Senior QA Automation Engineer

Job Description

Job Location: KochiTrivandrum Experience 6+ Years Job Purpose Perform automation test activities for a major product platform implementation interacting with client stakeholders, working with cross functional teams, ensuring end-to-end coverage of functional testing, implement test automation frameworks, enabling in sprint test automation for UI as well as backend. Job Description / Duties and Responsibilities Function as the test automation engineer for major product platform implementation, ensuring quality of the application under test. Analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, the ability to see the root of the problem and come up with efficient, creative, and cost-effective solutions. Perform test planning, team coordination, monitoring and control of the testing activities. Ability to communicate findings in both technical and user-friendly language. Participate in customer calls, the requirement gathering exercises, sprint planning / grooming sessions, sprint review etc. as needed. Work experience with projects having in sprint test automation. Knowledge of different automation testing tools and expertise in Cypress and TestRail. Work in close liaison with customer and development teams for co-ordination and communications related to the testing activities. Ensure that the stories are verified for accuracy of acceptance criteria and is tested as per the sprint plan to enable early validation and prevent defect leakage to production. Monitor the project from process and quality standpoint and alert the project manager about the deviations/risks at the earliest. Track the quality metrics and initiate proactive interventions with customer and development teams to improve the metrics. Efficient reporting of the test metrics to client stakeholders reflecting the accurate information on the status and quality of the product. Should have good working knowledge of agile processes and DevOps processes specifically regarding testing. Interact with client stakeholders to understand the testing needs as per product requirements, quality gating criteria, strategies to realize the test outcomes, enable test automation. Perform test planning activities for each sprint and ensure the team can complete testing as per the test strategy defined. Perform in sprint test automation for feature delivery in alignment with dev cycles by enabling required process modelling and mitigating challenges. Ensure that the defined test approach is followed, and the tasks are completed as planned in the sprint. Raise any risks encountered. Collaborate with rest of the team to ensure that the stories get tested as soon as the development is complete as per the sprint plan. Perform test reporting like test progress report, summary report, quality metrics etc. and keep the project team posted on the testing progress. Participate in periodic review of the testing process and the deliverables created. Suggest process improvements needed. Identify and implement technical innovations that adds value and improve the engineering processes including AI adoption. Ability to quickly adapt and learn new tools and follow best practices in the industry. Frequently connect with the testing team and support them in addressing any concerns or issues that they are facing in the project. Job Specification / Skills and Competencies Automation Testing Implementation of test automation frameworks Functional & Product Testing Experience In sprint Test automation experience UI & API based test automation Experience on Cypress & TestRail Test Reporting and KPIs Client interfacing skills Agile & DevOps Any Additional Information/Specifics The candidate should have excellent communication skills, strong interpersonal skills and be team oriented. Good client interfacing skills. Knowledge of financial domain specifically payments will be an added advantage. Innovative in proposing/Implementing new ideas/processes. Ability to quickly learn and adapt to new testing tools/technology and implement it effectively. To adhere to ISMS policies and procedures.