Senior QA Automation Engineer

Senior QA Engineer Job Summary

The QA Engineer helps deliver the quality and performance of large scale, big data, multi-platform software products that includes web, API, and mobile application interfaces. Incumbents in this position are experienced, hands on and self-motivated who can work collaboratively in a continuous integration environment. This role involves working closely with software developers that includes leveraging shift-left methods to understand a complex domain and product. The QA Engineer focuses on contributing to the development of automated functional integration tests and end-to-end tests through open source test frameworks for overall system testing within an agile environment. 

Essential Roles and Responsibilities:

• Create and execute comprehensive test plans for complex web, API and mobile based applications that reference database back-end systems.
• Collaborate with product team to break down stories, understand requirements, and define use cases.
• Work in an agile environment to ensure the timely delivery of high-quality software
• Work with development teams to identify and resolve defects and other quality issues
• Responsible for owning the testing of a user story (including manual & automated testing) and perform in-sprint automation using Selenium Framework,
• Creates and maintains test cases both manual and automated, executes test suites, reviews and diagnose reported bugs, and ensures overall system quality prior to release.
• Designs, develops, maintains, and troubleshoots automated suites of tests through continuous integration for value added feedback.
• Collaborating with the other QA Engineers to review overnight regression test failures
• Works cross functional areas with internal engineering teams in a disciplined agile environment.
• Estimates own testing tasks and works productively with minimum supervision while showing excellent team attitude.
• Provide feedback to the product team on usability, performance, and functionality of our applications
• Advocate for high-quality development patterns, code quality, and testing
• Working with a junior team as a quality ambassador, helping the team identify necessary test coverage, test plans, test cases, and test automation.
• Represents team leadership and provides technical guidance and training to junior test personnel.
• Researching test tools, methodologies, and trends and upgrading existing practices and processes.

Minimum Job Requirements:

• Four-year college degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science or related technical discipline such as Science or Engineering.
• 8+ years of hands-on testing and automation experience for Web, API and/ Mobile
• 8+ year of experience with test processes, open source test frameworks, test design strategies, writing test cases, and automating tests in Java with frameworks like JUnit/TestNG, Selenium, Cucumber, Cypress, REST Assured, Postman, JMeter and Appium.
• 8+ years of experience working on an agile team.
• 8+ years of hands-on SQL database experience
• 5+ Hands on experience or knowledge in Amazon web services such as Simple queue services (SQS), Dynamo DB, CloudWatch, Cloud formation template (CFT), S3 and OpenSearch is a plus.
• 5+ years of experience with continuous integration tools such as Jenkins, Bamboo, TeamCity etc. and experience with tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, Splunk etc.
• Strong experience in API testing (SOAP, RESTful services) using SoapUI, Postman, and Rest-Assured framework.
• Must have an understanding and ability to develop code in Java.
• Hands-on experience with Linux, Windows, and/or mobile devices.
• Setting up, maintaining, and performing test automation frameworks on multiple application platforms, such as Mobile, Desktop, and Web
• Researching test tools, methodologies, and trends and upgrading existing practices and processes.
• Participate in code reviews to ensure that high-quality code is delivered
• Must have strong analytical and problem-solving skills as well as the ability to analyze complex problems in large systems.
• Must be detail oriented, analytical and creative thinker with passion for quality and test automation.
• Candidate must flourish in a fast paced, iterative, deadline driven environment.
• Strong communication and organizational skills 

Labcorp is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer:

As an EOE/AA employer, Labcorp strives for diversity and inclusion in the workforce and does not tolerate harassment or discrimination of any kind. We make employment decisions based on the needs of our business and the qualifications of the individual and do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy or other medical conditions/needs), family or parental status, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, personal appearance, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristic. Additionally, all qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law.

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