Test Automation Engineer

QA Automation with Cypress

PRIMARY PURPOSE

An automation engineer delivers automated solutions for software processes. As an automation engineer, the individual will work closely with development and product teams to help discover and eliminate problems by gathering requirements and implementing process automation. Sometimes this will include software, but other times you might be asked to automate service or business processes.

An automation engineer is responsible for the following

· Identify opportunities for automation within software processes.

· Plan, create and manage the overall quality planning strategy.

· Design and execute QA tests using scripts that automatically test functionality.

· Run tests for databases, systems, networks, applications and software.

· Identify bugs and quality issues in development, service or business processes.

· Install applications and databases relevant to automation.

· Collaborate with development/product teams to understand how automation can improve workflow.

· Gather requirements from clients, customers or end-users to develop the best automation solutions. A detailed understanding of modern SDLC frameworks is required as is the ability to work in an Agile environment.  

  Experience

 · 5+ years’ of relevant experience

· Proven track record in a software quality assurance role.

· Demonstrable strong software test automation experience at unit, integration and system level.

· Experience with automated testing tools, BDD, end-user testing.

· Experience with leading test plan design and strategy.

· Experience working in Agile process and result-oriented culture.

· Strong experience working on Linux-based systems.

· Experience within CI/CD, DevOps and TDD based environments;

 Required Skills

· Solid experience with test automation scripting and tools PHP Unit, Jest, Selenium, Postman, Mocha, Chrome Driver, Cypress

· HTML5, CSS, JavaScript

· Strong SQL, MySQL, knowledge.

· JIRA product suite, Git/Bitbucket, Confluence.

· Experience working on Linux-based systems.

· Experience with private cloud as well as public clouds such as including Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform

· Experience with Amazon AWS, EC2, S3, ACL, EC2, Route53, CloudWatch, security/ ACL

· Mobile development experience

· Any exposure to PHP frameworks Laravel, Zend, Symfony will be a value add.

· Interest or exposure to Blockchain technology is beneficial.

 · Keen eye for detail and a commitment to excellence.

· Be willing to help your teammates, share your knowledge with them, and learn from them.

· Be open to receiving constructive feedback and turning it into process improvements.

· Creativity, motivation and strong communication.

· Effective time management skills for handling multiple tasks as per business priorities and goals.

· Superior written and oral communication skills.

· Superior interpersonal skills, with a focus on rapport-building, listening, and questioning skills.

· Strong documentation skills. Technical Skills

1. Knowledge of Selenium Test Environment (STE) and the ability to configure it
2. Ability to customize Selenium in various integrations
3. Automation of various projects, for example, a framework
4. Communication and interaction with customers to solve their problems
5. Development of equipment automation plans and their approval

Must have Experience of UI testing using Automation tools like Selenium for Web and , Appium for Mobile application. • Must have clear understanding about Selenium/Appium Architecture, Page Object Model, Page Factory designs, Singleton and Builder Design Pattern • Good Experience of using locators (CSS/Xpath), Action Interface, JavaScript Executor • Have good exposure in validating API’s using any tool such as Postman/SoapUI • Basic understanding of API testing using Rest Assured. • Basic understanding of BDD concept with Cucumber as Tool • Experience with TFS/ GitHub • Must have Knowledge of TestNG/Junit . • Must have Programming languages knowledge: Java with strong knowledge of OOPS concept,Exception Handling, Reflection, Serialization and Collection Framework • Must have worked with following technologies Extent Report, Apache POI, Log4J, JSON • Experience of working with any of the databases (e.g.: MSSQL, PostgreSQL, Mongo Db etc.) • Knowledge of Maven, Jenkins and Docker or equivalent CI/CD • Must have good Manual testing experience of STLC, creating test scenarios, test cases with different test design techniques, Logging defects • Strong team player, flexible and should be able to shape up with different teams. • Demonstrated ability to focus and complete multi tasks on time. • Above average communication and should be able to explain architecture of current project. • Working experience in testing the AUT developed/delivered with Agile project framework. • Hands on experience on at least one Test Management or Defect Management tool for example ALM, JIRA, or any Microsoft tool etc. If this role sounds exciting to you and fulfil your future goals, then we would love to hear from you.

Skills Required (Mandatory):

• Automation Testing- using Selenium Java

Roles and Responsibilities:

Experienced with automation tools -Selenium or Appium

Defect management tools (ie: JIRA) Scripting knowledge with Java Programming language 

Understanding of current technologies, Software Test Life Cycle (STLC), Agile and Iterative Development methodologies.

Identify and communicate test plan / cases to automate based on automation framework and approach Defect management tools (ie: JIRA).

Good to Have:

Jmeter, Saucelabs, Testfairy, Postman, Charles proxy, Logcat, etc.

Agile methodology.

Mandate Skills:- Appium, Java

Responsibilities:

• Should have hands on experience Java have flexibility to learn new programming languages, tools & can build PoC around them
• Should have hands on experience on Functional Testing (UI, Mobile, API), Regression Testing, Testing Web Services/API (Postman/Swagger/YAML)
• Experience on load testing/performance testing is good to have
• Should have hands on experience with API testing tools like ReadyAPI, SOAPUI, JMeter, Blaze meter etc.
• Should have hands on knowledge in writing PL/SQL's to collect and verify test data and should have worked on relational databases.
• Must have knowledge on setting up test automation pipeline in CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Teamcity, and Azure DevOps etc.

Desired profile:

• Should have excellent communication skills and should be able to handle communications independently and confidently with business and development teams.
• Should have good documentation skills & experience in defining and publishing key quality metrics and governance around it.
• Experience with Test Management tools like Atlassian JIRA, TestRail will be a plus.
• Experience working in Agile software development

Key Skills

• Java, C#, JavaScript & have flexibility to learn new programming languages
• Designing Proof-of-Concepts (PoC) & Test automation architecture/framework
• Automation Testing (UI, Mobile, API, dB)
• PL/SQL , MS-SQL Server
• API testing tools like RestAssured, RestSharp, ReadyAPI, SOAPUI, JMeter, Blaze meter etc.
• CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Teamcity, and Azure DevOps etc.
• Open Source tools - Appium.