Senior Automation Engineer II

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Scrum Master, Product Owner, business analysts, product specialists, developers and other project team members to assist in carrying software quality responsibilities of the Scrum team
• Create comprehensive test automation scripts from business requirements and functional specifications documents for product features of moderate complexity
• Execute manual and automated functional, integration, regression, and performance tests
• Maintain automated and manual test script libraries for functional, integration, regression, and performance testing
• Interpret results of automation tests and document software defects in issue tracking system
• Proactively communicate issues with developers and other members
• Provide testing leadership by identifying opportunities for improvement in the Scrum team's QA methodology
• Adhere to a testing schedule to ensure efficient and effective product delivery
• Actively participate in the agile software development process by attending all daily standups, sprint planning, grooming, and retrospectives
• Participate in testathon activities as needed
• Guide and mentor junior staff in proper creation of automated test scripts

Requirements

• Master's Degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or other technical course of study or business background plus 3 years of experience in software testing in a process driven technology environment
• Alternatively, Bachelor's Degree or foreign equivalent in the same fields plus 5 years of experience in software testing in a process driven technology environment
• Demonstrated experience programming with Java, SQL and shell scripting languages including PowerShell and Bash
• Experience in preparing Test Strategy, Test Plans, Test cases and automated Test Scripts and execution of tests against web, native/desktop applications, APIs and batch applications
• Experience on QA checks across various layers of continuous delivery infrastructure using CICD tools like TeamCity
• Experience building automation tests using TDD/BDD techniques with tools such as Cucumber and Playwright
• Experience in maintaining automation code and resources in configuration management tools like GitHub/Bitbucket
• Experience in container-based delivery using Docker
• Experience using messaging services like Kafka, Kafka connect, Kafka stream
• Experience in the Financial services industry
• Ability to translate business requirements into comprehensive functional and technical test plans
• Effective written and verbal communication skills

Qualifications

• Master's Degree or Bachelor's Degree in a relevant technical or business field