Automation Tester (5-8yrs)

Mandate Skills:

Roles and Responsibilities

• Participate in requirements discussion, test planning, test data creation and execution of testing Plan in adherence with our standards, processes, and best practices.
• Work with project teams to meet scheduled due dates, while identifying emerging issues and recommending solutions for problems and independently perform assigned tasks.
• Design and develop test automation frameworks to validate system to system interfaces and complete software solutions 

  (for Database/ETL, API and UI tests)

• Interact with business and development stakeholders to define test plans and schedules
• Translate complex system requirements into test requirements and testing methods
• Identify and implement complex automation efforts, including refactoring of automation code where needed
• Develop test scripts and perform automated and manual exploratory testing to ensure software meets business and security requirements and established practices.
• Design and develop test data management for defined test cases, recognize test environment preparation needs, and execute existing test plans and report results
• Own responsibility for defect management and oversight and escalation of issues discovered during the testing phase
• Document as per Software Development Best Practices and follow Quality Assurance and Quality Control processes.
• Document performance test strategies and test plans, and execute performance validation
• Collect quality metric data and communicate test status/risks to stakeholders
• Act as first-review for project-level reviews, walkthroughs and inspections
• Provide technical support and mentoring to junior team members
• Perform demos of new product functionality to stakeholders
• Develop business and product knowledge over time.
• Identify opportunities to improve effectiveness and time-to-market
• Provide training and guidance to team members on quality best practices and principles
• Facilitate knowledge sharing sessions to promote a culture of quality awareness
• Be a strong individual contributor to the implementation efforts of product solutions

Requirements

Key Skills: API testing, test cases automation, understanding code written in Java & Spring,  Selenium, Cucumber, JavaI or similar, knowledge of BDD/TDD frameworks

Ability to:

• Write test cases and test strategy documents
• Create robust acceptance and integration test automation scripts
• Integrate with continuous integration tools like Jenkins
• Track regression testing progress and defects using Rally/Jira
• Work in an agile environment and be familiar with scrum ceremonies
• Experience in regression testing as releases move through different environments