Senior Automation Tester

Are you passionate about architecting and developing solutions that solve complex business and systems problems by leveraging state-of-the-art technology?

What you will do

• Design and build scalable automated test frameworks and test suites working across technologies.
• Work closely with development and business teams to communicate impacts and to understand business requirements.
• Implement, execute, and debug automated test scripts using various technology and tools.
• Perform manual testing, the scope of which will encompass all functionalities of services as a prequel to automation.
• Analyze test logs, create test reports, co-ordinate with stakeholders.
• Participate in design and code inspections.
• Write functional, integration, and customer work-flow (end-to-end) test automation to validate product functionality and integration with dependencies.
• Develop, modify and execute software test plans.
• Work closely with other quality and development engineers to build, evolve, and maintain a scalable continuous build and deployment pipeline.
• Help lead automation efforts and share best practices in test automation.
• Complete own role independently or with minimal supervision/guidance.
• Research and evaluate a variety of software products and development tools.
• Apply knowledge/skills to a range of standard and moderately complex activities
• Assimilate disparate information (log files, error messages, etc.) and pursue leads to perform root cause analysis.
• Ensure optimum performance, high availability and stability of solutions.
• Focus on taking actions and delivering results.
• Think systematically in a multicultural environment, to deal with different role & team members.
• Provides technical guidance and support to colleagues such as code reviews, testing, and software documentation as required.

What you will need

• Graduate or Post Graduate degree in Computer Science or equivalent qualification
• Minimum 5 years of software engineering experience, developing and delivering products and solutions in a commercial environment
• Experience developing test strategies, automation tools and frameworks.
• Experience in web application and device test automation using Selenium.
• Excellent experience and skills working with Selenium framework.
• Test development experience using Mocha/Chai/Jasmine/cucumber is an added advantage.
• TestNG, JUnit & Testng experience is highly desirable.
• Coding experience with automation framework, tools and services for mobile. Working Experience in API testing and Automation of the services.
• Advanced development skills on Java/JavaScript/C#, shell scripts/python.
• Experience working with OJET and VBCS is desirable.
• In-depth understanding of QA methodologies, life cycle and processes.
• Strong understanding of REST/HTTP/SOAP and JSON.
• Knowledge of XML, XSD, WSDL.
• Experienced with Windows and Linux, such as Red Hat or Ubuntu.
• Ability to set up test environments and test beds.
• Expertise testing all layers of a web application, including front-end, service layer, and back-end testing.
• Strong understanding of software/testing methodologies such as TDD, BDD, data-driven testing.
• Experience working with cloud computing technologies, e.g. GCP/AWS/Oracle/OpenStack is an added advantage.
• Familiarity with container technologies, e.g. - Docker, Kubernetes, or OpenShift.
• Strong knowledge of common web protocols, networking, and systems.
• Experience with implementing continuous integration and delivery concepts (CI/CD) using Jenkins.
• Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals and data structures.
• Strong, object-oriented design and coding skills.