QA Automation Engineer (Senior)

Core Skills

• Develop and execute comprehensive test plans, test cases, and test scripts for manual and automated testing.

• Design, implement, and maintain automated testing frameworks using tools such as Karate and Playwright and JMeter

• Ensure that testability and quality are embedded throughout the software development lifecycle.

• Work with product owners on defining acceptance criteria and ensuring that these are accurately and efficiently tested for.

• Maintain metrics relating to test coverage and defects, seek paths to increase the former and decrease the latter.

• Ensure testing is cost and time efficient by establishing a continuous feedback loop for improvements, increasing coverage where required and cutting wasted effort wherever possible.

• Investigate techniques such as CI, TDD/BDD, automated testing - identifying and implementing where these would provide the greatest ROI.

• Develop and implement automated test solutions using NBLY standards.

• Responsible for developing and maintaining custom software using NBLY standard coding practices and techniques.

• Responsible for ensuring tasks assigned are completed in a timely manner.

• Fosters an environment of communication and problem solving, leveraging the Neighborly Code of Values.

• Assists the team in researching solutions and recommends solutions to meet business requirements.

• Perform performance testing using JMeter to ensure application reliability and scalability.

• Collaborate with developers, product managers, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and ensure alignment on quality goals.

• Identify, document, and track software defects, and work with the development team to resolve them.

• Conduct regression, functional, integration, and exploratory testing to ensure product quality.

• Continuously improve testing processes and methodologies to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.

• Mentor and guide junior QA team members, promoting best practices in QA.

• Stay updated with industry trends, tools, and technologies to drive innovation in the QA domain

• Maintain confidentiality of personal information.

Minimum Required Attributes:

• Experience of working in a continuous delivery model

• Significant experience developing automated test cases using tools like Playwright, Cypress.io, Karate, Cucumber.

• Strong knowledge of SQL

• Strong knowledge of understanding and utilizing of JSON and XML.

• Good in Java, JavaScript, or similar languages

• Significant experience within a testing role to include at least 6 years of software testing experience.

• Experience of test planning, test estimation, risk analysis and test case design

• Experience in monitoring and reporting test progress and tracking/analysis of defect trends

• Experience of test requirement identification, tracking and analysis

• Ability to determine and dictate relevant test types, methods, and approaches (e.g., appropriate uses of automation)

• Good communication and interpersonal skills

• Experience working with offshore / onshore delivery model.

• Candidate must be customer focused, goal oriented, and have a passion for success.

Preferred Attributes

• Performance testing using JMeter and Karate

• Mobile App automation testing using Appium.

• Browser Compatibility testing using Browser Stack.

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor s degree or equivalent experience

• 6+ years of proven work experience

EXPERIENCE

• 6-8 Years

SKILLS

• Primary Skill: SDET
• Sub Skill(s): SDET
• Additional Skill(s): Core Java, Automated Testing, Selenium, API Automation, API Testing, Cypress, Appium, JMeter, Karate Automation Testing, Postman API testing