Principal Automation Engineer

Job description

Experience Required: 4-9.5 years

Role: Senior Quality Engineer

Education: Full time Bachelor’s/Master’s engineering degree

Mandatory Skills- Java Coding, Selenium UI Testing, Rest assured, BDD, Cucumber

Immediate Joiners are preferred

Role Requirements Technical skills:

Must Haves

- Experience with QE for distributed, highly scalable systems

- Good understanding of OOPS concepts and strong programming skills in Java, Groovy or JavaScript

- Hands on experience of working with at least one of GUI based test automation tools for desktop and/or mobile automation.

Experience on multiple tools will be added advantage

- Proficient in writing SQL queries

- Familiarity with process of test automation tool selection & test approach

- Experience in designing and development of automation framework and creation of scripts using best industry practices such as Page object model

- Integrate test suites into the test management system and custom test harness

- Familiar with implementation of design patterns, modularization, and user libraries for framework creation

- Can mentor team as well as has short learning curve for new technology

- Understands all aspects of Quality Engineering

- Understanding of SOAP and REST principles

Thorough understanding of microservices architecture

- In-depth hands-on experience of working with at least one API testing tool like RestAssured, SOAP UI, NodeJS

- Hands-on experience working with Postman or similar tool

- Hands-on experience in parsing complex JSON & XML and data validation using serialization techniques like POJO classes or similar

- Hands-on experience in performing Request and Response Schema validation, Response codes and exceptions

- Good Understanding of BDD, TDD methodologies and tools like Cucumber, TestNG, Junit or similar.

- Experience in defining API E2E testing strategy, designing and development of API automation framework

- Working experience on build tools Maven / Gradle, Git etc.

- Experience in creating test pipeline – CI/CD Preferred: (Mostly for people being hired at the Senior Associate Career Stage)

- Possess domain knowledge to identify issues across those domains, understand their impact, and drive resolution [(familiar / expert in domains like retail banking, automobile, insurance, betting, food-markets, hotel industry, healthcare)

- Used /Exposure to automation tool for automating mobile applications

- Used /Exposure to automation tool for non-functional testing

- To setup test environment for execution on cloud environments such as Sauce labs, browser stack

- Knowledge of new tools (open source & licensed) in the automation world and have the knack to explore them and keep abreast with the latest tools in the market

- Expertise in creating test automation frameworks, implementing and maintaining them on a project Experience in the modern agile practices such as BDD/Cucumber, Devops

- Knowledge and experience in service virtualization and tools like CA Lisa

- Hands-on knowledge of setting up PACT Broker and writing PACT tests is desirable

- Experience in test management tools like Xray & Zephyr and integration of test framework with these tools

- Understanding of commonly used software design patterns like Builder, Factory, Singleton and Façade.

Test Management:

Must Haves

- Able to estimate for low and medium complexity applications and have used at least one of the estimation techniques.

- Able to handle/oversight a small team ranging from 2 -5 people and can guide them during the complete SDLC cycle starting from test case creation till test closure activities

- Well-versed with the most of the activities in defect management process, can define/enhance the defect documentation and TAR lifecycle process independently

- Have expertise to enforce/adhere defect or other processes in the team Preferred (Mostly for people being hired at the Senior Associate Career Stage)

- Mentored or coached at least one person

- Can define Automation Test strategy and test plan for low and medium complexity applications taking into account the business needs, ROI etc.

- Able to maintain and report test coverage matrix

- Able to identify device coverage for the application in question.

- Can devise regression testing approach

Soft Skills:
- Possess excellent Communication skills (written, verbal both formal & informal)
- Helps to create a positive, collaborative working environment for the team.

- Quick grasping and flexibility to adapt to new technologies/processes

- Ability to multi-task under pressure and work independently with minimal supervision.

i.E. Ability to prioritize when under pressure

- Efficiently makes tough decisions and communicates them effectively.

- Independently manages operational level client meetings.

Develops strong relationships with appropriate client stakeholders.

Acts as the primary POC/facilitator for planned (regular) client meetings.

Manages peer-level client relationships (expectations, communications, negotiations, escalation, feedback, etc.)

Required Skill Profession

Engineers