Senior IT Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Test Strategy & Planning
• Oversee the execution of test cases across various testing phases.
• Identify, document, and track defects using defect management tools.
• Drive the implementation and maintenance of automated testing frameworks.
• Establish and enforce quality standards and metrics.
• Generate detailed test reports.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience as a QA Automation Engineer.
• Prior experience developing and implementing automated testing for software built on cloud-native technologies in Amazon Web Services.
• Proficient in DevOps related practices and technologies including but not limited to automated software validation and deployment technologies and techniques.
• Robust expertise in automated testing techniques, including API testing and UI automation frameworks (e.g., Pylenium, Selenium, Appium).
• Deep understanding of quality assurance test automation standards, relevant tools/frameworks/software, best practices, objectives, development, implementation, execution, and reporting.
• Ability to write various types of automation such as generating data to support various testing efforts.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify root causes of defects.
• Proficiency in defect tracking tools (e.g., Jira) and test case management platforms.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to effectively interact with cross-functional teams.
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and Agile methodologies.
• Excels at championing agile (Scrum & Kanban) development and software engineering best practices.
• Proficiency in the following technologies/concepts as they pertain to automated QA testing:
• Pylenium
• Locust
• Postman
• MS SQL and/or PostgreSQL
• AWS application and data integration flow testing
• React and TypeScript
• Apple Swift Development (Xcode, SwiftUI, and UIKit)
• Android Development
• Data validation
• C# and Python
• HTML/XML/CSS/JavaScript
• REST API
• JSON
• PHP
• Entity Framework
• Azure DevOps and Git