Test Automation Engineer

The ideal candidate must have -

• At least 2 years of practical experience in defining, developing, maintaining and executing test cases
• Prior experience dealing with full product development lifecycles and multiple releases
• Experience of working with Web, Mobile, and API Testing
• Basic understanding of good programming practices, architecture and design patterns
• Knowledge of Performance & Security Testing
• Solid analytical & problem-solving skills and experience of working in Agile process management methodology
• Should be excellent at communication, be able to explain ideas clearly.
• Must be extremely proactive and self-starter.
• Good knowledge of test automation tools like PyTest, Mocha, Cypress or comparable is a big plus.

• Test current products and identifying deficiencies
• Suggest solutions to identified product problems 
• Investigate product quality in order to make improvements to achieve better customer satisfaction
• Plan, create and manage the overall Quality Planning strategy
• Collaborate with the Product Development team to ensure consistent project execution
• Identify quality assurance process bottleneck and suggest actions for improvement 
• Oversee continuous improvement projects 
• Collect quality data 
• Identify key KPIs for product quality

You will work on: 

We help many of our clients to deploy their applications in a continuous manner and with confidence – by meaningful test automation. You will have the opportunity to build frameworks for Integration, End to End or even generative tests for cloud-native applications. 

What you will do (Responsibilities):

• Collaborate with Developers and Architects of products to build test automation scripts
• Improve the performance of non-functional automation by parallelizing test executions
• Test planning and management, defect lifecycle, traceability matrix and security breaking testing 

What you bring (Skills):

• Experience in testing micro-service oriented and cloud-native applications with knowledge of tools like HTTP, Curl, Postman, Fiddler, Swagger 
• Experience coding in one of Java/Python/C#
• Working Knowledge of Linux Systems and Shell based scripting 
• Test automation coding best practices – like reusable and modular test code, mocking, stubbing and writing multi-thread safe tests, using platforms like Junit or TestNG 
• UI based testing using Selenium or alike and basic understanding of chrome developer tools

Great if you know (Skills):

• CI exposure to Jenkins, Gitlab CI or any other
• Exposure to BDD style testing frameworks like cucumber
• Understanding of Property based testing (PBT) using tools such as QuickCheck
• Specification driven testing frameworks like Spock, Spek or Kotlin Test
• Big Data migration testing, validation and reporting
• Exposure to load, stress or spike testing using JMeter or Gatling
• Security Testing, Disaster Recovery or Resilience testing for modern distributed applications

 
Advantage Cognologix:

• Higher degree of autonomy, startup culture & small teams
• Opportunities to become expert in emerging technologies
• Remote working options for the right maturity level
• Competitive salary & family benefits
• Performance based career advancement

About Cognologix:

Cognologix helps companies disrupt by reimagining their business models and innovate like a Startup. We are at the forefront of digital disruption and take a business first approach to help meet our client’s strategic goals.

We are automation driven organization helping our clients to deliver their next generation of products with confidence

Benefits Working With Us:

• Health & Wellbeing
• Learn & Grow
• Evangelize 
• Celebrate Achievements
• Financial Wellbeing
• Medical and Accidental cover.
• Flexible Working Hours.
• Sports Club & much more.

About the Role

We are looking for a technically curious, Software Development Engineer in Test to develop core test automation infrastructure to make testing cycles efficient.In this role, you will be responsible to develop UI and API level automation infrastructure that will simplify adding new automated tests, for the product team. This is a growing team, which makes for many opportunities to be involved directly with product management, development, sales, and support teams. Everybody on the team is passionate about their work and we’re looking for similarly motivated “get stuff done” kind of people to join us!

Roles & Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, Product Managers and Developers to define the project quality goals, testing strategy, test plan, and test cases
• Review test-design, guide other team members to improve quality, report product/solution quality, escalate if needed: be the gatekeeper for quality
• Build test automation infrastructure and automate test cases
• Engineering dashboards (e.g. JIRA) to provide insights into test cycles
• Be ready to adapt to the changing priorities
• Ensure tests are running in Continuous Integration (CI) model and moving towards Continuous Delivery (CD) goal
• Play well with others! Be a great teammate and help maintain our positive culture

Skills Required

• Experience in API Testing, Security Testing and Performance Testing (JMeter, Gatling etc)
• Familiar with SQL and popular databases (Postgres, MySql etc)Experience in using Build automation tools (Maven, Gradle, bundler etc)
• Experience in using Continuous Integration tools (Jenkins, Hudson etc)
• Experience in using BDT frameworks (Jbehave, Cucumber, Lettuce etc)

• Defines develop and implement quality assurance practices and procedures, test plans, and other Test assessments.
• Develops automated testing systems using commercial tools, scripts, and data sets in a continuous integration environment.
• Participate in all aspects of testing, including functional, regression, load and system testing.
• Works collaboratively with development during all stages of projects to provide in-process testing results.
• Engage with scrum in an Agile team environment.
• Own the quality aspect within the scrum team and define and maintain the key quality metrics.
• Critical Competencies / Leadership Anchors
• Creates strong commitment and promotes open dialogue.
• Defines success in terms of the entire team.
• Is action-oriented and has a strong sense of urgency.
• Uses logic and rigorous problem-solving skills to resolve difficult problems and drive effective solutions.
• Relentlessly customer-focused and dedicated to exceeding the expectations of internal and external customers.
• Drives innovation to bring creative ideas to market.

Qualifications

• B.E. with 3+ years of testing experience.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and scrum processes.
• Experience developing automated and manual test plans.
• Experience with test automation tools preferably Selenium & Specflow
• Experience with API testing using Postman or Swagger or others
• Experience with SQL and databases basic knowledge
• Experience with object-oriented programming languages such as C#
• Experience with source-control management such as Git
• Experience in testing apps developed with web technologies such as ASP.NET, MVC, JavaScript, and Angular, Protractor, and Karma.

Desired

• Experience with Continuous Integration such as Jenkins.
• Experience with cloud-based technology and specifically the Azure Cloud.
• Ability to collaborate with DevOps to manage releases.

• Over 6 - 12 years of experience in software testing and test automation
• Minimum 2 years of experience working in agile projects
• In depth knowledge of test automation using Selenium
• Good knowledge in web service testing using Rest Assured
• Experience in development of test automation framework as Data driven/Keyword driven/Hybrid/POM. Should have developed 1 or more automation frameworks from scratch.
• Highly motivated, with a proven ability to work on own initiative within a challenging work environment.
• Strong team player with good organization, planning and leadership skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including oral/written communication & influencing skills
• Exceptional presentation, business writing and professional standards Good analytical, diagnostic and creative problem solving skills.
• Atleast one project experience in E-Commerce Domain.
• Must Have - Automation with Java, test framework, QA process & tools like Selenium, Jenkins, Maven, API testing, RESTAssured.
• Good to have Spring Boot.
• Good to have WebTestClient.

Competencies -
• Experience in testing Web Based applications and APIs
1. Understanding of HTTP Fundamentals - HTTP Verbs/Cookies/Caching
2. Understanding of Rest Based APIs.
3. Experience with complex software features, and build effective test plans
• Experience in automating Rest Based APIs using frameworks like RestAssured
• Experience in automating UI Tests preferably using Selenium and Java
• Exposure to Distributed Load Testing using Jmeter
• Strong skills in Java and TestNG
• Understanding of Maven
• Experience with SQL
• Exposure to Jenkins/git
• Strong Logical Reasoning
• Exposure to AWS
• Strong Communication Skills - Able to express clearly and confidently
• High enthusiasm and zeal to learn and adapt to changing situations

What Else?
Ours is a young and dynamic team which is looks to excel in every work item they lay their hands on. Regular beer hangouts, brainstorming sessions and challenging conversations would be a part of your regular day at work