Senior QA Automation Engineer

Job Title: Senior QA Automation Engineer

Location: Washington, DC

Duration: 6 to 12 Months

Must have skills for Automation Test Engineers (QA):

• We are looking for someone with extensive scripting experience using cucumber and ruby for test automation.

• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines (Bamboo, Jenkins) – 4+ Years

• Experience with REST APIs and tools like Postman, SoapUI – 5+ Years

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design, code, test, debug, maintain, and document software automation;

• Follow established software automation development standards and procedures;

• Support business functions through the development and maintenance of automation framework for applications thereby maintaining quality standards;

• Participate in peer code and design reviews;

• Analyze business and system requirements to design automation plans, develop automation scripts, setting up test Environments, and Analyzing test Results.

• Contribute software automation expertise to multiple projects and ensure that specifications are met;

• Collaborate with development teams and other stakeholders to understand the applications to provide good automation coverage;

• Represent the IT department in terms of software automation development expertise in coordination with other departments;

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Software automation in an agile environment

• 6+ Years Proficient in at least 2 of Java 7+, .NET, Bash, Ruby, or Perl

• 5+ Years Behavior-driven development using Cucumber

• 4+ Years Development frameworks (Spring, Junit, Selenium)

• 5+ Years RDBMS experience (E.g. Oracle, SQL Server, Postgres, etc)

• 4+ Years Experience working with CI/CD pipelines (Bamboo, Jenkins)

• 4+ Years Experience with REST APIs and tools like Postman, SoapUI

• 5+ Years Technical Documentation

Desired Experience:

• Prior experience with Non-relational DBS

• Knowledge of application security concepts

• Experience with agile SDLC

• Experience working with JMeter to automate UI load testing

• Experience with scripting languages

• Experience in Designing/implementing end to end automation frameworks

EDUCATION:

• Bachelor’s degree and/or relevant technical training with certification