Quality Assurance Automation Developer

Role: Quality Assurance Automation Developer
T his is a Remote role.
Pay Rate: $66.65/hr
Duration: 12 Months Contract

Job Description:
QA Automation Developer(s) will be responsible for overseeing the quality in the delivery of digital services and ensuring that a team’s focus is on quality. A QA Automation Developer is typically responsible for creating test plans, test cases, and scenarios, identifying required test types, assets, and data environments and tools, and the creating automated test suites.

Scope of Services
Services and project deliverables should evolve as the work progresses, in response to emerging user and business needs, as well as design and technical opportunities. However, the following must be delivered (iteratively) over the course of the project:
• Take the lead in ensuring the delivery of quality digital services:
o Create test plans to support frequent delivery of features with consistent and satisfactory quality
o Create test cases and scenarios
o Design and implement system tests
o Design and implement load and performance tests
o Design and implement security tests.

• Manage automation that allows for rapid and frequent delivery:
o Implement automated test suites; and
o Coordinate contributions to automated test suites.
• Support and encourage the adoption of quality practices on a team such as code linting, test coverage, and Behavior/Test Driven Development (BDD/TDD).
• Support any initiatives regarding the use of re-usable testing components/suites, the creation of test databases or the use of AI during testing.

• Support a team in defining metrics for service quality:
o Contribute to and coordinate automated metrics collection
o Contribute to and coordinate automated generation of reports and Artifacts on quality.

Technical Skills

• Experience with coding and developing new testing automation scripts with CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins or GitHub Actions.
• Work Experience (Must have)
• Experience creating and modifying automation test scripts.
• Experience preparing or supporting the preparation of automation test plans and automation test cases.
• Experience using automation testing frameworks.
• Experience with GitHub.
• Experience with load testing, performance testing, security testing and/or end-to-end testing.

Work Experience (Nice to have)

• Experience with API testing.
• Experience with automation tools Cypress or Playwright
• Experience with Cucumber and/or Gherkin.
• Experience with establishing and gathering automation testing metrics.
• Experience with implementing QA automation standards within an organization.
• Experience with Jira Xray.
• Experience with User Acceptance Testing processes on large, complex, multi-stakeholder environment.