Selenium Automation Engineer

As an Automation QA Engineer at our company, your role is crucial in ensuring the quality, reliability, and performance of our software products through comprehensive automation testing. You will have a strong background in developing and maintaining robust automation frameworks, with expertise in API and UI automation, and a deep understanding of Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) principles. Your responsibilities will include designing, developing, and maintaining scalable, robust, and efficient automated test scripts and frameworks for both UI and API layers. You will collaborate with product owners, developers, and other QA engineers to define and implement test scenarios using Gherkin syntax (Given/When/Then) within Cucumber. Additionally, you will develop and execute automated tests for RESTful APIs and create and maintain automated UI test suites using Selenium WebDriver. **Key Responsibilities:** - Design, develop, and maintain scalable, robust, and efficient automated test scripts and frameworks for UI and API layers. - Collaborate with product owners, developers, and QA engineers to define and implement test scenarios using Gherkin syntax within Cucumber. - Develop and execute automated tests for RESTful APIs to ensure data integrity, functionality, and performance. - Create and maintain automated UI test suites using Selenium WebDriver to validate user interfaces and end-to-end user flows. - Contribute to the continuous improvement of automation frameworks, tools, and processes. - Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to enable rapid feedback and early defect detection. - Analyze test results, identify defects, and report on test coverage and quality metrics. **Qualifications:** - Proven experience (4+ years) as an Automation QA Engineer with a strong focus on automated testing. - Hands-on experience with BDD frameworks, specifically Cucumber, and writing feature files using Gherkin syntax. - Proficiency in Java for developing automation scripts and frameworks. - Expertise in designing, developing, and maintaining automated UI tests using Selenium WebDriver. - Solid experience in automating RESTful API tests and understanding of HTTP methods, status codes, and data formats. - Strong understanding of software testing methodologies, tools, and processes. - Experience with version control systems, preferably Git. - Familiarity with integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines. - Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with strong communication and interpersonal abilities. This job description provides a high-level overview of the role of an Automation QA Engineer. You will also have the opportunity to work with other programming languages, knowledge of performance and security testing principles, familiarity with containerization technologies, experience with cloud platforms, understanding of microservices architecture, and experience with defect tracking and test management tools. If you are a person with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to apply for a career opportunity, please review Accessibility at Citi.,