RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Development, customization, deployment, and maintenance of the reliable and scalable test automation frameworks for all systems and applications.
• Create unit tests and Integration mock services, perform Unit Testing and API Testing and Integration Testing, and collaborate with developers to conduct end-to-end defect analysis and resolution of defects, and in reviewing test results for maximum test coverage.
• Execution of types of performance testing to ensure that solutions meet the minimum baseline standards and performance benchmarks.
• Test strategy formulation which includes decomposing the business and technical requirements into test scenarios, defining test data requirements, managing test case creation, devising contingencies plans and other testing preparation activities.
• Development and reviews of test plans, designs, test scenarios, test cases, and requirements documents with cross-functional teams for both functional and nonfunctional testing.
• Executes and reports on planned functional and non-functional tests, report and manage defects, regress software fixes for new and existing products, assist development with replicating and debugging problems.
• Support in the implementation of CI/CD delivery models, create execution pipelines and integrate automation scripts into CI/CD pipeline.
• Participates in solution architecture and design reviews and makes recommendations to inform fit for purpose and resilient solution implementations.
• Supporting solution deployments to production, and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) of system incidents and in resolution of such issues.
• Coach and mentor other QA Engineers in test automation best practices, frameworks, and QA Engineering discipline.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCES:

• For the above position, the successful applicant should have the following:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field of study
• ISTQB / ISTQB Agile Tester Certification / Certified Test Engineer (CSTE) / Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA) / Certified Associate in Software Testing (CAST) / CMSQ (Certified Manager of Software Quality) is added advantage.
• Minimum 3 years experience in Software Quality Assurance
• Minimum 2 years experience in Software Test Automation
• Should have a solid understanding of testing principles, testing types, and methodologies.
• Highly proficient at debugging issues – learn debug tools like – Chrome Web Debugger.
• They should be able to write reusable code/scripts and hence they should be proficient in at least one scripting language e.g. Java, python.
• Knowledge and experience in API testing using POSTMAN and Soap UI
• Experience in White box testing tools and techniques – like Mocking frameworks (Mockito)
• Good Understanding of architecture principles and standards of applications and general client-server model.
• Good understanding of Object-Oriented Programming concepts and programming languages like Java, C#,.NET
• Good understanding DevOps, Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery concepts (CI / CD) and experience in using CI tools like Jenkins/Bamboo and code versioning tools like Git.
• Experience with at least one automation frameworks such as Selenium/Katalon studio/Cucumber/Robot framework/Webdriver.io/Appium/Playwright etc.
• Good understanding and experience in performance testing as well as writing simple scripts using open-source performance testing tools like Apache JMeter.
• They should also be aware of the fundamental concepts of Security testing and knowledge of basic coding standards (like OWASP) which ensures that there are no security flaws left unaddressed software applications.
• Knowledge of agile development methodologies using the Sprint/Scrum methodology of agile.
• Knowledge of public cloud technology platforms like – Amazon AWS, Google GCP, or Microsoft Azure.
• Exposure to Behavior Driven Development.