Job Description
The Software QA Automation Engineer is responsible for developing, executing automated test suites, and testing approaches throughout the SDLC from design, delivery, operations, and maintenance. This individual will collocate with the Development teams and Operations teams for ensuring overall code quality and ongoing maintenance and operations of a set of applications.
Job Description:
· Participate in developing and documenting User Stories by providing the test strategy and automation estimates.
· Develop, document, and maintain the test strategy and test scenarios.
· Build and execute unit, component, acceptance, integration, load, security, scalability, usability, and platform tests.
· Conducts code reviews to ensure consistency, quality, and reusability of test automation artifacts.
· Partner with the developers to ensure all areas of the application are fully tested and to find technical solutions for test automation.
· Build and manage automated test suites and ensure execution through various environments, CI-CD pipelines and to be used by NOC teams.
· Regularly execute, maintain and upkeep automated test suites and analyze the results to identify the cause for failures.
· Create defects for issues found with appropriate details and ensure issues are resolved, including validation of the fix, and required automation updates.
· Present appropriate results to sign off on software functionality for new Production releases.
· Work with cross teams and release management team to manage dev, QA, and production release of the software.
· Perform exploratory testing to understand the feature and how it is implemented, to find additional or unexpected behavior, and to refine and define additional test cases for the feature.
· Contribute to the QA automation framework using industry standard tools and approaches.
· Leverage and enhance coding standards and best practices for automated QA code.
· Participate in analyzing Major Incidents and Emergency Change controls to identify opportunities to automate software quality test cases to reduce or eliminate those.
Qualifications:
· Minimum 7 years of industry experience, preferably in an Agile development environment.
· Must have 5+ years of Java coding experience. Javascript experience is a plus.
· Experience with automated testing tools - Cucumber/Gherkin, Selenium Webdriver, NodeJS and Java.
· Experience in API automation testing using JAVA Springboot2, RestAssured, GraphQL or Postman.
· Experience with JMS driven messaging protocols like AMQ, RabbitMQ, Kafka, and etc.
· Knowledge of MS Entity Framework/Spring JDBC
· Experience with Service oriented architecture.
· Knowledge working with CI/CD processes and tools - preferably Jenkins/JenkinsX.
· MUST HAVE Experience with source control versioning tools and processes – Git / Stash.
· Experience in writing SQL queries for test data preparation as well as data validation.
· NICE TO HAVE – experience with querying Couchbase database.
· Experience working with databases and various data formats and related technologies for testing. SQL Server and SQL Server Management Studio is a plus
· Experience with Splunk analytics for validating technical fixes and updates in the app code/config.
· Experience with defect tracking tools (JIRA)
· POS system experience is a plus
· Nice to have experience with payment gateways and payment terminals
· Nice to have experience with Kubernetes and container-based application deployment and operations
· Experience in heavy traffic eCommerce applications.