Job Description :
DirectClient: TXDOT/NTTDATA
Job ID: NTTJP00003562
Title: Test Architect
Location: Austin, TX 78731
Duration: 12+ Months Contract
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US Citizens/GC/W2 candidates only
Job Responsibilities:
-Contribute towards the future state of automation for Test Engineering by closely collaborating with the testing team, a team comprising of Sr. SDETs, SDETs, functional testers and automation engineers.
-Perform gap analysis of current state of functional testing process , testing infrastructure , automation frameworks across products and strategizing future state of functional testing strategy and align against automation framework .
-Build Holistic Test Strategy and Test impact assessment of all systems under test as part of the program.
-Evangelize, strategize, introduce and implement automation frameworks to support integration, web service and GUI testing across Program
-Writing automated tests and test harnesses application and services under test.
-Writing and reviewing test strategies, test plans and test cases based on the agile stories and/or product requirements.
-Interact and collaborate directly with software developers, product managers, and business analysts to ensure proper development and quality of applications and products.
-Interact with SDETs, QA members and technical leaders to understand systems and component specifications and recommend changes to facilitate efficient and effective testing.
-Evangelize software testing best practices and influence architecture and design decisions.
-Participate in efforts to share testing technologies and expertise within the company.
-Perform tasks efficiently and work together with team to ensure project success.
Required Skills:
-B.S. in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent preferred.
-5+ years of experience as a SDET.
-8+ years of experience in software testing.
-Strong experience working with SDLC frameworks like: SCRUM, Kanban, AgileSAFE Agile preferred)
-Strong Experience to programmatically test products; measure test coverage; CI/CD pipeline , develop best automation, profiling, and performance/load testing tools; and drive testability and diagnostic ability into the product.
-Experience in Selenium web driver, Selenium Grid and Cucumber.
-Experience in testing applications on Cloud infrastructure (Azure/AWS) a plus.
-Experience working in distributed SOA environments including REST services.
-Experience in querying complex schemas and relational databases.
-Experience working in a within a DevOps model and continuous delivery model
-Proficiency in, at least, one programming language Java.
-Strong Experience developing high quality automation frameworks.
-Strong Experience in BDD, TDD, Data driven and Hybrid automation frameworks.
-Experience with automation, web deployment and engineering environment tools such as VSTS, Jasmine, JIRA, Github/Gitlab, Jenkins.