Sr. Automation QA Engineer

Description:

• 8+ years’ experience in automation of functional test case, with a minimum of 3 yrs experience as a senior engineer in mid-large sized complex project with minimal supervision.
• Plan, estimate, design and develop automation test scripts based on existing framework and enhance where needed.
• Identify and prepare test data for testing
• Provide regular updates to the Test/Project Manager
• Maintain Project’s test and automation artifacts
• Position may require some level of manual testing if needed

Technical Skills / Knowledge Required:

• Solid hands-on experience in Se/Python or Se/Java building automated test scripts and enhancing framework for efficiency and reusability used in automating test case library of thousands of test cases.
• Strong coding in Python is a must for test automation. (Strong Java will be considered but will need to learn Python)
• Understanding OOPs concepts to build reusable and maintainable automation scripts.
• Proficient in Rest components/APIs for testing webservices and web applications
• Hands-on experience writing SQL queries for validations and test data prep
• Experience with testing applications hosted in the AWS environment, thus solid understanding of AWS ecosystem
• Must have worked in a DevOps environment supporting CI/CD
• Familiar with testing applications built using Microservices Architecture
• Familiar with containerization and container orchestration tools like Kubernetes/AWS Fargate

Skills required:

• Programming Scripting Language: Java and/or Python (8 years hands-on experience)
• Automation skills in Selenium (8 years hands-on experience)
• SQL skills (8 years hands-on experience)
• Rest API (5 years hands-on experience)
• Test Automation in Agile Environment (5 years hands-on experience)
• DevOps (CICD) (5 years hands-on experience)
• AWS Environment (3 years hands-on experience)

Personal/Soft Skills:

• Excellent organizational, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Ability to do presentations and walkthroughs with Systems and Business personnel
• Ability to work well in a fast-paced environment under deadlines in a changing environment.
• Must be organized and detail oriented.

Additional Skills / Knowledge Preferred:

• Working experience in an AGILE, SCRUM environment.
• Healthcare Industry experience is preferred.

Education Requirement:
Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in information technology, computer science, statistics, or a related field.