Principal QA Automation; On-Site

Principal QA Automation (On-Site) page is loaded## Principal QA Automation (On-Site) locations:
TX, Coppelltime type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Yesterday job requisition :
R8410## Exceed the expectations of our residential mortgage borrowers & business partners through superior service, simple processes, and effective communications.## We deliver on this mission by empowering our employees by encouraging and recognizing superior performance and innovative solutions, by promoting teamwork and divisional cooperation.
** Primary Function
** Provides guidance and support for automated testing of loan originating software (LOS), and other loans products and portals ("applications") and other applications.  The Principal QA Automation role is primary responsible for the design and development and management of test automation strategy. This includes taking ownership and responsibility for all aspects of automated testing along with creation, execution and maintenance of automated scripts.  

The Principal QA Automation requires that the person has a solid knowledge of QA Deliverables and is proficient in multiple methodologies.  The Principal QA Automation role is required to possess analytical skills to analyze and decompose complex requirements into comprehensive test cases.
** Principal Duties
*** Develop and implement QE test architecture, ensuring right quality and testing coverage within the Portfolio/Platform/Ecosystem
* Responsible for building E2E & Smoke test UI automation, CI/CD integration and developing various test matrix.
* Direct various product teams to use new processes/ test automation tools, providing coaching and review regular code check-in.
* Solve complex technical problems within and between various technology stacks.
* Identify new industry tools/methodologies that enable automation efficiencies and address applications automation challenges.
* Partner with Application Development Leaders to integrate quality engineering mindset/concepts within the Dev Ops framework/pipeline.
* Partner with Solution Architects across LOB to identify E2E application architecture changes to drive QE strategies during testing.
* Responsible for developing UI/API functional test automation code & load/ performance testing for UI & API
* Work with on-site, offshore team and give technical training to onsite and offshore team members.
* Regularly collects metrics to understand and track the time and cost savings.
* Provides daily progress reports and escalate any testing or automation issues using the appropriate escalation paths.
* With support and direction from QA Management, the Principal QA Automation participates in test planning to determine which test cases to automate and which ones to execute for each project/release. The Principal QA Automation manages, day to day, the automation repository and the CI environment, ensuring the test scripts run without error in the target environment. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: 1.

Monitoring the execution of CI/CD test scripts;
2. Monitoring the daily execution of Sanity and Smoke test scripts to ensure they run to completion without errors;
3. Daily detailed status reporting of automated testing activities within a given sprint or release;
4. Participation in product readiness and release decisions, and provides recommendation on test sign-off.
** Education and Experience Requirements
*** A Bachelor's degree (BS/BA) in Computer Science, MIS or related technical discipline
* 7+ years' hands experience in the design, development, implementation, and the execution of automated test scripts.
* 7+ years of experience in a QA/test environment with a focus on technical, automated testing in a variety of environments (cloud, web, business workflows and services/APIs, databases)
* Strong experience in developing and implementing efficient test strategies focused on automation and an expert in leading test framework design to provide efficient optimal coverage though test, component/service-based tests and complex “real life” test scenarios.
* Successful track record of working cross-functionally at a leadership/ executive level.
* Mortgage Knowledge will be an…