Quality Assurance Engineer - Automation

Quality Assurance Engineer - Automation

Desired Capabilities

• Understanding of product roadmap, business goals, and customer needs
• Ability to prioritize testing efforts based on business impact
• Provide accurate status tracking and reporting
• Estimate testing efforts
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams
• Effective communication with team members, stakeholders, and customers
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Detail-oriented and self-motivated
• Ability to work effectively under pressure

Key Responsibilities

• Understand requirements for new features and determine test strategy including functional and non-functional requirements
• Research and detail all use cases for any fixes, validate all code paths and client usage in test scenarios
• Execute manual test cases to validate features and/or fixes and determine automation candidacy
• Partner with engineers to develop a quality mindset and advocate for quality standards and adherence to the definition of done
• Utilize existing test automation frameworks, tools, and automated test suites, to increase and modify coverage as new features and fixes are delivered
• Collaborate with development and other quality engineers to fully regress the platform for new releases
• Participation in release preparation, and release tagging. E2E testing cross teams(if applicable)
• Provide demos of the developed features

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field. Equivalent practical experience may be considered as an alternative.
• Minimum of 3 years of hands-on experience in software quality assurance, with demonstrated proficiency in test planning, execution, and maintenance of clear and effective test documentation.
• Minimum of  2 years of experience with automated testing tools (e.g., Selenium, Geb, Webdriver, Cucumber, Spock ) including scripting for automation.
• Familiarity with Agile software development methodologies.
• Experience in working with continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) pipelines, understanding the integration of automated tests within CI/CD processes for efficient testing and deployment.
• Proficient in at least one programming language (such as JavaScript, Java, Groovy) relevant to test automation.
• Good knowledge of databases and SQL(such as Oracle, Aurora), enabling the execution of medium to complex data validation and the ability to interact with databases for backend testing.
• Effective use of defect tracking tools (e.g., JIRA) with the capability to accurately report bugs and track their resolution.
• Strong collaborative skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams to foster an environment of teamwork and cooperation.
• Good  English communication skills with team members, stakeholders, and customers, ensuring clear and effective exchange of information.
• Self-motivated and detail-oriented, with the ability to work independently and under pressure, managing multiple priorities and deadlines effectively.

Additional Experience Desired

• Experience in performance and load testing, indicating the capability to assess system behavior under peak loads and identify potential bottlenecks.
• Experience in setting up Continuous Development environments with tools like Git, Jenkins
• Knowledge about using AWS services (Codebuild, EC2, Cognito) from the console is a plus
• Proactive, Adaptable