Automation Engineer

Mobile Automation Tester

Responsibilities
• Build and maintain backend and frontend test automation frameworks, assisting development teams to catch issues in development and testing phase before pushing to production
• Work cross teams to understand testing requirements and create a comprehensive test plan and create automation and provide sign off and communicate it with stakeholders
• Be a champion having a test mindset
• Lead the development of testing frameworks which can process and validate massive amounts of Data.
• Lead the API driven testing experience. Expertise of working with HTTP API, such as REST, GraphQL or gRPC
• Lead customer engagement and drive and participate in validation of patches and releases
• Will work with the development team closely to add integration tests and contribute to improve Unit test code coverage
• Evaluate open source test automation frameworks
• Perform code review of test team

. Develop UI tests using Selenium Web Driver and BDD

. Write backend integration tests and tests for RESTful APIs

. Implement Test Automation while driving processes to reduce manual test coverage

. Demonstrated expertise in black box and grey box testing methodologies, experience with standard QA and development tools

. Instilling best practices for test suite automation and frameworks and documentation

. Strong knowledge of Agile testing methodologies and best practices

. Experience in OOP and performance testing

. Understanding of web, mobile and desktop technologies

.Implement and execute test strategies on all supported platforms to help improve overall quality and test code

Basic Qualifications

- Master's/Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience

- 5-10 years of relevant experience.

Strongly Preferred Skills/Experience
• Experience in UI device/browser-based test automation using Java w/ Appium/Selenium
• Knowledge of common open source frameworks such as Page-Object models
• Strong experience with test-driven development approaches such as BDD, leveraging tools like Cucumber, Cypress etc.
• Experience with cloud-based test automation solutions such as SeeTest
• Experience with integrated test execution and reporting though automated ci/cd pipelines

Preferred Skills/Experience

- At least 5+ years of experience with developing and maintaining backend and frontend Test automation frameworks, with overall 10 years of experience in QA.

- BS/MS degree in Computer Science/Computer Engineering or equivalent engineering discipline/experience

- Expertise in designing and building test automation frameworks which can process and validate massive amounts of data

- Expertise in JUnit, Test NG, Selenium or equivalent test automation frameworks

- Expertise in development of test automation working with HTTP Api suca as Rest, GraphQL or gRPC

- Expertise on test driven development, developing different levels of automated tests such as unit test, integration test, functional test, system test or Load and performance test.

- Experience with open source logging and reporting solutions (Logstash, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Grafana, Splunk)

- Working knowledge of Angular, ReactJS, or equivalent frameworks unit testing libraries such as jest, enzyme etc..

- Experience using source code control systems (Stash/GIT/GitLab)

- Open Source tools development, implementation, and/or collaboration experience

- Working Developing applications using microservice architecture

- Ability to analyze and troubleshoot and implement enhancements to test automation framework

- Strong written & verbal communication skills.

-Database development experience (MongoDB, Redis, SQL/MySQL/NoSQL)

- Experience in an agile development environment as part of a team of engineers, developers and testers

- Multi-vendor system integration experience.

Required Skills : - Mobile testing with Appium - Selenium and Java - UI testing - Cross-browser and accessibility testing - Senior level needs to come in with minimal ramp up time

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