QA Automation Engineer - Java

The ideal candidate will be experienced in planning, developing, and executing comprehensive tests. As a member of the Quality Engineering team, you will work closely with the development, BA and support teams to understand the application’s features and architecture to develop test cases to ensure that the application’s UI / API / Data layers are thoroughly tested before releasing into production.

Principal Responsibilities

• Become an SME of the application and utilize that knowledge to own and drive end-to-end testing initiatives throughout the entire SDLC from project test planning, requirement review, test design, test execution, test reporting and sign off.

• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable automated test cases using in house automation framework libraries and open-source frameworks to achieve highest possible test automation coverage.

• Be a strong quality advocate, collaborating closely with software engineers and product owners to release highest quality products.

• Build, maintain, and troubleshoot automated test execution environments/pipelines.

• Work with SDETs to suggest and contribute new features/changes to central framework library and tools.

• Work with QA team members to achieve upstream/downstream integration testing.

Qualifications / Skills Required

• Highly Skilled individual contributor

• 5+ years of experience in Test Automation Harness Development or Software Development using Java, JUnit

• Experience of test automation tools / libraries such as Cucumber, Playwright, Selenium, Rest Assured,

• Knowledge of financial instruments and nomenclature, experience with various trading or back-office systems is desired but not required.

• Proven track record of building test automation frameworks and integrating automated testing tools with them.

• Proficient in Java, with a good knowledge of its ecosystems and BDD framework like Cucumber

• Strong Web Automation using Selenium or similar tools (preferably Playwright)

• Strong API Test Automation using Rest Assured or similar tools

• Experience with CI / CD from test automation perspective.

• Abilities to solve complex problems with practical, maintainable, and scalable solutions

• Strong technical skills, practical knowledge of SQL

• Strong problem-solving skills, troubleshooting, and tracing root cause.

• Experience in automated testing of distributed systems / solutions.

• Experience designing, implementing, or enhancing test harness / framework

Desired Skills:

• Working with AWS cloud applications and understanding of AWS S3, RDS, Athena would be a plus.

• Any experience in performance testing using tools like JMeter

• Any experience in Linux

• Any experience in Security Master