Sr. QA Test Automtion Engineer NY

Sr. QA Test Automation Engineer

Location:

New York, NY

Rate: DOE $/hr. on w2 only

Position Type: contract

Interview Process:
Phone followed by F2F

US Citizen, Green Card and GC EAD, TN

Qualifications:

• BS in Engineering, Information Systems or Computer Science.
• 8+ years of experience in software testing and quality assurance for a software engineering or application development discipline utilizing a team approach.
• 5+ years of experience designing, developing and testing automation framework and scripts covering all aspects of test planning, scripting, and validation against SOA services, access login and transaction processing systems.
• 5+ years of experience developing load and performance testing scripts in a common language and working with internal and external organizations for the preparation and completion of planned load tests.
• Selenium or other common automation programming skills for test data preparation, navigation of data entry screens and statistical output for results reporting.
• Groovy scripting under SOAPUI for web service test automation and scenario execution.
• Strong comprehension of LDAP database concepts.
• Strong comprehension of Software Development Life Cycle and Configuration Management using Agile methodology techniques.
• Comprehension of Object-Oriented Programming.
• Comprehension of RESTful web services, SOA.
• Macro programming skills, pivot table and advanced formulas with Excel.
• Comprehension of Public Key Cryptography and encryption algorithms a plus.
• Multi-platform experience (Windows / Unix).
• DBMS:
  Knowledge of SQL Server and Oracle and strong understanding of relational database concepts
• Bug Tracking Tools:
  Jira, HPQC.
• Thorough knowledge of MS-Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access).
• Prior software development experience is a plus.
• Experience with all aspects of SDLC management, with expertise in the automated testing and release management stages.
• Experience working with web application servers.
• Good understanding of CMM processes and procedures.
• Proven track record in developing high quality test cases and automation scripts.
• Knowledge of object oriented analysis and design.
• Experience with high volume, high-availability applications.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Required Skills:

• Automated Testing
• Bachelor's Degree
• CMM
• Developer
• Excel
• Excel Macros
• Excellent Communication Skills
• FULL LIFE CYCLE DEVELOPMENT
• Integration
• Jira
• LDAP
• Object Oriented Programming
• Power Point
• Quality Assurance
• Quality assurance testing
• Rest
• Scripting
• Selenium
• SOA (Service Oriented Architecture)
• SQL
• UNIX
• Windows
• Word