Lead Automation Engineer - Java/Selenium (5-8 yrs)

Responsibilities :

- Works within an agile team to develop, test, and maintain business applications built on Pega and Java technologies, both manual and automation testing is required.

- Designing test automation strategy for large, complex, cross-functional projects.

- Utilizing advanced technical knowledge base to create automation test framework and scripts on multiple platforms.

- Leading end-to-end test calls and coordinating UAT testing.

- Identify and prepare complex test data to support the test cases.

- Walk through test scenarios for both functional and End-to-end with stakeholders.

- Support Release activities.

- Defining the test process including required test activities, deliverables, and test schedule.

- Identifying and leading process improvement across the Quality Engineering organization.

- Promotes business effectiveness and efficiency while striving for innovation, flexibility, automation, and integration with technology.

- Ensuring employees and vendor partners are meeting all testing standards by conducting reviews of all the test deliverables/artifacts.

- Consulting with both inter-organizational and outside client contact to ensure the use of best practices and industry standards.

- Understanding of how changes impact work upstream and downstream.

- Independently estimating and re-estimating projects while recognizing and communicating dependencies in cross-functional testing as well as data to complete estimates.

- Contributing to the funding and forecasting process.

- Training and mentoring QE team members

- Managing the flow of information to internal and external clients as well as leadership.

- Assisting with the onboarding of new team members including content development and training.

- Solving complex problems; applying new perspectives to existing solutions.

- Ensures defects are quickly assessed and/or mitigated and resolved, whether in non-production or production.

- Working independently with minimal guidance.

Requirements :

- Hand-on test automation experience with preferably 1-2+ years in Healthcare or the PBM industry.

- Expert-level system test automation experience.

- Expertise in developing automated test scripts using Selenium, Cucumber, Java scripting, node.js, and json.

- Preferably integration to Jenkins and Sauce labs.

- Expert level End to End testing experience across multiple product teams

- Experience developing Java code with the latest web design concepts.

- Experience in Agile development methodology.

- Good understanding of multiple test automation frameworks and Dev Ops.

- Ability to adapt to a dynamic work environment, learn quickly, and solve problems.

- Ability to work a flexible schedule to accommodate business needs.

- Demonstrated advanced technical and analytical skills.

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to adjust to meet the needs of the audience.

- Detail-oriented with the ability to work and guide others during time constraints to meet deadlines.

- Demonstrated ability to mentor and train teams.

- Strong leadership / influencing skills.

- Required Experience and Education :

- University degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.

- Minimum 5 years of work experience in software or web testing.

- Strong desire to learn.