Job Description :
Automation Engineer
Location: New York NY, 10001
Duration: 6 Months (Contract to Hire)
Work Authorization:GC-EAD,GC,TN Visa and Citizen
Responsibilities:
Leading regression testing activities for initiatives across one or
more assigned projects, utilizing processes, methods, metrics and
software that ensure the quality, reliability and systems safety and
security.
Understanding the interfacing applications, test environments and our
tools and methodologies.
Drive test strategy formulation with developers including
decomposition of business and technical requirements into test case
scenarios, defining test data requirements, oversee and advise on test
case creation, devising contingencies plans and other preparation
activities.
Ensure development of test case execution plan and oversee test case
execution, issue management, and status metrics.
Working with a global team and responsible for directing/reviewing the
test planning and execution work efforts of an offshore team.
Communicating effectively with business units, IT Development, Project
Management and other support staff on testing timelines, deliverables,
status and other information.
Assisting in the project quality reviews for your assigned applications
Assessing risk to the project based on the execution and validation
and making appropriate recommendations
Ability to interpret quality audits, drive improvements and change,
and facilitate test methodology discussions across the business unit
Additional areas of responsibilities include:
Providing project implementation support on an as needed basis
Assisting with application training of new resources.
Acting as a liaison between the Line of Business testing resources and
the development team
Qualifications:
7 + years in Information technology, minimum 5 years of experience
working with full SDLC
Strong knowledge and experience in Agile Methodology
Strong knowledge of testing methodologies with specialization in Web
services, middleware technologies and UI automation
Must work collaboratively with BSA/Developers and proactively identify
defects during each Iteration / Sprint.
Must be detail oriented and capable of analyzing issues from the
perspective of customers/users
Experience in testing SOAP / REST services.
Experience with TDD, code testability standards, JUnit/Mockito
Hands-on experience with understanding and updating Gherkin
(Given/When/Then) will be a plus
Hands on experience on with Test cycle management tools like JIRA/HP ALM
Strong Knowledge of quality assurance principles, techniques and tools
required
3+ years of hands on automation development using SOAP UI with Java or groovy.
3+ years of hands on automation development using LISA or Cucumber
3+ years of hands on with development and test automation
tools/frameworks (e.g. BDD and Cucumber)
Experience with API and service testing
Preferred Skills:
3+ years of experience as software developer using any one of Object
oriented languages (e.g. Java/Ruby, Python, C#, C++, etc
Experience with Spring
Strong understanding of OOP & SOA principles, design patterns,
industry best practices
Experience building / testing REST and SOAP web services
Experience with SQL/Stored Procedures on one of the following
databases (DB2, MySQL, Oracle)
Experience with scripting and working in a Linux environment
Experience working on large and medium scale software projects
Experience building distributed systems at Internet scale
Experience working in a fast-paced financial services/digital focused
delivery environment