Senior 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