to both team, executive management and pertinent stakeholders.

• Advanced Skills in MS Office applications including Excel, Word, and Outlook.

• Regular attendance is required.

Job description :

 8+ year of QA Automation Lead experience

 Experience of preparing test automation solution, designing automation framework,

designing test strategy / test plan

 Experience in automation script development and optimization

 Recommend new tools, techniques and methodologies based on the industry trend and

improve productivity

 Experience in working with Product teams to strategize and align the long term solution for

test automation,

 Experience in designing framework for functional automation, performance testing, load,

security and penetration testing

 Experience in designing automation strategy for regression testing based on complexity and

reusability

 Experience leading the team and managing the deliverables on testing and maintaining Web

Applications and mobile applications is a MUST

 MUST be hands-on to play a crucial part in automating the test scenarios covering all the

modules/functionalities of the product

 Hands-on experience in contributing to building the CO pipeline with QA automation

framework & processes incorporated

 Hands-on / Familiar with Web driver IO, Java Script / Type Script, Selenium, JUnit, TestNG,

Cucumber, JMeter, Appium, RDBMS & AWS Services

 Ability to drive the involvement of the QA team at a very early stage of each enhancement

for the product evolution.

 Experience with API testing, Load/Performance testing, Cross browser testing

 Experience building defects analysis reports and analytics for the team members, leadership

team to make informed decisions

Preferred qualifications:

 Review requirements/specifications and create Automation test strategy and plans.

 Perform new functionality and regression tests

 Test APIs, user interfaces, web services, and web applications in multiple browsers and

devices

 Define automation coding standards and actively perform code reviews

 Perform data validation to ensure data from data source is completely and correctly

displayed on UI

 Debug and troubleshoot complex issues

 Expertise in Java especially for test automation using APIs and UI

 Expertise in high volume user loads and throughput environments

 Strong troubleshooting abilities and narrowing down the root cause

 Create clearly written defect reports to enable quick reproduction and resolution to issues

 Implement automation for functional and integration testcases.

 Prioritize QA requests and manage your work queue taking into consideration team goals

and product milestones

 Assist in on-going process improvement efforts related to quality

 Good knowledge of QA methodologies and processes

 Experience with automated testing tools and frameworks: Web driver IO, Selenium+TestNG,

Junit, Cucumber, JMeter / POST Man, Jenkins

 Knowledge of relational databases, non-relational databases, SQL

 Knowledge of GIT.

 Experience with both Linux/Unix and Windows environments

 Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

 Ability to think beyond assigned task, and be a good team player

 Passion for testing and quality

 Familiarity with AWS technologies

Responsibilities

• Deliver end to end quality and automation independently using agile methodologies
• Translate deep insight of architecture, product, specifications into a robust test plan covering all aspects of testing including functional, reliancy, performance, load, scalability and security. 
• Evaluate & apply the latest tools, techniques and research insights to drive improvements into a world-class data analytics engine
• Develop robust test automation that is reliable and maintainable and provides accurate assessment of product quality
• Integrate test automation scripts into build system for repeatable execution
• Collaborate with other engineering and customer success functions to simulate customer data and usage patterns  to execute test runs, identify and  fix customer issues and make sure that customers get highly reliable, reliant and optimized Dremio experience 
• Analyze and debug customer issues in customer environments.
• Actively participate in code and design reviews to maintain exceptional quality and deepen your understanding of the system architecture and implementation

Basic Requirements

• B.Tech/M.Tech/Equivalent in Computer Science or a related technical field 
• 8+ years of QA/automation engineering experience on large scale distributed systems
• Deep understanding in Authentication, Single Sign-on and Identity Management systems like AWS IAM, Azure AD, Ping, Okta and Auth0
• Hands on experience in testing Role based Access Control Authorization Model in Cloud and Database Systems
• Proficiency in any of Java/C++/Python/Go and automation frameworks
• Hands on experience in integration of automation using CI/CD tools like Jenkins
• Experience in planning and executing QA/Automation tasks to completion and taking ownership of quality during a set of sprints.
• Experience in designing, implementing, executing and analyzing automated  tests for complex, production system software.
• Experience in analyzing deep product issues and following issue resolution 
• Hands on experience of working projects on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform 
• Understanding of distributed file systems like S3 or ADLS or HDFS and HIVE
• Hands on experience with various Backend/UI automation frameworks and tools

• Ability to create reusable components to automate repeatable, manual activities

• Ability to write technical reports and summary and present to leadership team
• Passion for learning and delivering using latest technologies
• Excellent communication skills and affinity for collaboration and teamwork
• Passion and ability to work in a fast paced and agile development environment.

Preferred Qualification 

• Hands on experience of multi-threaded and asynchronous programming models
• Hands on experience in Data Lake and Catalog systems

• Create, maintain, and execute automated test cases for APIs and web services
• Discover, analyze, and document defects in our Jira system
• Create and maintain automation frameworks using Object Oriented concepts and basic design patterns
• Create, maintain, and execute test scripts, analyze and communicate test results using Appium and Selenium
• Create API and web services automated tests using Java, Postman, SOAP UI, Jmeter, REST assured, or similar tools
• Mentor QA resources in test automation
• Provide the Team Lead with effort estimates and progress reports

Requirements

• Minimum 7 years of experience with backend automation with technologies like RESTful APIs, Web Services Java, Postman, SOAP UI, Jmeter, REST assured
• Minimum 7 years of experience with Java and Core Java
• Minimum 7 years of experience in QA
• Experience with tools such as Appium, Selenium, and/or XCUI test
• Experience using Git and CI tools such as Jenkins
• Experience with mobile app testing on iOS and Android
• Experience with testing web apps/websites
• Great communication skills
• Ability to contribute to improving QA best practices

Currently, we are looking for the below positions:

• Mobile QA automation engineers
• Expertise in Selenium, Appium, API testing
• Java language is preferred
• Would be expected to do manual testing as part of their role

• Must have knowledge of Website testing and API testing
• Must have knowledge of Linux and SQL
• Should have hands on automation experience with Selenium and developed multiple frameworks
• Should have worked on Robot Framework and can develop automation framework from scratch
• Must have worked on cloud providers such as BrowserStack, SauceLabs, PCloudy, etc.
• Must have worked on running tests parallely on multiple browser instance
• Should knowledge of at least one interpreted programming language like Python OR Java
• Should have worked on CI/CD tool such as Jenkins, CircleCI, TravisCI, TeamCity

• Responsible for Verification Strategy, Infrastructure, Planning and Execution (Manual and Automation)
• Participate in requirements, architecture, and design reviews to come up with an appropriate test strategy.
• Author Review & execute automated tests.
• Maintenance of Automation Test Cases / Frameworks
• Excellent communication skills, ability to quickly make and influence technical decisions as part of the product development, and drive open issues to a successful closure
• Drive continuous integration by development and automated execution of verification & validation tests.
• Provide estimates of detailed level project-related verification activities.
• Understand and manage integration points with other systems that interface with your applications

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or master’s degree in Software Engineering or Information Science/Technology or a related field with 4-8 years experience.
• 4+ years of experience in testing enterprise and web applications.
• Experience with object-oriented programming languages like Java.
• 4+ years of experience in working with automated tools like Selenium.
• Experience in developing different automation framework architecture, API automated tools
• Hands-on in javascript.
• Experience in writing complex SQL queries and PL/SQL knowledge.
• Familiarity with SCRUM/AGILE software development lifecycle (requirements, design, code, test)
• Ability to work with cross-functional and remote teams.

Good to Have

• Azure Cloud Dev ops experience
• Working experience on source control systems (e.g. Git)