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Lead Software Automation Engineer

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Software Engineering
Posted on Friday, May 24, 2024

This QA opening requires a person to test application components, software tools, and utilities required for the operation, maintenance, and control of application, through both manual as well as automated test cases. He/she shall be required to lead the QA activities, under guidance, which includes release planning w.r.t QA, mentoring junior QA resources and regularly pulling out reports to check QA health (test case coverage, maintenance of test cases, etc)

  • Technical Experience:
    • Experience and knowledge with Cloud Infrastructure
    • Experience on product testing in Agile environment; should know the various stages of product release & QA support needed
    • Proficient in C#
    • Experience in API Testing - Understanding of client-server architecture and communication principles.
    • Experience in automating functional test cases - Experience in using UI/API test automation tools & frameworks like Selenium, Protractor, RestSharp, Postman
    • Implementation of continuous testing as part of CI/CD pipeline (ADO or similar tools)
    • Participate in design and code reviews, creates test cases from design/user stories.
    • Develop and implement automation strategies for the right ratio of Unit, API, and GUI tests.
    • Good to have - Experience at automation framework implementation.
  • Experience
    • 12-15 years of total experience in software testing
    • 3-5 years of experience on test automation (UI and API)
    • Good mix of experience on desktop & web applications
  • Essential Duties and Responsibilities
    • Test planning & Design, Test Execution and Reporting
    • Identify potential risks and seek testing approaches to manage that risk.
    • Write tests based on scenarios identified, including exploratory, negative testing.
    • Identify/create test data.
    • Understanding of test cycles and should be proficient on test case identification - Execute the tests in multiple environments as per the plan
    • Log and track defects - Analyse defects with the goal of being isolated and reproducible, and clearly document issues and bugs
    • API and UI testing (manual and automated) - Write and execute automation scripts using framework/tools like Selenium, xunit using C#
    • Use of test management & other components of tools like Azure Devops