Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer Duration of

Contract:

6-months with possible extension Hybrid: 1-3 x a week on-site Northbrook, IL Responsibilities

• Develop test cases and test scenarios in Zephyr and automated testing tool that provide thorough coverage of implemented features and meets acceptance criteria from business stakeholders.
• Enhance/execute existing automation suite using Selenium-Java and Service Automation.
• Experience with Playwright automation tool.
• Expand existing automation framework for microservice level validations.
• Closely work with team on implementing service based automation for REST and Soap calls.
• Execute test automation suites in CI/CD pipelines.
• Integrate Service Automation, Wiremock and UI Automation with CI/CD pipelines on Azure platforms.
• Must be a strong Test Automation Engineer who can work independently and be capable of solving problems and communicate effectively with automation leads when further technical help is required.
• Own and support both manual and automation streams to meet the business priorities for releases.
• Provide expertise in the planning, constructing and execution of test scripts. Apply business and functional knowledge including testing standards, guidelines, and testing methodology to meet the teams overall test objectives.
• Execute smoke tests and regression tests in QA, UAT and production environments to verify code deployments and other system changes.
• Create, update and track execution of test cases within Zephyr.
• Identify, replicate, report and track issues to closure in an issue tracking system (JIRA).
• Review requirements, providing feedback on completeness, testability and other risk areas.
• Assist in the maintenance of dev/test environments including user accounts, application configuration and build deployments.
• Build appreciation & culture of full-stack across the team with focus on T shape skills.
• Identify functional and complete manual tests to be included in automated testing and work on automating candidates for test automation
• Team player and ability to work in Global Team setup, product owners and business team to develop, build & support application.
• Write clean, performance friendly code. Perform unit testing and prepare task documentation.
• Experience with building Test Strategies and Test Plans.
• Investigate and fix production issues and performance issues.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Overall 8+ years of experience in designing and executing test cases on web based applications.
• 5+ years of strong experience in writing micro service automation and UI Automation using Selenium and Java.
• Basic experience in using tools like Jenkins, Maven, Test NG, JIRA, IDEs like Eclipse or Intellij Idea
• Must have experience with version control tools like Git/Git Hub etc.
• 3+ years of experience on any Service based Automation tool. (e.g. Katalon, Rest Assured, etc)
• 3+ years of experience on mocking tool (like Wiremock) and integrating it with Azure platforms.
• Experience with running test automation suites in CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience in analyzing results of automation test runs
• Ability to create test cases based on user stories and business requirements.
• Ability to execute QA testing, interpret test results, and document outcomes.
• Expertise writing and executing SQL queries for data testing.
• Must have working experience in Agile/Scrum Teams.
• Experience with web front end, back end and mobile application testing.
• Technical understanding of web application development, mobile application development and deployment concepts.
• Experience with cloud-based (Azure/AWS is mandatory) application/service architecture, including deployment and scaling.
• Hands on experience in Azure Cloud Services, Dev Ops.
• Good to have experience on Docker Images, Containers, Kubernetes, Distributed Cache:
  Redis, Distributed APM solutions.
• Ability to quickly become proficient in new tools/technologies
• Experience with testing in the following domains is a plus: E-Commerce, ERP / SAP
• Must be highly motivated and dependable with excellent communication skills
• 4 year degree (or higher) in CS / IS or a related field