Staff Engineer, QA Automation

REQUIREMENTS:

• Total Experience 7+ years.
• Strong experience in software testing, including experience in automating test cases for web applications.
• Hands on experience in Java, Python, or JavaScript.
• Expertise in writing SQL queries.
• Strong experience in testing frameworks and tools such as Selenium, Cypress, TestNG, JUnit, Appium, Espresso, Postman, Rest Assured, and JMeter.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD concepts and best practices, including build and source control automation tools like Jenkins, Git, and MS Azure DevOps.
• Good experience in test automation, mobile testing, TDD, BDD, functional testing, SIT, regression testing, performance testing, GUI testing, web service testing, and browser compatibility testing.
• Hands on experience with API/Web Service testing.
• Proficient in communicating and driving technology solutions that support business objectives
• Clarity of thought and strong communication skills to effectively pitch solutions
• Ability to explore and grasp new technologies
• Mentoring your team members in projects and helping them keep up with new technologies
• Empowering the team members to be solution providers and enable a flat environment where everyones point of view is considered, and feedback is encouraged.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Understanding the projects functional and non-functional requirements and the business context of the application being developed. Understanding and documenting requirements validated by the SMEs
• Interacting with clients to identify the scope of testing, expectations, acceptance criteria and availability of test data and environment. Working closely with product owner in defining and refining acceptance criteria.
• Preparing test plan/strategy
• Estimating the test effort and preparing schedules for testing activities, assigning tasks, identifying constraints and dependencies
• Risk management identifying, mitigating and resolving business and technical risks. Determines the potential causes of problems and analyses multiple alternatives.
• Designing and developing a framework for automated testing following the project's design and coding guidelines. Set up best practices for test automation.
• Preparing test reports to summarize the outcome of the testing phase and recommending whether the application is in a shippable state or not
• Communicating measurable quality metrics, with the ability to highlight problem areas and suggest solutions
• Participating in retrospective meetings, helping identify the root cause of any quality related issue and identifying ways to continuously improve the testing process
• Conducting demos of the application for internal and external stakeholders
• Working with team and stakeholders to triage and prioritize defects for resolution
• Giving constructive feedback to the team members and setting clear expectations .