Test Automation Engineer

Domain: - Investment Banking or Electronic Trading is mandatory

• Develop (Python/Py test) automation tests in all components (e.g. API testing, client-server testing, E2E testing etc.) to meet product requirements and customer usages
• Hands-On experience in Python
• Proficiency in test automation frameworks and tools such as Selenium, Cucumber.
• Experience working in a Microsoft Windows and Linux environment
• Experience using Postman and automated API testing
• Experience designing & executing load/stress and performance testing
• Experience using test cases & test execution management tools and issues management tools (e.g Jira), and development environments (like Visual Studio, IntelliJ, or Eclipse). 

About Primathon: Job Description:

As a Quality Assurance Engineer at Primathon, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the quality and reliability of our software products. You will be responsible for creating and implementing test strategies, conducting both manual and automated testing, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to maintain the highest standard of software quality.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with development and product teams to understand project requirements and design comprehensive test plans.
• Develop and execute test cases, both manual and automated, to ensure the quality of web applications, mobile apps, and APIs.
• Utilize Selenium automation for web application testing, including regression testing and test suite maintenance.
• Implement API automation testing, focusing on functionality, performance, and security.
• Perform load testing to identify system bottlenecks and ensure optimal application
• performance.
• Identify and report software defects with clear and concise documentation.
• Work closely with developers to troubleshoot issues and verify bug fixes.
• Continuously improve testing processes and methodologies.
• Participate in the review and analysis of user stories and software requirements.
• Provide timely and detailed test reports to project stakeholders.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field preferred.
• 3+ years of experience as a Quality Assurance Engineer in a software development environment.
• Proficiency in Selenium automation for web application testing.
• Strong experience with API automation testing.
• Hands-on experience with load testing tools and methodologies.
• Solid background in manual testing techniques and methodologies.
• Excellent communication and written skills for effective collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Detail-oriented with strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Proven ability to work in an Agile/Scrum development environment.
• ISTQB or similar certification is a plus.

Senior QA Engineer shall be responsible understanding of the domain and using that understanding to enhance work output in terms of functionality of software applications. This Role needs to assess and diagnose issues during the requirement gathering process; Determine preliminary solutions to identified issues and gaps; Plan test schedules and strategies in accordance with project delivery dates. Must work towards continuously aligning test activities to prioritized requirements stack/product backlogs and JIT (just in time) model storms. Develop & execute test cases in alignment to test strategy

Automation QA

• Have worked on automation using tools like Selenium WebDriver or Appium.
• Experience in testing banking applications – like core banking systems, electronic banking apps, payment services
• Experience working on applications like Finacle, Fiserve DNA will be a plus.
• Testing Experience with good understanding of Software Test Lifecycle including Test Cases Design, Test Data Setup, Defect Management, Test log, Test results, Test Traceability Matrix
• Understand functional requirements and prepare test scenarios and test cases for multiple projects.
• Perform Desktop, Web, API - functional, regression, smoke, exploratory testing & end to end testing.
• Demonstrated experience working within an Agile team and using project management tool like JIRA or similar tools
• Excellent communication to interact with the onshore counterparts, business teams and team members

• Java automation
• Automation Testing
• BDD/Cucumber framework for UI and RestAPI testing using Maven
• Responsible for End to end CI/CD setup and maintenance.
• Designing the CI/CD architecture & building pipelines
• Support in defining the Three-tier architecture.
• Should have good knowledge in Testing Strategies
• Handle the Monolith and modern application.

Secondary:

• To lead DevOps activities in the team.
• Lead the upskill program within the team
• Train the team on the required technologies
• Coordination with different IT stakeholders as and when needed
• Suggestion and Implementation of further toolchains towards DevOps and GitOps
• Responsible to train the peer colleagues

Skills:

• Good hands-on experience in Java
• Automation Testing tools like selenium, LeanFT, etc.
• Should have implemented BDD/Cucumber framework for UI and RestAPI testing.
• Should have working experience with build management tools like Maven, Gradle, Ant, etc.
• Responsible for End to end CI/CD setup and maintenance.
• Should have written the pipeline in Jenkins e.g. scripted pipelines.
• Support in defining the Three-tier architecture.
• Should have good knowledge in Testing Strategies
• Handle the Monolith and modern application.
• Should have executed automation tests using Docker containers (selenium as the grid)
• Knowledge of containerization
• Hands-on Kubernetes experience would b
• Expert knowledge of Source Control Systems, build & integration tools (e.g., GIT, Jenkins & Maven).
• Hands-on experience with designing the CI/CD architecture & building pipelines (on On-prem, Cloud & Hybrid infrastructure services).

Good to have:

• Experience with monitoring tools like Prometheus-Grafana & Dynatrace.
• Experience with log management tools (e.g. ELK/EFK stack, Azure monitor, or similar).
• Experience with Infrastructure as a Service / Cloud computing (preferably Azure).
• Experience with Open Liberty, JBoss, etc.
• Hands-on experience with multiple database products like IBM DB2, PostgreSQL, etc.
• Writing automation scripts in Unix shell, Perl, etc. would be preferred
• Application development/automation experience using Python would an added advantage
• Brownie points for having:

Certifications:

• Certified DevOps engineer
• Azure Admin / Solution Architect
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

• Have a high bar for the quality of the product.
• Creative, independent, self-motivated, and willing to learn new technology.
• Possess a good understanding of QA methodologies and processes.
• Strong test planning ability with an understanding of enterprise storage workflows.
• Ability to take up a variety of roles in a startup environment.
• Excellent troubleshooting abilities spanning multiple software and hardware components (such as switches, storage systems, kernels).
• Good knowledge of storage stack, file system internals, and testing tools like fio, fsct, vdbench, dd, specFs etc.
• Strong knowledge of one or more storage protocols like NFS, iSCSI, CIFS, SMB, S3.
• Prior experience of testing storage filers using NFS/SMB/CIFS/S3 is a big plus.
• Experience with distributed systems (databases, storage, map-reduce frameworks, etc.).
• Good understanding of storage performance characteristics.
• Prior work experience in testing enterprise storage products is a must.
• Prior experience of programming, preferably in Go, Python, bash.
• Knowledge of ESXi, HyperV, KVM is a plus.