Senior QA Automation Engineer

Responsibilities

• Analyzing product requirements and specifications;
• Ensures that testing activities are conducted in accordance to the testing strategy and plan;
• Executes or contributes to proof of concept using technical tools and helping to evaluate ROI and feasibility studies;
• Enhances 'best of breed' framework/harness for automation testing;
• Implements or contributes to automation/performance test strategies;
• Defines requirements for test data environments;
• Defines or contributes to test effort estimation based on experience, tools and historical data;
• Creates test data, writing and executing of test cases/scripts;
• Ensures that test packs are maintained and have incorporated any specific tests that have been identified following a production incident;
• Analyses test results, document issues, and retests corrections to ensure that problems are resolved;
• Ensures that test risks and issues are recorded and escalated as appropriat;
• Document and maintain project documentation and communicate results;
• Ensures the timely reporting and classification of defects;
• Ensures adherence to testing best practices and the Client's testing standards;
• Co-ordinates with all team members;
• QA/BA/DEV/PM;
• Collaborates with other peers to minimize testing inter-dependency issues and agree to migration to live environment;
• Aligns to the wider team/group objectives;
• Champions and participates in the activities of the broader QA & Testing profession and Community of Practice;
• Adheres to Client's Policies and Procedures;
• Takes ownership for own development and career management, seeking opportunities to develop personal capability and improve performance contribution.

Skills

Must have

• 5+ years of hands on experience in test automation;
• Strong knowledge Java or JavaScript and good knowledge of SQL scripting and database structure;
• Experience of industry standard test tools and testing frameworks(e.g. HP ALM 11, UFT, Selenium);
• Experience with GCP (BigQuery, Could Composer, Cloud Data Flow, Cloud Data Catalog);
• Understanding of testing across the full Software Development lifecycle;
• Experience of planning and executing testing across all layers;
• Experience of building out technical testing solutions adhering to frameworks and standards;
• Solid experience in test documentation design including test plans, test strategy, test cases, etc;
• Strong knowledge of testing processes and defect tracking(preferably JIRA);
• Experience of providing input into technical frameworks and strategies;
• Customer and service orientation to support interaction with team resources and clients;
• Proven experience with Risk Management and Control policies and procedures;
• Proactively, initiate, develop and maintain effective working relationships with team members;
• Good written and spoken English: upper intermediate and higher;

Nice to have

• Experience in Agile/SCRUM;
• System integration testing experience;
• Continuous Integration: TeamCity or Jenkins;
• Linux shell;
• Participation and/or completion in testing certification programs (ISTQB, ISEB or tool specific certifications);
• Load & Performance automation experience: HP LoadRunner, JMeter.