Automation Tester Engineer

Position : Automation Tester Engineer 
Location : Chesterfield, MO(Partial remote)
Duration : 6+ Months contract with EXT

 Sr Automation Tester

1. Skills needed:
2. - Strong JavaScript skills
3. - Selenium 
4. - Cucumber
5. - Git Hub
6. - Will be leading the effort to stand up new framework and best practices
7. - Ability to work in an unstructured framework and build it out
8. - Taking manual processes and automating them

Position Overview

Independently, ensures that the correct technical solutions are being utilized by the Quality Automation Engineers and provides technical solutions, tool and business mentoring in the use of the testing tools and techniques. Assists with the management of the Quality Assurance and Automation testing process.  Works closely with software developers and automation engineers to resolve issues. Develops and maintains automated test scripts to reduce repetitive manual testing. Participates in project-wide reviews of requirements, system architecture, and detailed design documents.

Responsibilities

• Establishes and implements automated testing processes for application, performance, load, user-interface, object, regression and data quality.
• Participates in the creation of and/or review requirements and detail design documentation in any form to understand system features and begin necessary test scripting and automation
• Works with various teams to create, enhance and maintain the Automation Frameworks across the products.
• Interacts with Business Analysts; Users, designers and developers to further understand the system and/or resolve systems defects.
• Develops test plans, test cases and test scripts utilizing appropriate toolset to cover system functionality as completely as possible
• Ensures personal and QA Engineers' test scripts adhere to approved scripting standards and guidelines
• Performs automated and manual testing efforts for our products
• Develops various reports to support testing and QA processes
• Analyzes and reports on defects utilizing appropriate defect tracking software
• Manages test data by setup and maintaining data driven tests.
• Helps define, improve and implement QA best practices
• Assists the Executive Director in researching and recommending appropriate testing tools for use with the BA, QA team and developers.
• Mentors and teaches as appropriate, other BA and QA Analysts in the use of approved tools and procedures
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Education

Required

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related degree, or equivalent experience

Experience

Required

• 4+ years of quality assurance and testing of medium (6-8 months) to large (12+ months) size IT web-based software projects
• 3+ years of automation testing tools experience
• 1 year knowledge and understanding of Total Quality Management, Software Quality Analyst or Test Engineer best-practices, or working towards certification in these areas.
• Complex analytical and problem solving skills
• Ability to work independently and coordinate activities within a team
• Demonstrated ability to quickly learn new technologies
• Advanced ability to solve complex problems, drawing upon creativity, experience, and multiple sources of information
• Advanced communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex information in straightforward manner

Preferred

• 2+ years of Total Quality Management experience
• Advanced experience with automation testing tools (e.g. Selenium, UFT, Python, SOAPUI Pro, GEB/Fitnesse, Protractor, LoadRunner)
• Knowledge of Java programming
• Familiarity with HTML, JavaScript, Groovy, VBScript, CSS, XML, and XPATH