QA Automation Engineer

About the Role

A Quality Assurance Automation Engineer with over 9 years of experience will participate in test planning, manage the automation repository and CI environment, and develop and maintain automation frameworks for API and UI-based testing.

Responsibilities

• Participate in test planning to determine which test cases to automate and which to execute for each project/release.
• Manage the day-to-day automation repository and CI environment, ensuring test scripts run without error.
• Develop and maintain automation framework(s) to support API and UI-based testing.
• Create and maintain Test Plans.
• Participate in in-sprint automation of test cases.
• Determine automation candidates for each release based on selection criteria.
• Convert requirements, user stories, design documents, or existing manual test cases into automation scripts, ensuring compliance with development methodology and framework.
• Develop and maintain Sanity, Smoke, System, End-to-End (E2E), and Regression Test types.
• Perform routine maintenance of existing test scripts, anticipating changes and updating scripts accordingly.
• Collect metrics to track time and cost savings from automation.
• Provide daily progress reports and escalate testing or automation issues.

Requirements

• 7+ years of QA Testing experience.
• 5+ years of leading manual and automation test programs for large, complex enterprise applications.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience in designing, developing, implementing, and executing automated test scripts.
• Expertise in Internet technologies, tools, and environments.
• Experience with project management tools such as Azure DevOps or Jira.
• A Bachelor's degree (BS/BA) in Computer Science, MIS, or a related technical discipline (or equivalent experience).
• Ability to plan, organize, and direct automation activities to maximize operational efficiency.
• Experience developing test strategies and planning approaches for manual and automated testing.
• Ability to map requirements to test cases and analyze complex applications to develop test cases.
• Skilled at examining and analyzing typical business workflow scenarios.
• Ability to create and execute automated test scripts and report on test execution status.
• Strong project management skills and exposure to project-based work structures.
• Detail-oriented and deliverable-focused with an active, hands-on style.
• Experience writing software defect reports.
• Ability to communicate effectively on both technical and non-technical levels.
• Ability to understand applications from technical and business perspectives.
• Ability to make sound decisions based on business, technology, and QA guidelines.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience or knowledge of Mortgage Servicing and/or prior banking experience.
• Strong knowledge of system testing best practices and methodologies.
• Experience building an automation program.
• Experience working on applications built in a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).
• Understanding of SQL databases and ability to run SQL queries.
• Experience with CI/CD technologies such as Jira, Confluence, Crucible, BitBucket (or other Git servers), and Jenkins.

Location: Coppell, TX, USA (locals only). In-person interview required.