QA Automation Engineer

QA Automation Engineer

Genesis
10 is currently seeking a QA Automation Engineer for a contract position with a Global Financial Institution located in Charlotte, NC. This is a 12+ month contract opportunity.

This role involves developing and executing testing strategies within both Agile and Waterfall methodologies. The ideal candidate will work with development teams to troubleshoot issues, develop comprehensive test cases, and identify opportunities for test automation using tools like Selenium and Cucumber. This position requires strong experience in API testing within the banking domain.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute testing strategies utilizing various software deliverable methodologies (Agile, Waterfall)
• Work with Development and other internal teams to help troubleshoot and resolve issues, identify risks, and ensure defects are resolved
• Ensure adherence to defined testing quality standards
• Develop detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test cases based on functional, non-functional, and compliance requirements
• Lead test planning, usually at a team level
• When part of a Scrum team, ensure stories are well refined and contains clear acceptance criteria
• Implement the test framework for the team
• Lead test case reviews and works with subject matter experts and stakeholders to ensure test coverage
• Identify automation opportunities and develops test automation for applicable test types
• Help condition and generate test data and ensure data compliance requirements are met on all levels of test environments
• Identify and manage sensitive test data
• Design test data and ensures data compliance requirements are met on all levels of test environments
• Execute test cases, including manual and automated tests, and record test results
• Report issues and defects along with the appropriate background information for review
• Trace tests forwards/backwards through the development lifecycle and back to requirements
• Use testing tools and follow processes to complete testing on a given test environment, and assist with fulfillment of necessary steps required to promote code base to higher level environments
• Maintain and catalog test suites across test types (Smoke, Integration, Regression, etc.)

Requirements:

• 8 years of hands-on experience
• Experience designing, developing, maintaining, and analyzing automated test scripts
• Experience executing automation scripts, preparing executions reports and defect logs
• Experience creating project deliverables including automation test plans, automation estimation, test reports and automation dashboards
• Octane, Selenium WEB and API Testing, Banking SME, Selenium/Cucumber, Testing Process and Tools (ALM and JIRA)
• Ability to support parallel projects in a fast-paced working environment; able to work independently
• Java testing experience

Desired skills:

• Hands-on experience using Cucumber and BDD processes creating Feature Files and Step Definitions
• Command over SQL

Pay range: $49.37 - $57.37 per hour

Only candidates available and ready to work directly as Genesis
10 employees will be considered for this position.

If you have the described qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity, please apply!