Sr Automation Test Engineer

Description & Requirements

Sr.

Quality Engineers are resources within IT Applications Testing Shared Services.

They are responsible for systems testing of start-up implementations and O&M software development projects.

The Sr.

QA Engineer's role includes analyzing and reviewing systems requirements, collaborating with development and DevOps engineering teams to understand project objectives, and gathering automation requirements to design reusable and maintainable automation tests.

The individual will actively contribute to the continuous improvement process by enhancing or expanding the existing automation framework to drive our vision forward.

This position also involves developing a test strategy to maximize the use of automation in testing web-based applications built on microservices architecture and webservices.

Additionally, the Sr.

QA Engineer will mentor testing team members, lead efforts in performing proof-of-concept research for new tools, make recommendations on such tools, and implement them upon management approval.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Lead the development of software solutions that will meet or exceed business requirements which includes; designing and implementing modules to the system specifications, conducting unit testing, troubleshooting issues, and producing detailed proposals to resolve issues.

- Evaluate new coding techniques, tools, modules, and implement as appropriate.

- Consult on requirements elicitation and definition.

- Design software solutions per systems requirements.

- Code software solutions per designs.

- Code reviews, unit test, and integrate coded modules.

- Assist other developers in resolving issues by providing guidance and training.

- Support testing and remediate defects.

- Support users through troubleshooting and analysis of production logs and data.

- Investigate new solutions, tools, products, and techniques to incorporate into coding standards.

- May provide guidance, coaching, and training to other employees within job area.

Design, implement and maintain Page Object Model and Data Driven framework for Test Automation.

• Develop test automation code in Selenium/Python or Selenium/Java programming to test UI, DB applications, and Mobile API.

• Collaborate with Development, DevOps, and AWS teams to build and execute tests through CI/CD deployment pipelines.

• Identify and prepare test data for testing purposes.

• Participate in test management activities for testing web based and/or mobile applications including test data preparation, execution, and defect reporting

• Manage defect lifecycle process from reporting bugs to closure.

• Review automation framework, peer review of automation code, test scripts and test suites to ensure adherence to coding and security standards.

• Mentor other team members during the sprint work and provide project-specific trainings to new team members.

• Provide regular updates to the Test/Project Manager.
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