Senior Test Automation Engineer

The Senior Test Automation Engineer works as liaison with the internal business/systems areas and Testing center of excellence to help ensure the current SDLC and Test automation standards are deployed and achieved, and industry standards are followed within the envisioned solution. S/he provides analysis and develops solutions to business problems, Automation Framework and applies specialized knowledge & professional experience in a particular product or System to achieve best results

The Senior Test Automation Engineer needs to coach and guide more junior staff on regular basis and also share knowledge. S/he needs to be proactive with looking for new solutions and advancing automation framework to support new technologies and platform.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree (computer science or related)

• 4+ years of relevant work experience

Hard Skills:

• Strong Application tier and topology knowledge required

• Deep understanding of quality assurance

• Knowledge of software development methodologies (agile and waterfall)

• SQL knowledge and database understanding

• Proficient object oriented programming (Java required)

• Scripting knowledge in Java and Rest Api’s required

Good knowledge of test automation tools and frameworks:

• Build tools (ant, Maven, Gradle)

•  Unit testing frameworks (JUnit, TestNG)

•  Defect management( Quality Center, Jira)

•  Continuous integration tools (Jenkins, TeamCity)

•  Web UI testing tools (Selenium Webdriver using Java)

•  API testing tools (rest-assured, Soap UI)

• Technical Architecture exposure is a plus

• Collaboration desire with all business functions is required

Nice to have:

• Exposure to institutional Financial market

• Java certification is a plus

• Tests tools certification is a plus

• QA certification is a plus

Soft skills:

• Problem solving

• Document and resolve complex problems

• Suggest corrective actions and contribute to process improvements

• Drive for improvement

• Self-improvement

• Team improvement

• Strong interpersonal, written, superior initiative and communication skills

What We Offer:

• Private medical care for you and your family

• Life Insurance

• Hybrid Working Opportunities

• 2 additional days added to your holiday calendar for Culture Celebration and Community Service

• Various additional benefits including professional training and qualification support

• Subsidised cafeteria

• Contracts for an indefinite period of time with no probation period

Responsibilties:

1. Analysis

• Perform Product analysis and requirements clarification for ease of understanding and automation

• Assist with technical artifacts and engage in technical discussion

• Perform automation test results analysis post execution of testing and provide feedback on areas of improvements in code and environment

• Perform Defect trends analysis during and post release and provide

• Detailed report on risks and issues encountered.

• Continuously perform Risk analysis during the entire lifecycle of the project and ensure all risks are understood and communicated by testing center of excellence Manager Risk analysis

2. Prioritization

• Estimate and prioritize testing activities based on workload

• Working directly with offshore team to coordinate automated testing

• Prioritize and manage responsibilities on requirement basis

• Assist in providing estimates for new projects based on automated lifecycle

• Assist in determining automation priorities based on expertise and knowledge of the application under test

3. Testing

• Assist in creating automation test strategy, scripting and plans for all  The projects involved in using standards and methodologies defined by the organization. Also  responsible for creating automation test strategy

• Develop automated test cases for system integration and regression testing

• Create and execute SQL scripts for data validation and creation

• Develop integration and regression test cases based on test design best practices and based on experience

• Execute automated test cases as per the QA plan for the project and report progress of test execution as per organization standards

• Maintain and design test data and test environments required for execution of testing

• Maintain and store all automated test cases, test strategy and all necessary documentation for testing in central repository based on organization strategy

4. Reporting

• Report on automation progress of application under test

• Report status of progress of testing through daily, weekly and other reporting mechanism to all stakeholders for the project

• Report progress status of automation through daily, weekly reporting mechanism to all project stakeholders

• Review and maintain all documentation according to department standards

• Report defects in the defect management system and ensure the status of the defect is tracked to closure

5. Test Tools

• Understand usage of Test tools used  for each project and apply accordingly

• Enforce and market test tools standards based on the technology and platform used by the project team.

• Develop and provide coaching and training to testing teams on requirement basis

• Maintain and design test data and test environments

• Design, code and execute automated test scenarios

• Maintain test automation tools and frameworks

• Design and develop test automation tools and frameworks

6. Automation Framework

• Develop and implement Api’s to provide integration between test management, defect tracking and source management tools

• Provide guidance and support using automation framework to testing center of excellence teams and other business lines 

• Develop strategy to improve continuous integration of existing tools

• Expand and develop existing framework to support new technologies

• Develop effective techniques to utilize test tools and automation framework to avoid redundancy

• Develop and create project for automation to document automated scripts

• Setup and configure integration between tools to execute unattended automated test

• Identify and select appropriate tools depending on project, technology and platform

7. Technical issues

• Maintain repository of Technical issues and  solution

• Trouble and research to identify core issues and resolve it.

• Develop strategy and roadmap to avoid repetitive issues.