Quality Assurance and Automation Engineer

Role & responsibilities

QA Automation Engineer (3 - 5 Years Experience)

Location: Chennai
Experience: 3 - 5 Years

Note:: Primary Skill Set: Core Java, API Testing, Rest Assured

The Purpose of This Role

We are looking for a dynamic and highly talented individual to play a key technical role in WI QE group. Role primarily involves carrying out testing through QE Automation and expertise in Java, database testing and API testing.

We highly encourage you to apply (if you meet our requirement) because:

• Photon is a high-growth IT Services Company with 6000+ Professionals
• Photon partners with Worlds Leading Fortune 100 Clients offering our people best-in-class work culture and challenging projects.
• Photon believes in performance-driven work culture.
• A place where your actions, ideas and performance are respected, valued and rewarded.

The Value You Deliver

•    Solid understanding of the software development process including analysis, design, coding, system and user testing, problem resolution, and planning•    Translate business and systems requirements into technical requirements for automation and software tools.•    Design, develop, document, and maintain automated tests and software tools.•    Actively contribute in the day-to-day planning, design, execution, and reporting of automation•    Follows software engineering principals in development of automation and software. •    Understand and apply test driven design concepts to test and debug automated solutions and software utilities developed by self and others.•    Deliver accurate and maintainable code for automation and software utilities.•    Collaborate with other technical resources to: o    Suggest improvements for processes, best practices, and standards.o    Design and develop automation and software tools.o    Understand requirements.o    Identify opportunities to improve maintainability of automation platform.

The Skills that are Key to this role

Technical /  Behavioral

•    Strong analytical skills and high aptitude to learn and adapt to new processes•    Good understanding of CI-CD Engineering•    Very Strong in Database testing and hands-on experience is building SQL queries•    Can effectively debug and test own automation code, software code, and SQL.•    Hands on expertise in API Testing•    Involved in design, development and enhancement of Automation frame works.•    Expertise in Core Java Programming and excellent in OOPs concepts.•    Proficient in designing and maintaining generic class functions/common utilities in automation framework using Java.•    Hands on experience in Selenium•    Hands on experience in Rest Assured•    Having strong SQL skills and hands-on experience is building complex SQL queries required for ETL Database, Data warehouse testing and data validations.

The Skills that are Good To Have for this role

o    Rest Assured API Testing
o    Web Services REST and SOAPo    Seleniumo    Javao    Functional UI Automationo    PL SQL

How Your Work Impacts the Organization

The primary objective of the Workplace Investments (WI) team is to enable the WI business in the US, while working with IT business partners in the US in a well-integrated way. WI comprises five business lines - Defined Contributions, Defined Benefits, Stock Plan Services and Health and Insurance and Health Savings Account. Over the past 10 years the WI team has developed technical expertise on various functions within each business line of Workplace investments, across strategic new products and within data engineering. We strive to achieve technical excellence in each of these functions and help the WI business accomplish its long term objectives. This role focuses on the development of Automation Infrastructure in support of business needs and the technology evolution to a Devops culture.

The Expertise Were Looking For

•     Strong analytical skills and high aptitude to learn and adapt to new processes
  •    Good understanding of CI-CD Engineering•    Very Strong in Database testing and hands-on experience is building SQL queries•    Can effectively debug and test own automation code, software code, and SQL.•    Hands on expertise in API Testing•    Involved in design, development and enhancement of Automation frame works.•    Expertise in Core Java Programming and excellent in OOPs concepts.•    Proficient in designing and maintaining generic class functions/common utilities in automation framework using Java.•    Hands on experience in Selenium•    Hands on experience in Rest Assured•    Having strong SQL skills and hands-on experience is building complex SQL queries required for ETL Database, Data warehouse testing and data validations.

Kindly apply only if you have less than 15 days notice period / Immediate