Senior QA Automation Engineer
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What is this opportunity?
Senior QA Automation Engineer
Responsibilities
- Work within an agile software development team providing test automation expertise across the team.
- Write new tests and update existing tests ensuring broad and deep coverage across the application functionality and codebase.
- Work collaboratively with engineering team to identify test cases and suites best suited for automation.
- Plan and execute performance tests using tools like JMeter.
- Work with other DHI QA resources to enhance/expand existing automation framework.
- Troubleshoot and provide failure analysis of issues identified from the automation suite.
What are we requiring for this role?
Knowledge, Skills and/or Attributes:
- Tested web applications that involved technologies, such as HTML, JavaScript, responsive design, JSON and REST to be accessed on multiple platforms, including mobile and desktops
- Ability to analyze automated test results and metrics, perform root cause failure analysis
- Strong SQL knowledge – responsible for complex data validation
- Understanding of web technologies (HTML5, CSS3, JS, responsive design, etc.)
- Understanding of TCP/IP, DNS and Load Balancing
- Strong background in QA methodologies and best practices
- Ability to write and execute detailed test cases that exercise all aspects of the system under test
- Ability to distinguish defects from enhancement requests
- Background/ability to work in a collaborative team atmosphere
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Effective time management skills
- Passion for using technology to innovate
- Ability to deliver innovative value, increasing capabilities and mentor true software craftsmanship
- Willingness and desire to learn new and different technologies
Required Education and/or Experience
- Bachelor's degree in MIS, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related discipline or equivalent work experience
- 8+ years of experience testing web-based applications with a strong background in building comprehensive automated frameworks
- Experience with common automated testing frameworks and platforms across Java, and open source languages, including Gherkin (SpecFlow, Cucumber, etc.), Selenium, Rest Assured, JMeter, Appium or other mobile test automation framework
- Experience working in AWS and utilizing AWS technologies
- Experience with Continuous Integration (CI) tools: Jenkins or others
- Experience working in an enterprise environment with agile software development methodologies
- Experience with some of the following technologies or similar technologies:
- Java or other OO language, Python, SQL
- JavaScript, CSS, Angular, Angular CLI, TypeScript, RXJS, SASS, NPM
- Spring Framework, Hibernate, RESTful Web Services
- Docker, Tomcat, Linux
- Git, Gradle, Jenkins, Artifactory
- Postgres, MongoDB
- JSON, XML, YAML
Preferred
- Deep experience developing in a least one language – Java and javascript
- Demonstrable open-source work and contributions