Quality Assurance Automation Engineer
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Creating test strategies, test plans, and test scripts for both automated and manual testing.
• Developing scalable and reliable automated tests and frameworks.
• Contributing to implement repeatable automated tests during sprints to ensure quality, reduce test execution time, & incorporate automated tests into CI/CD processes.
• Planning the budget and labour needs of each sprint and product releases.
• Working in a dedicated squad team and helping to drive product quality.
• Ensuring all assigned testing deliverables timelines are met within the sprint and product release.
• Creating and communicating test reports for stakeholders such as the principal engineer, product owner, scrum master, & release management.
• Liaising with business users, business analysts and engineers to ensure that any assigned defects are resolved.
• Maintaining awareness of external environments and trends in testing, in order to contribute to the improvement of processes and assets.
• Promoting productivity through test automation tools, methodologies and best practices.
• Coaching and training other team members on manual and automated testing.
• Adapting new way of working, finding ways to continually improve, and actively participating in squad events.
REQUIREMENTS
• Degree in Computer Science, Business, Economics or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years of software testing experience
• At least 3 years of automation testing experience.
• Experience in both manual and automated testing including planning, test case design, test reporting, defect tracking, estimating and test coverage.
• Experience working with external parties & vendors
• Demonstrated capability to learn and understand a business and its processes and systems in depth
• Experience with Selenium as well as other tools (e.g. Java, Maven, & Postman)
• Demonstrated skills with REST and SOAP webservices, & API testing
• Familiarity with Azure DevOps Pipelines and parallel test execution
• Experience testing web, mobile and windows applications
• Ability to work across multiple products / platforms / squads
• Agile methodologies
• Regular use of a defect and test management system such as JIRA, Confluence & SharePoint