Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:
Responsibilities of the incumbents are to provide manual and/or automation testing of features and capabilities of platform and/or applications.
• Competent to perform all testing, project management, and quality assurance assignments without close supervision; normally assigned the complex aspects of systems work.
• Use your understanding of systems, regression, integration, performance, and user acceptance testing
• Works directly on complex application/technical problem identification and resolution.
• Works independently on complex systems or infrastructure components that may be used by one or more applications or systems.
• Analyze business requirement to develop and execute manual and automation test cases
• Document software issues and defects in bug tracking software and monitor for the resolution.

Techinical Skills Required:
5 years or more of software testing experience (manual or automation) or at least 3 years of experience with master’s degree in computer science or related field.
3 years or more of test automation framework design and development experience 
3 years or more of prior either functional or object- oriented coding experience in modern programming languages like C++, Java or Python (preferably Java)
Strong development skills in two or more of the following technologies and tools: Java/Junit, Python, Cucumber, JBehave or other BDD testing frameworks

Desired Skills:
Plan, design, develop, and maintain API test automation framework that facilitates automation scripting, execution, and analysis of results
Develop of test automation code for Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), of systems, infrastructure, and test framework.
End-to-end system integration testing experience for software platforms
Proven experience developing test scripts, test cases, and test data
Strong experience in testing Webservices (REST APIs)
The ability to write queries in SQL or other relational databases
Experience testing full stack and integration testing with 3rd parties
Experience in TDD, continuous integration, code review practice is strongly desired
Experience with Apigee or other API gateways is a plus
Experience with DevOps concepts and tools (e.g., CI/CD, Jenkins, Git)
At least 2 years working on an Agile team with a solid understanding of Agile/Lean practices.
Understanding of a micro service Architecture
Experience load and performance testing