Software QA Automation Engineer

About Mojo Trek

Mojo Trek is a trusted custom software delivery firm. We build and modernize the revenue-generating and customer-facing systems that high-growth companies and ambitious operators depend on to grow. Woman-owned. Inc. 5000 for four consecutive years. 100% client retention, earned not bought.

What You'll Do

• Participate in developing and documenting user stories by providing test strategy and automation estimates.
• Develop, document, and maintain the test strategy and test scenarios.
• Build and execute unit, component, acceptance, integration, load, security, scalability, usability, and platform tests.
• Conduct code reviews to ensure consistency, quality, and reusability of test automation artifacts.
• Partner with developers to ensure all areas of the application are fully tested and to find technical solutions for test automation.
• Build and manage automated test suites and ensure execution across various environments and CI/CD pipelines, including use by NOC teams.
• Regularly execute, maintain, and upkeep automated test suites, and analyze results to identify the cause of failures.
• Create defects for issues found with appropriate details and ensure issues are resolved, including validation of the fix and required automation updates.
• Present results to sign off on software functionality for new production releases.
• Work with cross-functional teams and release management to manage dev, QA, and production release of the software.
• Perform exploratory testing to understand features and their implementation, uncover unexpected behavior, and refine and define additional test cases.
• Contribute to the QA automation framework using industry-standard tools and approaches.
• Leverage and enhance coding standards and best practices for automated QA code.
• Participate in analyzing major incidents and emergency change controls to identify opportunities to automate quality test cases and reduce or eliminate recurrence.

What You'll Need (Required)

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 7 years of industry experience, preferably in an Agile development environment.
• 5+ years of Java coding experience.
• Experience with automated testing tools such as Cucumber/Gherkin, Selenium WebDriver, Playwright, and Java.
• Experience with API automation testing using Java Spring Boot 2, RestAssured, GraphQL, or Postman.
• Experience with JMS-driven messaging protocols such as ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, and Kafka.
• Knowledge of MS Entity Framework/Spring JDBC.
• Experience with service-oriented architecture.
• Knowledge of CI/CD processes and tools, preferably Jenkins/JenkinsX.
• Experience with source control versioning tools and processes (Git/Stash).
• Experience writing SQL queries for test data preparation and data validation.
• Experience working with databases and various data formats and related technologies for testing.
• Experience with Splunk analytics for validating technical fixes and updates in application code/configuration.
• Experience with defect tracking tools (JIRA).
• Experience in manual testing.
• Ability to work independently with an aptitude for detailed work and follow-up activities.
• Ability to multitask in a fast-paced Agile work environment.
• Experience in heavy-traffic eCommerce applications.

Nice to Have (Preferred)

• Experience querying Couchbase databases.
• SQL Server and SQL Server Management Studio experience.
• POS system experience.
• Experience with payment gateways and payment terminals.
• Experience with Kubernetes and container-based application deployment and operations.