Quality Automation Engineer - Salesforce

What you’ll do

Applies a theoretical knowledge-base to work to achieve goals through own work

● Characterized by specific functional expertise typically gained through formal education

● May provide guidance to others as a project manager using technical expertise

Level: P2

● Requires knowledge and experience in own discipline; still acquiring higher-level knowledge

and skills

● Identifies and solves a range of problems in straightforward situations

● Makes decisions within guidelines and policies that impact own work

● Prioritizes and organizes own work to meet deadlines and deliver quality results

Key Skills: ● Attention to Detail - Create thorough and accurate documentation of all work including

status updates to summarize project highlights; validating that processes operate properly

and conform to standards; Organizes own work, following established standards and

processes.

● Automation - Automate defined test cases and test suites per project and plan; Develop

test automation using automation frameworks

● Collaboration - Collaborate with peers, Product Owners and Test Lead to understand

product functionality and specifications to create effective test cases and test automation

● Execution - Define methods of bug prevention, testability strategies and other advanced

testing concepts; Define test cases and create scripts based on assessment and

understanding of product specifications and test plan; Create automation test plans;

Execute test cases that validate product functionality per the test plan; Record testing

results and defects with details to reproduce the issue in JIRA and Zephyr

● Quality Control - Create defects as a result of test execution with correct severity and

priority; Analyzes discrete sets of information from functional and non-functional test

execution; Assist in integrating test automation in the CI environment; Performance /

Resilience: Understanding application and network architecture as inputs to create

performance and resilience test strategies and plans for each product and platform.

Conducting the performance and resilience testing to ensure the products meet SLAs /

SLOs

● Quality Focus - Ensure communications are thorough and accurate for all work

documentation including status updates; Peer review created test automation with other

SDETs; Monitor product development by using JIRA stats to measure product quality;

Review all requirements/acceptance criteria to assure completeness and coverage

● Risk Mitigation - Work with team leads to track and determine prioritization of defects

fixes

What experience you need

● Bachelor's degree in a STEM major or equivalent experience

2-5 years of software testing experience

Able to create automated test based on functional and nonfunctional requirements

Self-starter that identifies/responds to priority shifts with minimal supervision.

Software build management tools like Maven or Gradle

Software testing tools like Cucumber, Selenium

Software testing, performance, and quality engineering techniques and strategies

Testing technologies: JIRA, Confluence, Office products

Cloud technology: GCP, AWS, or Azure

Cloud Certification Strongly Preferred

Solid understanding of object oriented programming, design and debugging skills.

Proficiency in at least one Object Oriented programming language – Java, C#.

Proven experience developing automated test systems using Selenium and TestNG.

Working knowledge of databases and SQL.

Good understanding of Service Oriented Architecture, and working with RESTful APIs, SOAP, XML or JSON.

Comprehension of how HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Ajax are used throughout web applications.

Strong technical and testing skills - Knowledge of various software testing strategies and approaches.

Experience in testing web based applications in SAAS architecture.

Understanding of Agile/Scrum methodology.

Excellent communication, interpersonal and collaborative skills.

Demonstrated ability to work and communicate effectively as part of a distributed team.

Passionate about leveraging test automation to dramatically increase speed and quality of software delivery processes.