Lead Automation Test Engineer

RESPONSIBILITIES:

·                  Responsible for system integration testing, including automation, of newly developed or improved applications.

• Responsible for reviewing requirements and design artifacts, developing unit, integration and system test cases, ensuring extensive test coverage for our cloud application
• Play an active role in translating business and functional requirements into concrete work
• Provides testing expertise, testing oversight and direction for multiple projects. Ensures the functionality of the functional design specification is met.
• Lead, develop, and consult on test automation strategies and provide critical feedback in requirements, design, implementation, and execution phases.
• Develop and enhance next generation Test Engineering Automation solutions in a Continuous Integration environment
• Extensive experience in an Agile/DevOps environment in collaboration with BAs, product owners and application developers.
• Define, design, development, documentation and maintenance of tools and Automation Frameworks for current and next gen Software Platforms/Frameworks as part of an Agile team
• Partner with different internal partners - Product Management, Application Development, DevOps and other Technical teams.
• Experienced in mentoring more junior Test engineers, verifying work products and providing mentorship as needed.
• Capable of working on multiple work streams concurrently in a fast-paced environment with extreme multi-tasking and context switching.
• Project Coordination:
• Perform test engineering activities such as review of high-level design, detail design, test plan and results.
• Teaches, assigns, directs, and reviews the work produced by other team members on the Team.
• Assists in coordinating the implementation of changes to improve performance.
• Technical Management:
• Acts as domain specialist for applications/systems under their responsibility.
• Coordinates with internal and external interfaces in more sophisticated end-to-end testing situations.
• Prepares the data within the environment vital for larger and more sophisticated systems.

QUALIFICATIONS:

·                  Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field and/or related experience

• 7 years of experience in the job or related position.
• Hands-on Java application Automation testing experience
• Hands-on Selenium experience in test environments including Selenium Web driver, Appium, Cucumber BDD, TestNG, Rest Assured API, and Junit automation.
• Web development experience such as JavaScript, HTML, XML.
• Experience with tools/languages such as IntelliJ, Eclipse/Java, JavaScript
• Experience with at least one RDBMS such as DB2, Oracle etc.
• Hands on Linux, Unix scripting experience
• Automation at all software layers (e.g., UI, services, APIs, etc.) as well as CI/CD technologies (e.g. Jenkins, Cucumber, Git, Jira, etc.)
• Experienced in Agile/Waterfall, onsite/offshore work model and coordination.
• Software testing lifecycle (specifically the testing model, methodology, and processes),
• Experience with Test Engineering methodologies and Test Automation Frameworks
• Experience with front-end & backend testing
• Experience in writing sophisticated SQL queries.
• Experience in estimating, prioritizing, and planning testing activities