Lead Engineer - Automation

Minimum 5 - 7 years experience in Automation with at least 2 years in Manual
Improve the overall efficiency of the QA Automation team by mentoring and helping the team. Also building the automation Roadmap.
Hands-on QA Automation engineering with a primary focus on leading the implementation of our automated test framework
Work with the product team to understand the requirements, define test strategy, and design comprehensive test plans and test cases
Architecting, designing, developing, maintaining, and documenting automation scripts
Analyze and decompose a complicated software system and design a strategy to test it
Review, maintain, and improve current automated software test methodologies and processes
Clearly document, manage and prioritize defects from multiple sources. Collaborate with development, QA analysts, and Test Engineers to perform root cause analysis
Evaluate (commercial, open-source, or proprietary) testing tools and test frameworks which can be leveraged within a project
Enforce Engineering Excellence practices and drive quality early in the development cycle; enforcing code standards, unit testing, test-driven development, and other strategies to improve and ensure code quality
Proactively communicate with the development team during the development cycle and participate in the design and documentation of new features
Contribute to continuous improvement and proactively support knowledge sharing across the product delivery team

Requirements

Experience in Automation testing with Cucumber, Rspec, Java, Selenium, Appium, and Python (optional) for SOA and event-driven applications.
Must have knowledge of Maven/Gradle for build automation
Must have competent automation knowledge of web and mobile framework
Good to know about Performance Testing using Jmeter.
Exposure to API automation testing using POSTMAN/Rspec/Jmeter.
Should have experience in conducting/participating in defect triage meetings/efforts.
Should have worked in a Continuous integration environment.
Good understanding of Junit, JIRA, BDD, and Agile processes.
Should have experience in writing manual test cases based on Acceptance test criteria
Knowledge of web application technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and JSON
Must understand existing automation frameworks and be able to make necessary upscaling
Should be a good communicator with effective spoken and written communication skills
Clear verbal and written communication in English is extremely important to succeed in our teams, as we work across borders with multi-nationality teams where clear communication is the key.