QA Automation Engineer

Summary of position:

This position will be a part of product engineering team with a fast paced, highly collaborative start up like environment, which will have the responsibility for the quality of software development and deployment, developing and performing automated tests to ensure the features developed are fit for purpose.

Duties & Responsibilities:

•       Analyze user stories and use cases/requirements for validity and feasibility using test automation frameworks.

•       Write moderately complex code/scripts to test end-to-end functionality spanning multiple services that includes front-end applications, middle and backend services across a variety of architectures and cutting-edge technologies, implementing test harnesses and infrastructure as necessary, automate repeated tasks and build test coverage through existing or new infrastructure.

•       Grey box testers rather than black-box testers, able to understand software internals, troubleshoot and debug problems using log files etc information, and write automated tests with scripts and/or user-level automated tools.

•       Collaborate with QA Engineers to develop effective strategies and test plans.

•       Test systems at the user level, both manually and with automation including performance and security  testing.

•       Detect, report and track software defects and inconsistencies.

•       Lead/collaborate on improving engineering team's test coverage, release velocity and production health.

•       Collaborate with partner teams to understand customer usage patterns and develop test plans and suites that approximate real-world environments.

•       Help drive the software development process towards quality-centric methodologies, always seeking to avoid defects or find them at the earliest stage possible

•       Should possess the skills to handle pressure and challenging deadline.

•       Apply agile quality engineering principals throughout the Agile product lifecycle.

•       Conduct post-release/post-implementation testing.

•       Provide support and documentation as needed.

•       Position will have significant influence on our overall strategy by helping define product features, drive the system design and architecture, and spearhead the best practices that enable a quality product.

Skills Required:

•       Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a related engineering field.

•       Must have minimum 5 – 8 years of experience in automation.

•       Solid experience working with Java, and automation tools (e.g. Selenium).

•       Proven experience as a Quality Assurance Engineer or similar role.

•       Proven hands-on Software development experience and knack for writing clean, readable, and easily maintainable code and strong knowledge of professional software engineering best practices like coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.

•       Strong customer focus, ownership, urgency, and drive.

•       Motivation to drive tasks to completion and take ownership of quality of features.