QA Automation Tester

QA Automation Tester

Hartford, CT - Hybrid

12 months+ contract

Local candidates only

Candidate must be willing to work on site a minimum of 20% at Hartford, CT

The specific focus of this candidate will be to ensure that new systems are built in a way that best ensures functional requirements are met while also ensuring that service qualities such as performance, scalability, extensibility, maintainability, security, and interoperability for now and the future are achievable. This person will have manual testing hands‑on experience. Additionally, the role is responsible for reviewing and improving existing systems, leveraging new technologies and methodologies to seek continual improvement.

The candidate will work to create a breakdown of the system into components, the component interactions, interfaces—including with the environment, especially the user—and the technologies and resources to be used in the design.

• Follow the core technology and architecture for automated testing of large-scale distributed systems, mid‑range to client‑server and n‑tier e‑commerce applications and solutions.
• Follow specifications to automate the testing of applications.
• Work on all test automation components of solution and create/maintain required technical documentation.
• Follow developed strategies for end-to-end system testing.
• Assist in all testing processes involving the migration and integration of new and legacy technologies.
• Excellent communication, presentation, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver business and technical value.
• Must be very organized, pro‑active, and self‑directed. Must be able to perform with minimal supervision.
• Must have very strong abstract thinking and problem‑solving skills.
• Must have very good verbal and written communication skills.
• Follows the testing standards and strategies and uses them correctly.
• Interface with the user(s) and sponsor(s) and all other stakeholders to determine their evolving needs.
• Follows the set standards for the automated testing software, policies, and execution.
• Reviews all system requirements, test scripts, test scenarios to create appropriate testing workflow. Ensures that this set of high‑level requirements is consistent, complete, correct, and operationally defined.
• Reviews software components and collaborates with development group, Product Owners, System Teams, and Operations to ensure best overall testing strategies, best practices, and techniques for automated testing.
• Interfaces with the design and implementation teams, so that any problems arising during QA can be resolved in accordance with the fundamental design concepts, and user needs and constraints.
• Collaborates on a set of acceptance test requirements, together with the project teams, and the user, which determine that all high‑level requirements have been met, especially for the computer‑human interface.
• Generates products such as unit tests, automated functional tests, regression tests, load tests, code coverage reports, and test scenario pass/fail percentages, ADA/508c/AWGA compliance, cross‑browser compatibility, and mobile compatibility.
• Ensures that all testing libraries and artifacts are maintained in the most current state and never allowed to become obsolete.
• Responsible for creating automated test case scenarios for Agile Delivery Team to meet Acceptance Criteria.

• 5+ years' Experience Azure Dev Ops suite (Azure Boards, Azure Repos, Azure Pipelines, Azure Test Plans, Azure Artifacts) (
  * required)
• 5+ years' Experience in automated testing with UFT (Unified Functional Testing) and VBScript or another programming language (
  * required)
• 5+ years'
  
  Experience with Automated Testing Frameworks and Manual Testing, Test Methodologies, Test Strategies and Test Beds (
  * required)
• 5+ years' Experience with Agile Methodologies
• Develop and maintain UI, Back End, API, and Hardware test automation
• Involved in a minimum of two large‑scaled Agile software development projects
• Knowledge of testing tools, testing frameworks, continuous integration methodologies
• Knowledge of web application testing, distributed system…