QA & Automation Lead - Senior Engineer

Role Description

QA & Test automation engineer with good experience automating UI & API testing who must ensure, by testing and automating all the quality checks needed to be performed to ensure the right quality of the system developed.

Your key responsibilities

• Develop test automation strategy for large complex projects in AGILE methodology.
• Develop non-functional testing automation strategy for large complex projects in AGILE methodology.
• Contribute to team agile planning activities and backlog prioritization and management.
• Collaborates with product line stakeholders to understand and develop strategies, frameworks relating to their emerging demands.
• Driving innovation/adoption of Industry practices through investigation/institutionalization of new tools/methods/standards.
• Ensures that testing activities are being conducted in accordance with the testing strategy and plan.
• Perform and achieve in sprint testing team and release goals.
• Create test documents like: Test Plan, Test Risk Assessments, and Test Results and make sure that they are reviewed and approved by appropriate stakeholders.
• Participate in estimation of User Stories in Story points.
• Create, Automate and Execute test cases to cover all user stories acceptance criteria and honor timely deliveries.
• Increase the test coverage and test speed by automating all possible test cases.
• Create and develop test automation frameworks.
• Integrate test automation framework into CI/CD pipeline.
• Ensure test flakiness is at a minimum.
• Participate and help in knowledge transfer sessions when necessary.
• Defects submission, monitoring, and retesting
• Keep demo sessions to prove acceptance criteria are met.
• Coordinate the preparation of test environments.
• Define and create all test data / test data generators needed for the tests.
• Maintain regression test pack.
• Align with dev team to understand the integration with different systems to execute System Integration Testing
• Provide regular status reporting to scrum team.
• Verify entry/exit criteria for all SIT, UAT, PPD, PROD phases.

Your skills and experience

Mandatory:

• Experience in Test automation using any of available tools (JMeter, Cypress, RestAssured, Karate, Postman etc.)
• Experience in using/following - GIT, confluence, test case management, test strategies and execution plan.
• Experience in agile QA processes, In-Sprint testing, and signoffs.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.

Nice to have:

• Experience with modern SDLC tools - Git, JIRA, Artifactory, Jenkins/TeamCity is a plus.
• Experience working in any one of cloud providers i.e., AWS, Azure, or Google.
• Experience in coding test automation flows with any of the available programming languages i.e., Java/C#/JavaScript/GO.
• Understanding of microservices architecture, integration of different services etc.

Experience:

• Bachelors degree in computer science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of professional software testing and automation experience.
• Experience in end-to-end testing right from understanding the requirement/stories to QA sign-off.
• Experience in REST API testing, Functional Ui test automation, Integration Testing.
• Experience in working with tools such as JMeter, Karate, Playwright, Selenium, and API frameworks.
• Experience implementing BDD & TDD approach.
• Knowledge of test coverage and different testing metrices.
• Good Java programming and object-oriented concepts and coding skills.