Senior Test Engineer - Automation

About This Role

This senior test engineer role centers on designing, implementing, and executing automated test cases and scripts for microservices and web applications. The position involves end-to-end testing in a real environment, focusing on functionalities, use cases, load, and performance. This role suits an experienced QA professional who can contribute to the QA community and work with geographically distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and execute test cases and scripts to validate functionalities, use cases, load, and performance of the solution, including end-to-end testing in a real environment
• Design and implement automated tests using SpecFlow and Gherkin language
• Design and build automation frameworks using tools like Selenium and Python
• Build and execute API Automation Test Framework/Scripts using Python/LocustIO
• Perform first-level investigation on failed tests to identify root cause
• Support and maintain up-to-date necessary environments for testing, such as integration by deploying new releases
• Continuously interface with geographically distributed teams in Ottawa, Austin, and Noida
• Actively participate and contribute to the QA community on topics like test strategies, improvement to automation, exploring new frameworks, practices, and technologies about testing, deployment, and monitoring
• Follow the agile methodology used for the project, including validation of user stories and creation of corresponding tasks to help create a robust system based on user-centric design
• Archive validation project source code in Github, documentation in Confluence, and utilize Jira for task and issue tracking

Requirements

• 5+ years of industry experience validating microservices/web applications using .NET OR Java based platform
• 5+ years of experience in using standard scripting languages and validation tools: Python, Selenium, C# .Net
• 4+ years of experience in implementing automation tests using SpecFlow (or some other similar framework) and Gherkin Language
• 3 years of demonstrated experience utilizing continuous integration tool Jenkins
• 2 years of experience on API automation testing using Python, SoapUI, Postman or similar tools
• Experienced in web services, web standards; SOAP, REST, HTML/CSS/JavaScript
• Experienced in Agile software development methodology
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or other relevant field of study. BE/B. Tech/ M. Tech/MCA or Equivalent degree
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills are required

Nice to have:

• Experience in working with strong authentication solutions using OTP or identity management solution
• Experience in working with public cloud environment (AWS, GCP) and related technologies (OCP, K8s, helm, ansible)
• Ability to effectively communicate test, specification and implementation details
• Occasional flexibility to work outside of normal business hours to collaborate with remote teams
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) environment experience
• Proven ability to work independently on assigned tasks