QA Automation Engineer

Job Summary:

• Ability to understand business and technical requirements 
• Proficiency in creating comprehensive test plans, acceptance criteria, and test cases. 
• Experience with test automation and integrating test cases into CI/CD pipelines. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Requirement Analysis: Collaborate with stakeholders (product managers, developers, and other team members) to understand business and technical requirements. Define clear acceptance criteria for all features and enhancements. 
• Test Planning & Case Creation: Develop detailed test plans and strategies for manual and automated testing. 
• Automation & Scripting: Create and maintain automated test scripts using Selenium, Mocha, and JavaScript. 
• API Automation Testing: Conduct API testing using Postman and automated API scripts. 
• Defect Triage: Track, prioritize, and triage defects in JIRA or equivalent tools. 
• Collaboration & Communication: Effectively communicate test results, defects, and risks to all stakeholders. Participate and work in Agile environment. 

Required Skills:

• Technical Skills: Proficiency in JavaScript, Node.js, Selenium, Mocha, Chai, Postman, and JIRA. 
• Test Management: Hands-on experience with TestRail or similar tools for creating and managing test cases. 
• CI/CD Expertise: Experience integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, or CircleCI. 
• Automation: Strong experience in both UI and API test automation.
• Cloud Testing: Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS. 
• Problem Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to identify root causes and provide effective solutions. 
• Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills to articulate test results and collaborate with cross-functional teams. 

Additional skills required by client

• QE Automation engineer who can take care of Data Quality and Pipeline API Automation and UI Automation( API automation being the priority) 
• Thoroughly understand the feature, analyze it effectively, and write clear acceptance criteria along with comprehensive test cases. 
• Efficiently identify UI elements and locators using XPath and CSS selectors. 
• Should have programming skills, including tasks like array sorting, addition, and subtraction using Java or JavaScript. 
• Perform API testing using Rest Assured, including validating both requests and responses and pass the key values to the next request.