QA Automation Engineer

Quality Assurance Automation Engineer Job DescriptionPOSITION SUMMARY: This position is responsible for designing and delivering successful Automation Testing as part of the Quality Assurance team. Responsibilities include planning, designing and developing an Automation Framework for facilitating manual regression tests from development into the framework, mentoring project teams on automation and performance testing, providing work direction and execution of Automation test activities, and providing related reporting. As a key QA liaison, interacts directly with IT and customers while performing duties and communicates known risks or compliance issues discovered within software.

Responsibilities:Working closely with IT Project teams, Business Partners, and Operations Partners to collaborate on product design, and offer inputs on the testability of functional elements and product designs. Understanding flow of code and how it interacts with different components and analyzing complex applications to design, build and implement test scripts to ensure the testability, robustness, and performance of production software. Assisting project/product team in identifying, evaluating, and prioritizing Regression Review and analyzing automation implementation to identify the possibility of re-occurrence of program operating problems to ensure operational efficiency.

Analyzing complex applications to design, build, organize & maintain test scripts at the right application layer. Designs various test types (Functional, Smoke, Regression) for automation and maintains the Automation Framework (core library design and files). Writing various types of test scripts including but not limited to web services, messaging, database validation, file handling and XML parsing.

Tracks and reports results of automation testing. Identifies and reports on problems, risks, issues and barriers within testing processes. Develops utility programs as needed to create new or modify existing procedures.

Analyzes, learns and installs new automation testing tools and/or methodologies while researching the changing marketplace to keep current with technology and upgrades. Other duties as assigned. Knowledge of:Quality assurance principles and best practices (integration, system, regression, performance, and user acceptance).

Experience with AltTester, the automation tool. Experience with the Unity platform and relevant testing tools. Experience in UI automation for desktop applications.

Object-oriented design with programming skills in modern object-oriented languages such as Java, JavaScript, C#, Python or other. Code versioning tools such as Bitbucket, Git and GitHub. Setting up and working in automation build tools e.g. Jenkins, Maven, Docker.

CI/CD tools such Jenkins, Bamboo, Gitlab. Agile software development tools for test management e.g. JIRA, ALM.Testing tools & frameworks such as Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, JUnit or similar. Ability to demonstrate the following:Experience implementing a Quality Management System as measured by ISO25010 standards.

Experience working with ISO9001 standards for delivering effective/efficient client engagements. Experience utilizing test automation and performance testing with an understanding for the appropriateness of automation in framing a TQM solution. Experience with measuring Quality Assurance effectiveness and creating enterprise metrics to give status and proactively identify/mitigate risks.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills with ability to converse with team and leadership as needed. Work with cross-functional/matrixed teams to deliver quality at the highest level. Requirements/Qualifications:Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Management Information Systems, Math, or related technical field which required programming.5 years' experience in quality assurance including experience with software testing tools, techniques and methodologies; short release cycles, full software lifecycle; work on a product which was released for public consumption and benchmarking, performance analysis and measurement.

Five years' experience of Agile development experience. Advantage: Quality Assurance certification; Cybersecurity certification.