Automation Engineer

What you will be doing

Verizon is seeking an Automation Quality Assurance Engineer to join its API Program and help transition business-critical APIs to a developer portal for internal and external use. The devportal will help Verizons globally-distributed teams and their enterprise customers ship code faster, achieve cost savings, reach new customers, and more.

The QA Engineer will be a key contributor to the digital transformation of legacy processes and tools according to API-first methodologies. They will be responsible for delivering features and capabilities for APIs and other tools on internal and external devportals.

• Design and build automated test framework and test suites for use in various testing cycles
• Design and extend existing automation framework to improve release processes and feature validation
• Design and develop tools which will help Manual Testers
• Collaborate with development teams and QA peers to identify and prioritize opportunities for automation
• Own automation script development, script execution, framework optimization and test reporting
• Write frameworks and tools to test products
• Create Automation Framework for end-to-end regression
• Identify the testable requirements and prepare the test strategy for each of the testing types identified
• Conduct and facilitate User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Own the planning, development and execution of test plans and test cases
• Write comprehensive test plans for functional and non-functional testing
• Perform Functional, Regression, and UAT test execution
• Perform Requirements analysis and prepare Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) for release candidate
• Develop quality assurance strategies and organize phased testing along with other QA engineers
• Testing of features across various platforms including web and mobile
• Find, isolate, document, regress, and track bugs through resolution
• Gain knowledge of the features and detailed functional requirements of the work well enough to execute the assigned work

What we are looking for

You will need to have:

• Bachelors degree or one or more years of work experience.
• Experience in test automation framework and tool building experience
• Experience in programming with at least one language such as Java, Python, Typescript or C#
• Experience in creating and expanding opensource automated testing tools and frameworks
• Experience in software engineering concepts: OOP, OOD, data structures and algorithms
• Experience in design, development and implementation of a scalable and maintainable automation for UI and API testing
• Experience in tools such as TOSCA, Playwright, Cypress, UFT, Selenium or Katalon
• Experience in Automated Visual Testing
• Test management tools such as qTest, Zephyr, or ALM
• REST, OpenAPI Spec, Swagger, SOAP and WSDL standards
• Postman and/or other API management and API testing tools
• SQL and No-SQL databases
• Version control tools such as Git, GitLab, Bitbucket

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• ISTQB Test Automation Engineer (CT-TAE) Certification
• ISTQB Acceptance Testing (CT-AcT) Certification
• Familiarity with React library and NextJS framework
• Familiarity with API gateway solutions (preferably Apigee)
• Experience working on public clouds AWS preferred
• Experience with Dockers
• Experience with pytest as test framework.