QA Automation Engineer

Job Description

Analyze requirements to develop test cases and test data for data intense back-end applications in such a way that defects are uncovered as early as possible

Perform hands-on manual testing while scripting automated tests to ensure application functionality, performance, and security

Continuously develop and socialize best practices for the design and development of robust and easily maintainable QA Automation Suites.

Serve as a liaison to business analyst and product owner, providing feedback on application readiness for migrations.

Be involved in all phases of the agile software development lifecycle

Write clean, high-quality scripts that test product functionality automatically.

Conduct various tests for systems integration, UI, applications, databases, API.

Identify specific cases that should be automated and discuss them with QA Team.

Develop the best automation solutions based on the clients’ requirements.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams (developers, product managers, QA Team) to find ways on how automation can improve the workflow.

Take part in brainstorms to come up with new ideas and designs that improve existing features.

Other Specification

Education Level: Bachelor’s in Computer Science, or related field or equivalent experience

Experience Required: 1 to 3 years of professional experience in Software Quality Assurance and Test Automation

Skills and Knowledge:

Passion to work and grow as a Software QA Engineer

Ability to analyze acceptance criteria and discuss scenarios with team with a goal of identifying possible issues upfront even before the feature is developed

Ability to build automated test scripts, plan tests and strategies according to the project

Thorough and disciplined, ability to analyze a problem and weight severity of the issue

Dedicated worker skilled at collaborating in a team setting

Proven excellent problem-solving and analytic skills

Demonstrated excellent communication skills

Familiarity with Agile workflow as well as Atlassian Jira and Confluence

Technical Expertise:

Strong understanding of object-oriented programming

Good knowledge of any programming language like JAVA, C#, Python or .Net

Knack for writing clean, readable, and easily maintainable QA automation workflows

Experience in testing web services such as RESTful API

Experience in performance testing using tools such as Apache JMeter

Proficient in SQL and relational database concepts and formats such as XML and JSON with experience in testing non-GUI applications

Proficient understanding of code versioning tool and familiarity with Continuous Integration atmosphere would be a plus

Knowledge of AWS services would be a strong plus point.