Lead Software Test Automation Engineer

Lead Automation Engineer to work out of our Pune, India office.

The ideal candidate is highly technical and has a proven commitment to quality with a solid understanding of test concepts and automation experience to transition us from a manual testing practice to an automated testing practice.

POSITION:

• Should have knowledge of internal Audit Process
• Should have strong C# with experience in designing the test automation framework using proper patterns
• Should be able to define the test strategies for AI implementation.
• Should be able to work with Power shell scripting
• Design and implementation of the test automation strategy for multiple product development teams. Assist in doing code reviews.
• Mentor and coach technical team members.
• Hands-on contributor to build and enhance solutions to complex technical problems advancing test automation, continuous testing and continuous integration capabilities for product development teams.
• Ability to create scripts beyond record and playback. Specifically developing functions, delegates, extension methods, adding control flow logic, loops etc. This code must be reusable, maintainable code.
• Work side-by-side with developers and functional testers to create test specifications from user stories and transform selected tests into an automated test suite.
• Translating existing manual regression test cases into automated tests using controller test, API test and UI testing.
• Building and executing tests to run on multiple environments using multiple browsers.
• Analyzing existing systems to find areas for improvement.
• Evolving automated test framework to achieve higher test throughout, with increased accessibility and test execution flexibility.
• Perform other non-specified tasks as assigned.
• Should be able to work on integration with CICD pipeline, Jira and other tools.
• Should be able to write the end-to-end integration test with C#
• Should define the reporting strategy using tools like extent reports
• Should have hands on experience in Aspect oriented programing.

Essential Qualifications:

• Bachelor s degree or equivalent work experience.
• 10+ years of development/ test automation experience, preferably with complex web applications.
• Strong knowledge of writing Integration test and UI test.
• Advanced technical troubleshooting, diagnosing and problem-solving skills.
• Strong test automation skills -C#, etc.
• Proficiency in .NET
• Experience with SQL programming and database technologies.
• Understanding of SaaS infrastructure and components (RDBMS, Web and Application Servers, Queues, Caching, etc.)
• Proficiency using MS Office productivity packages - Word, Excel, and Outlook.
• Demonstrated experience with Web Browser Technologies, e.g. HTML, HTTP
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming, design and debugging skills.
• Proven experience developing automated test framework, e.g. Visual Studio s coded UI, unit tests.
• Must be self-motivated and take initiative in performing tasks and growing skills and knowledge.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions) for automated test execution and reporting.
• Hands-on with API testing tools like Postman, Rest Assured, or Swagger.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Working knowledge of Jira.
• Familiarity with software build and delivery process.
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration concepts and processes.
• Agile Software Development.

Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.